[Blind Eye Jones]

Well if you trace the sixties back you can see the influence of the German immigrants — mostly professors escaping the Nazis — who brought Nietzsche, Weber and Freud to unsophisticated America. Nietzsche was always the darling of artists and the self obsessed. But relativism and secularism goes back to the beginnings of philosophy and Greek culture. Socrates was put to death for not believing in the city's Gods (he preferred Reason over Revelation) and there where many sophists in Athens who believed in relativism. Plato addresses the problem in a number of dialogs — the most famous perhaps is Protagoras, who states “man is the measure of all things.”

[Paved Paradise]

You are making MY point. I am sick and a little weary of people trying to trace “every problem under the sun” back to the boomers. I know a lot of bad stuff came out of the 60’s but it was not invented by boomers and many never embraced the lies of the 60’s. However, as you state yourself, these ideas are not new. Certainly a lot of the boomers were brainwashed by the colleges they attended and those profs were no boomers, my friend.

As a side note, the Jesus movement started in the 60’s as well and took on full steam in the early 70’s. That was a good thing.

[GoLightly]

Well if you trace the sixties back you can see the influence of the German immigrants

Boy, have you got that right. I don't think there is any city in the nation with more German influence than Milwaukee, up until the Mid-Western "Rust Belt" decline of industry in "America's machine shop" & the emigration following the loss of a lot of the city's big employers to parts in the South.

The first Socialist sent to the House of Representatives (Victor Berger) was from Milwaukee, a city that had a Socialist mayor (Frank Zeidler) who served three terms from 1948 to 1960.