Posted on 01/13/2007 6:56:29 PM PST by tobyhill
It seems as though the "generation gap" is alive and well, eh? ;)
I was born in '53 so my early years were filled with playing outside, reading books I loved, and no tv. It was a perfectly wonderful time.
The summer of '68 SEEMED different, somehow..even in a small New England town on the Atlantic...there was something...off. If I could articulate just what it was...I'd write books. Whether it was hormones changing us, or something else- suddenly EVERYTHING seemed less wholesome. Rebellion was in the air, disgust with all we'd grown up loving and respecting was easily seen, in our clothes, our language and our attitudes.
Temptations were everywhere. Why I was so blessed to escape the worst of it I'll never know. But I watched as lifelong friends threw themselves into drugs, anti-war, anti-men, anti-"establishment" shells. I smoked a little pot, dropped a little speed, went to see Jim Hendrix at Boston Garden...but never was a real hippie. I liked showers and clean clothes and my family:)
The ones who critisize our generation, will be critisized in turn by their offspring. We'll see how they deal with those days...
I started watching the thing and immediately changed channels when the characters began their spastic white people dancing routine.
- Cartman
You forgot that they killed ~40 million of their children and their surviving children's children.
I knew that something like that happened but was unsure of the extent of it.
I was 16 years old in 1967. I disliked the hippie weenies then, and I have an overpowering dislike for 'em now. I once pranged an SDS student at college who was shouting in my face and giving the SDS salute.I wish now I had pranged the whole group of them.
Lol, better not be 'us' or I'd run and hide!!
Drive-In-Euthanasia.
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Very clever!
Sadly, though, you just might be able to sell it.
You forgot to mention the breakdown of the family structure with new babies farmed out to strangers.
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