Steve Martin on Flower Power

From his memoir Born Standing Up, Steve Martin gives the World's Greatest Description of Aquarius:

What we discussed was the new zeitgeist. I don't know how it got to this bedroom in Aspen, but it was creeping everywhere simultaneously. I didn't yet know its name but found out later it was called Flower Power, and I was excited to learn that we were now living in the Age of Aquarius, an age when at least astrologically, the world would be taken over by macrame. Anticorporate, individual, and freak-based, it proposed that all we had to do was love each other and there would be no more wars or strife. Nothing could have been newer or more appealing. The vast numbers of us who changed our thoughts and lives for this belief proved that, yes, it is possible to fool all of the people some of the time. The word "love" was being tossed around as though only we insiders knew its definition. But any new social philosophy is good for creativity. New music was springing up, new graphics, twisted and swirled as if on LSD, and an older generation was being glacially inched aside to make room for the freshly weaned new one.

--p. 85-86