One of my favorite film monologues is Hunter S. Thompson's Wave Speech from 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.

"San Francisco in the mid-'60s… a sense we were winning… riding a high and beautiful wave."

In 1970, Nixon outlawed psychedelics and shut down research, silencing a movement that questioned authority and sought higher consciousness.

In 1971, he took the United States off the gold standard, unleashing unchecked government spending.

Two moves that severed us from energy, both inner and economic, halting human progress in exchange for control.

The wave did not recede naturally, it was forced back. Nixon's war on drugs was about suppressing dissent, not health. The end of the gold standard was more than economic policy; it enabled perpetual war and financial manipulation.

Thompson saw the sixties as a lost breakthrough, a moment when humanity stood at the edge of something better, only to be dragged back into the machine.

As he brilliantly wrote, that was the moment when the wave finally broke and rolled back.