"I hope I die before I get old," Pete Townshend of the Who wrote in the song "My Generation."
Of course, the ballad of youthful defiance became its opposite.
The youth who once said "don't trust anyone over 30" becoming the establishment, the leaders of media, academics, politics and culture.
Ironic. And an example of Enantiodromia, something becoming its opposite.
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