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Originally Posted by gunnut
I agree with you. We don't actively control the minds of the younger generation. We are not capable of doing so. However, we have a system that can deal with the materialism and the quick changing minds of the youths...most of the times. The hippy movement of the 1960s was when the west lost the control over the youths and the society changed fundamentally.
China doesn't have a good control over materialism yet. It's entirely new to the communist regime. The party bosses are the first to benefit and as a result the system is corrupt. They deal with this issue by encouraging nationalism. And of course nationalism can easily turn on its master.
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The epiphanies provided by mood altering drugs such as LSD, opiates and good marijuana are astonishing to the unprepared mind. Combine those moments in time with a bit of propaganda stating your inherited culture is wrong, something most adolescents are prone to anyway, and you have many converts for life.
The west wont recover from the 'hippie' revolution till they're dead, and even then you've got their kids.