Reader Eric points out in response to my post on the OWS encounter with reality:

While I love the irony of the Occupy Wall Street crowd having to learn for themselves the necessity of that against which they rail, it is just another example of history, rather than being one thing after the other, actually being the same thing over and over again. In the Electric Acid Kool-Aid Test, Tom Wolfe recognized this type of realization by the counterculture in the Hippies of the 60′s and called it ”the great relearning.” It is as true today as it was then.

They really are just like the hippies of yore!