No matter how much we had talked about rejecting money, business suits, and consumerism when we were seventeen, virtually all of us had immersed ourselves in such waters by the time we reached the age of twenty-five. A combination of cynicism, 'sensibleness,' and disillusionment conspired to relieve us of our collective dreams of living in some new and different, better world. Instead, we wound up inheriting the very world we had initially refused as corrupt, immoral, insane.

Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (2011), Acknowledgments