[wasp69]

You know, sir, I am not young myself, and made a lot of really bad mistakes in my life, but when looking at others who grew up at the same time I did (the infamous "Baby Boomer" generation), who had adopted, vigorously and enthusiastically, the "hippie culture," it just seems that despite some of these pretty massive mistakes I made, I have fewer, or no, regrets. Things happen.

You have no regrets about the world you helped to create that I grew up in and am now trying to roll back for my own children?

Am I mistaken in my interpretation?

[franksolich]

No, no, no, no, no; you misunderstand, sir.

We all make mistakes, some of them real doozies, and I have made my fair share of them.

One mistake however I DID NOT make was to join the hippies, embrace the New Age of the Aquarium, whatnot. One supposes I was too much of a "free spirit," or individualist, to conform with many of my peers (not all of us conformed; I am sure there are some FReepers who did not)--being a "hippie" was the ultimate, the maximum, Conformity.

To make this world a better place for those coming after us, I held fast; I was voting Republican and conservative long before voting Republican and conservative reflected the "majority" opinion. There were not many Republicans and conservatives being elected during the 1970s, but they all got my vote.

I was merely speaking of mistakes of a personal, and not a social, nature; those mistakes for which only I had to pay (later), not others.