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"Don't trust anyone under 30" makes a lot of sense if you're optimistic that your generation will usher in the Millennium, but that attitude seems a bit silly in hindsight. To be fair to the the Yippies and their cohorts, they got a lot closer to overthrowing the global work machine than anyone post-68, though it's hard to assign blame or praise for inhumanly large historical trends. Ironically, my first anarchist elders were in fact Yippies.

The matter of trust is interesting - who is it that we're trusting? The person that exists now or the person that will exist later? Robert Anton Wilson said "don't trust anyone under 40" and that advice is just as salient in the latter context as "don't trust anyone under 30" is in the former*. Most 20-something anarchists will become 40-something liberals. If you meet an anarchist over 40, you've met an anarchist for life. The volatility that makes youth valuable is the same thing that makes it untrustworthy.

*I guess no one trusts 30-somethings?