So what if the original Woodstock had drugs, sex, and nudity. A lot of the people came out of it unscathed and still led productive lives.
This is precisely why the Right continues to get its ass kicked in the arts and culture. This stick-up-the-butt attitude. Even conservatives like Ann Coulter and Andrew Wilkow are metal fans and still head-bang at concerts.
Woodstock was badly needed. The 60s were such as turbulent decade. No wonder why everybody mellowed out in the 70s.
Ann Coulter likes metal?
Freegards
“had drugs, sex, and nudity. “
I was only 10 years old at the time but a few years later I was into all of that.
“So what if the original Woodstock had drugs, sex, and nudity. A lot of the people came out of it unscathed and still led productive lives.”
And I bet even more came out scathed, including many that didn’t physically attend but were influenced by its glorification and romanticization. We’re paying a huge societal price with the lax drug culture, “free love” and tolerance of irresponsible behavior.
I’m not saying we should return to puritanism, only that excesses are bad on both sides of the spectrum.
I suppose where you draw the line is what politics is all about. Right now, I’m for drawing that line quite a bit to the right of where we are.
the only turbulance of the 60’s was self created by the silver spoon first generation of the WW2 vets...the pampered first and second born who could do no wrong ....at least in my family....the first two got all the stuff and the rest of us just survived.....to this day , those first two are short sighted closed minded liberals...
Conservatives tend to believe the teachings of the Bible, so they are not likely to embrace hedonism. They may for a season, but will ultimately reject sinful behavior. Conservatives may like the music of Janis Joplin or CSNY, but they are not likely to pursue the recreational drug or free love culture.