outlook on life. that definitely connected. i saw it with my own eyes. >> i'm one of those, for better or worse, seven years of college down the drain, did it matter when the germans bombed pearl harbor. we could go on and on. i've never put it in a political context the way that you did. i'm going to put something on the screen and read it aloud. you wrote, by 1978, the progressive liberalism that had sustained the counter culture from before the civil rights era to the fall of nixon had started to feel like oppressive doctrine. still, if you were young and in college, you had to subscribe to it, didn't you? "animal house" said you didn't and you didn't have to mean it at all. the movie fed into frustration with an overbearing political correctness, the fear that you couldn't say what you wanted to without stepping on someone's toes. you're here to argue this was the beginning of what kind of an era? >> i would say to me -- and you can put too much weight on it,