see, there isn't a left-right criticism here. it isn't even really a criticism of drug culture, per se. it's more of a criticism of the groupthink that comes with hyper-commercialism - which was really the basis of what we call the 60s "counter-culture". it's consequently some kind of an anti-capitalist critique. what frank was able to see was that the so-called "counter-culture" was really just expressing the same value systems that the dominant culture was. it was just a type of fashion, and, as such, was firmly rooted in capitalist values. that's what he's mocking here - the reality that the supposed revolutionaries of the period were just all about buying into something.

i've pointed this out before: it categorizes zappa properly as the definitive proto-punk.