They rebelled against their parents, with a little help from peer pressure and the Soviet agents initiating and promoting the anti-war movement.
Captain George Stephen Morrison was the commander of US Naval forces at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that gave the Johnson Administration the justification they needed to enter the Vietnam War.
Absolutely.
Seems pretty spooky to me.
It should.
It's still going on, only the Soviets are long gone, replaced by the RATs.
They rebelled against their parents, with a little help from peer pressure and the Soviet agents initiating and promoting the anti-war movement.
Are you sure about this? Seems pretty spooky to me.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/a_young_clean_cut_jim_morrison_appears_in_a_1962_florida_state_university_promo_film.html
Captain George Stephen Morrison was the commander of US Naval forces at the time of the Gulf of Tonkin Incident that gave the Johnson Administration the justification they needed to enter the Vietnam War.
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I read a book in the 80s by Cyril Scott called “Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages.”
It was interesting, and I don’t recall very much from it, but what I DO recall is his expose of how the Soviets invaded and worked destruction on our nation’s morale by tampering with music.
I also recall the “Folk Music” trends of the time as a kid. Everyone had a guitar or ukulele and sang the songs of Christy Minstrels, Kingston Trio, etc. Some of us kids were singing from one of the song books at the time, and my dad came in and listened to us for a bit. After words of encouragement on how good we sounded, he then proceeded to educate us on how subversive the words were to the paricular song we liked to sing. We doubted it at the time, but when I read the Scott book, the dime dropped. They were very subversive. It became very easy for me to give credit to reports such as those about the musicians of Laurel Canyon as cited above.
The song about which my dad spoke to us was “Little Boxes.”
[Verse 1]
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
There’s a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
[Verse 2]
And the people in the houses
All went to the university
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same
And there’s doctors and lawyers
And business executives
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
[Verse 3]
And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same
[Verse 4]
And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
There’s a pink one and a green one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they’re all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
What Tom Lehrer called “the most sanctimonious song ever written,” “Little Boxes” is a song written in 1962 by the folk singer Malvina Reynolds about the conformist, quick-fix attitudes of middle-class Americans at the time. A university professor, speaking in Time magazine in 1964, famously quipped,
I’ve been lecturing my classes about middle-class conformity for a whole semester. Here’s a song that says it all in 1½ minutes.
From 2005 through to 2008, the song was the theme song for the Showtime original series Weeds, detailing the exploits of suburban drug dealer Nancy Botwin and her clueless, affluent neighbours. The song was covered by numerous different artists on the show, including Regina Spektor, Death Cab For Cutie, Linkin Park, and Walk off the Earth.
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