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Which Road Did You Come From?, Part One

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In the fall of 1972 it happened. I graduated from college. This wasn’t unexpected and yet I was unprepared. I was not aware that the train of events which I thought of as 'my life' had been running along pre-built tracks: elementary school, middle school, high school, college. I did not realize that once I left the last station, there were no more tracks."

And so I went home to Pasadena to live with my parents. Little did I know I was a trailblazer for the next generations of college graduates who couldn't afford to live independently. How did it work out?

I was a mess, a far cry from the bumptious literature student who matriculated with honors and gave the commencement speech for a graduation ceremony at which he was not graduating.

More than the autobiographical tale of post-graduate anomie, "Which Road" takes you back to the failing and fading counterculture of the 60s -- the generation gap, the alienation from the Establishment, the desire to establish different communities with different values from the prevailing materialism of the culture.

"O brave new world that has such people in it!"

Website: www.shogafilms.com;
Instagram: shoga_films;
Facebook: facebook.com/shogafilms;
Twitter: twitter.com/shogafilms

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In the fall of 1972 it happened. I graduated from college. This wasn’t unexpected and yet I was unprepared. I was not aware that the train of events which I thought of as 'my life' had been running along pre-built tracks: elementary school, middle school, high school, college. I did not realize that once I left the last station, there were no more tracks."

And so I went home to Pasadena to live with my parents. Little did I know I was a trailblazer for the next generations of college graduates who couldn't afford to live independently. How did it work out?

I was a mess, a far cry from the bumptious literature student who matriculated with honors and gave the commencement speech for a graduation ceremony at which he was not graduating.

More than the autobiographical tale of post-graduate anomie, "Which Road" takes you back to the failing and fading counterculture of the 60s -- the generation gap, the alienation from the Establishment, the desire to establish different communities with different values from the prevailing materialism of the culture.

"O brave new world that has such people in it!"

Website: www.shogafilms.com;
Instagram: shoga_films;
Facebook: facebook.com/shogafilms;
Twitter: twitter.com/shogafilms

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