In the Black 1965-1969: A Satire of the Sixties

In the Black is Ayn Rand on drugs John GaltIf you can remember anything about the Sixties you werent really there. Paul Kantner Jefferson Airplane If ever a period in American history deserved the Catch-22 treatment it is the decade you either love to hate or hate to love: Sex Drugs & Rock n RollA Man on the MoonA Summer of Love The Smell of Napalm in the MorningThe Electric Kool-Aid Acid TestThe FBI vs. The SDSWoodstock vs. AltamontHippies vs. the Silent MajorityFathers vs. SonsThe workers you saw out on the factory floor make money for me...and these learned bastards in here spend it all Y.T. Sr. would always say as he passed through the Engineering Department when hosting a plant tour for a representative of that hallowed stalwart of capitalism known as THE CUSTOMER. I am also of the firm conviction that there comes a time when all engineers should be shot in the head so that production can actually begin.Y.T. Erp Jr. on the other hand cant wait to leave for college at the University of California Berkeley to escape not only the work but especially all the phlegm-brained idiots at his fathers aerospace company.Leaving behind a pregnant auburn-haired cheerleader a sensuous red-headed siren plotting to usurp his familial ties and his two best friends -- one who ends up in Vietnam and the other in the Weather Underground -- his trip on the wild side of the Generation Gap takes him from the psychedelic scene of Haight-Ashbury to the F.B.I.s Ten Most Wanted list.Meanwhile his father is consumed by the task of managing his unmanageable corporate team in the quest to help fulfill a Presidents challenge to land a man on the moon.With cameos by Bill Clinton Neil Armstrong J. Edgar Hoover and Charles Manson.But its the truth even if it didnt happen. ― Ken Kesey