"When I think back to those days, I just have to wonder: how did so many people get so wrong about so much so quickly? I mean, we thought we were better than any people who ever came before us, that we were the next step in the evolution of humanity -- and everything we knew was wrong."
Although I was a bit too young to take part in the 60s, I remembered viewing those people through the lens of a bewildered, neglected child and considering them somewhat exotic. How wrong I was.
Although glad to have survived that era, I might dismiss it as something I simply outgrew. However, I outgrew Barbie dolls too, but I don't feel angry or misled. The 60s leave such a sour taste with me, I have to hit a lot of pillows just to vent out the rage I feel toward this breed of humanity who belonged in a psycho ward and took a lot of others with them.
How sad to see the Sheehan gang attempt a repeat performance. They have all the idiocy of the 60s without the glamor.
Forget Donovan or Jefferson Airplane. What comes to mind is the Who (my favorite band) singing about "teenage wasteland" in their classic album WHO'S NEXT.
"considering them somewhat exotic."
The uniform regulations on Haight Street were as strict as the army's. Even at that time, though, I felt bad about how wounded soldiers from the Praesidio were treated.
Not that the "flower children" had the nerve to insult them directly -- even when they were on crutches.
"I might dismiss it as something I simply outgrew."
Or maybe not. Everything we do becomes baggage.
"but I don't feel angry or misled."
Ahhh, I can't blame anybody else. I should have known better. I was taught better. I just came down with a bad case of "I know everything" and turned my back on my upbringing.
Although, the rhetoric certainly was persuasive -- if you didn't know anything and had no life experience. The most interesting thing to me was the way the attendance at so-called "anti-war" rallies dropped off after they ended the draft. Guess the war was okay if you didn't have to go.
"the rage I feel toward this breed of humanity who belonged in a psycho ward and took a lot of others with them."
I've been ridiculed a few times even on FR for trying to point out the role the KGB played in all that. Don't ever let anybody tell you there weren't both home-grown and imported communists involved, or that the KGB didn't spend a good deal of money making it worse.
"How sad to see the Sheehan gang attempt a repeat performance. They have all the idiocy of the 60s without the glamor."
And without KGB funding.
"Forget Donovan or Jefferson Airplane. What comes to mind is the Who (my favorite band) singing about "teenage wasteland"
Yeah, but you couldn't walk up and down Haight Street without hearing "Somebody to Love" and "Sunshine Superman." Among that crowd, "Magic Bus" was the Who's biggie. Buffalo Springfield, "For What It's Worth," Beatles, "All You Need is Love," Country Joe and the Fish, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." Woodstock was later.