...How and why did this all happen?
They rebelled against their parents, with a little help from peer pressure and the Soviet agents initiating and promoting the anti-war movement.
They also gave us, "women's lib" "black power" "queer rights" "God is dead" and a whole host of other "identity politics" programs, designed to divide and conquer our fairly cohesive American society...it worked.
They also took over "education", "the media" many churches, and the entertainment industry.
We may have bankrupted the Soviet Union by forcing them to overspend on their military budget (Star Wars) but they definitely won the Cold War.
Why were many of these future stars sons and daughters of the military/intelligence complex and extreme privilege who just happened to all arrive in LA at the same time? From the Lizard King Jim Morrison to Frank Zappa, the Mamas and Papas, the Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, even the Monkees, they all had conspicuous family heritages that did not exactly jive with what would become the free love, anti war soundtrack of a generation...
...How and why did this all happen?
They rebelled against their parents, with a little help from peer pressure and the Soviet agents initiating and promoting the anti-war movement.
They also gave us, “women’s lib” “black power” “queer rights” “God is dead” and a whole host of other “identity politics” programs, designed to divide and conquer our fairly cohesive American society...it worked.
They also took over “education”, “the media” many churches, and the entertainment industry.
We may have bankrupted the Soviet Union by forcing them to overspend on their military budget (Star Wars) but they definitely won the Cold War.
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Exactly