[Cicero]

Nostalgie de la boue.

[Dallas59]

Yuck.

[RichInOC]

"How many of you are on acid right now?" rock critic Joel Selvin asked an audience of former hippies who turned out this past week to mark the 40th anniversary of the Human Be-in, the counterculture event that unofficially launched the Summer of Love. "How many of you are on antacid right now?"

Power scooters to the people, right on.

[kcvl]

Joel Selvin

[Theresawithanh]

"Over the years, probably a dozen people have come up to me and said 'You guys were fantastic!' I say 'We weren't there,'" laughed David Getz, drummer for Big Brother and the Holding Company, the Janis Joplin-fronted band that was not on the lineup the day of the Be-In. "And they say 'No, I saw you!' Maybe they did."

*Snicker*! Guess their motto would be I was there in the '60s, but I don't really remember much about it...

[Kimmers]

Does depends come in tie-dye?

[Lizavetta]

the 40th anniversary of the Human Be-in

In other words, a celebration of self-absorbtion.

What a worthy cause.......NOT.

[skr]

An era that celebrated stupidity, sloth and wastefulness, as well as the other deadly sins.

[SamAdams76]

Fortunately 1984 was the apex of all that 60s nostalgia. In fact, I think 60s nostalgia officially jumped the shark with that overwrought and unwatchable The Big Chill movie.

Now the 1960s is a distant memory. In fact, old people reminiscing about the 1960s is as pathetic today as it must have sounded to the hippies back then when older folk were yapping about the 1920s!

[WorkingClassFilth]

I've waited for this moment for a long, long time. Nothing as ironic as the aging and demise of the youth g-g-generation. Heh, heh, heh.

There's still time to get in on the ground floor of my sure fire money maker: Drive-In-Euthanasia. The way I've got it figured, the X&Y kids take the folks to the facility. There, roller skating, mini-skirted attendants put Mom and Dad into a luxury SUV of choice and serve a last high cholesterol meal of cheeseburgers or pizza with a mega dose of psychoactive pharmaceuticals in the soft drinks. Meanwhile, groovy tunes are pumped into the car through minispeakers and a psychedelic trip projected onto the outdoor screen to relive g-g-generational high times until they flatline. Illegal aliens remove the deceased (doing jobs Americans won't do) and chuck them into dumpsters where they'll be picked-up and later converted into soylent green for the family pet.

What a drag it is getting old, but there's good money in it.

[A.Hun]

[Thrownatbirth]

old people reminiscing about the 1960s is as pathetic today

Ah, that would be your Senate Dems.

[wildcatf4f3]

yawn

[woofie]

[Cogadh na Sith]

Like other panelists, O'Donnell and Getz remembered the Human Be-In as both the beginning and the end, an event that would be much duplicated but never equaled.

Yeah, yeah.... The baby boomers invented sex, drugs, rock and 'events'. Nothing will ever, ever equal them--ever!

I dunno... I was born in '68: It just looks like a lot of privileged young $h!ts that became rotten old bastards.

[gcruse]

" Bodies that writhed with wild abandon when a guru invited them to "Turn on ... tune in ... drop out'

Well, not really; we just gathered together and got baked. Someone's been watching too many of Jane Fonda's early movies.

[Candor7]

A Selfish, egocentric generation of spoiled middle class brats, whose only heritage will be treason and sedition of their own nation.

They are a disgrace to the nation, and their greatest achievement was to put a barbarian and his megalomanic wife into power, BJ Clinton, a sex addict, and his power hungry witch wife, Hitlery, and are now are pushing for more of the same. May we have a civil war before we allow these propogandized, jingoistic, iconoclasts to influence the selection of our president and majority power in Congress.

In addition to their ideological morass, they also created the sexual revolution that resulted in AIDS and HIV. Their curse runs so deep that they have brought about a malicious denegration of the human genome through this disease, which they seem to increasingly celebrate , as they try to move the nation into gay marriage, gun control, and the legalization of otherwise banned drugs. A pox , on every last one of the uncivilized sodomites, before our nation becomes a modern Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Historix]

I don't remember the 60's because I wasn't born until 1980. Thankfully, my first memories of social things was Ronaldus Magnus and people trying to free themselves of the chains of the counterculture. My perspective of these sorts is that these are the people who will complain that the rich and well-to-do do not serve in Iraq but likely took measures to evade the draft during Vietnam because they were lucky enough to be in college. I was sickened by how professors at school made a group of malcontents into heroes. The love generation were the selfish offspring of those who saved the world in WWII. Their freedom assured, they found the time to question the nation that has freed more people, saved more lives and offered opportunity to more people than any other nation to exist on Earth.

[word_warrior_bob]

I hate hippies

[Volunteer]

Hippies -

I mean this in the nicest possible way....

you people almost destroyed our Nation last time out, you seem hell-bent on trying to do it this time. So, please just die already.

Generation Paying For Your Excesses