On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, James A. Donald wrote:
SNIP In "austin powers", they make the spy sound sixties by depicting him as expecting the victory of the Soviet Union, and perhaps rather favoring that outcome. If they had him quote Ayn Rand, he would not have sounded sixties.
When the mass media want to cash in on nostalgia for the sixties and early seventies, it is the young commies they remember.
That's because the sixties commies sold out as quickly as they could when they were no longer threatened with compulsory military service. The sixties commies are the worst of the "how much is enough" crowd out there whipping slave kids harder to make more nikes and gap clothing. The folks doing the heinlen/randian ranting haven't sold out yet.