ON: Counter-Culture

I wish I knew some priests who looked like Karl Malden and taught the kids in the neighborhood how to box.  This is too many movies and having been raised without religion. 
I know there is a shallow and spiteful conservative streak in me from having no foundation of others' conservatism to question in life; no belief system to work out an opposition to.

I craved order.  It showed itself in an immediate and visceral distaste for counter-culture; reasoning that counter-culture is square, that counter-culture can only exist by the obscene success of the culture they counter, and the would-be counterists I knew seemed less like they fought the power, and more like the beneficiaries.  I was poor.  I rooted for soulless rubes in movies.