I can't tell if you mean "eventually they graduate and carry the new ideas into the world" or if you mean "eventually they graduate and buy into into the system and turn into drones like the greasers, hippies, and punks all did."

I meant the former, but I suppose both are true.

And it's not like we haven't seen the same pattern before with the Weather Underground. (I do feel obligated to acknowledge that I was one of those people on the "just in the universities" train 5 years ago, so I'm not accusing anyone of a mistake I haven't made myself.)

I feel like I'm out of the loop on this. Could you elaborate?

The Weather Underground was founded by students from the University of Michigan, who spent their college years arguing that people should violently resist the government. When they graduated, they didn't moderate out of these ideas; they doubled down, started an organized bombing campaign, and successfully hit targets including Capitol Hill and the Pentagon.

Insane. I didn't know about any of that, though I did think you were referring to the api and didn't know about the name's origin.

But those were the chic kind of terrorist, not like the Jan. 6 crowd.

Unlike the Jan 6 crowd, they actually killed people.