People who work for a living have known about Stanley and Thermos vacuum bottles for over a hundred years. Now some brightly colored models have caught the attention of the internet with predictable results. The company is wisely encouraging the madness while the opportunity persists. This too shall pass.
If the hippies are the “second generation of Cultural Marxists” then who were the first? Beatniks? The 60’s counter-culturists were way too busy turning on and dropping out to be getting advanced degrees. At least beatniks of the Silent Generation were intellectuals but neither of those groups make up a significant portion of today’s faculties. They are both too old. You will have to look to later generations to lay your blame.
The ugly one is the only one most of us have a shot with. Time to find another bar.