1964: FSM

“I Am a Student! Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate!” read the signs of picketers outside Berkeley's Sproul Hall in 1964, mocking the computer-punchcard treatment the faculty was supposedly giving them. Where earlier student movements had been the work of a lonely (and polite) few, this one swarmed and raged. The Free Speech movement rioters despised the life of “sterilized, automated contentment” that America's “intellectual and moral wastelands” were preparing for young graduates. As Barry McGuire's Eve of Destruction shot to the top of the pop charts, students at Berkeley resolved to “throw our bodies on the gears” to stop the G.I. machine.

Howe, Neil; Strauss, William (2009-01-16). The Fourth Turning (Kindle Locations 3986-3991)

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