Afx: The hot spot for the “intelligentsia” when I was in high school was the Bijou Theater in downtown Palo Alto (right down the road from Stanford University). It showed art house films and offered these great political and social discussions featuring Djarum smoking, Benetton clad, BMW and Benz driving bougie white kids discussing the evils of capitalism and how to “fight the power”.

I don’t think it dawned on any of them that they were the very power they were planning on fighting.

As Pogo so aptly put it: “We have met the enemy and he is us”.