Race to the bottom

Race to the bottom

If you know who Lenny Bruce is, you’re old. You’re either a boomer or a member of the cohort that is now blamed for blowing it in the ’60s, despite the warning from Peter Fonda’s character in Easy Rider. Or you’re one of their children, a Gen Xer who resents the parental grip on family assets and public office while sharing your parents’ reverence for the ’60s. Boomers remember Bruce as a foul-mouthed stand-up comedian, the Abbie Hoffman of the …