Y'know, I have ALWAYS hated that song, and disrespected Reynolds for it. Those little boxes and the kids in the university represented the realization of huge dreams by a generation who had come through the Depression and WWII and had worked hard and risked their lives for the opportunities that those little boxes represented - opportunities that in many cases had not existed for prior generations of (my) family. The sneering self-righteousness of that song is just rude and disrespectful of literally millions of people.