Posted on 09/29/2005 6:19:24 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
"It was the age of selfishness. It was the age of self-indulgence. It was the age of anti-authority. It was an age in which people did all kinds of wrong things."
- Ed Meese III, U.S. Attorney General, Reagan Administration
"It was absolutely exhilarating. It was the greatest time to be alive ever, for sure."
- Charles Kaiser, Author/Historian
The large youth group in the liberal church of my childhood did a touring performance of JCSS. I never heard the Gospel, nor read my Bible in my 2 year association with that particular segment of organized r-e-l-i-g-i-o-n.
Personally, I blame the parents. Great lack of discipline there.
It's the real thing!
I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
It floats! (Volkswagen)
Hardly...your "soccer moms", etc., didn't come along for another 15 years.
You got it. A hateful, vengeful, ugly, nasty scar on our country. A lot of trouble makers wondering around like the world owed them a living. they hated their parents but still managbed to live at home and take advantage of the love their parents still had for them. Hypocrites all. I'm like you. Nothing in that time is worth anything.
I could go on.
No, compared to what we have today, I'd take the 60s any day!
The Sixties were the party, the Seventies were the hangover from the party, the Eighties and afterwards were people who went to the party wincing at the stupid stuff they'd done that night.
Every decade shaped a generation. Most of the rest had a better result. Big deal.
"I graduated from high school in 1966"
So did I ! The 50's were my favorite time. The cars, the music, the styles.
Good summation. There were also a lot of poseurs who dressed or acted like activists/hippies, the same sheep types you have in any decade who follow whatever fad is in vogue. They had few convictions, even less knowledge and followed the crowd--one reason demonstrations grew larger year after year.
As a member of that generation, I get surprised looks if I tell someone I was not at Woodstock, not in the demonstrations and didn't do dope. In fact, I voted for Nixon both times and wouldn't change either ballot.
The anger and fear is from dealing with the Viet Nam War and the attendant demonstrations and media propoganda.
I have been in dormotories where people were paralyzed by the thought that their boyfriends might be drafted. I saw demonstrations in Berlin after Bobby Kennedy was assasinated, and the Berlin police used firehoses and clubs on the crowd. I had friends in the 1968 riots in Chicago. One girl I graduated with was arrested by Interpol because her boyfriend conned her into smuggling hash into Canada.
If you remember happier times, you have to be a few years younger than I and unaware of what was happening.
Hitting the nail on the head... I had no idea the sacrifices my parents had mad until I had to make them myself... in a much smaller proportion.
Problem is, a lot of the puss from the festering boil is still with us.
Most of the MSM, Kerry, the Clintons, Al Gore, etc., etc, etc.
The devil made me do it.
{Just watched a Flip Wilson marathon on TV Land) It was so politically incorrect. Brought back a lot.
Oh, you mean like this guy?
Guilty, overcompensating parents?
The peiord of the early 60's was crap too. You were just too young to have noticed. I graduated from HS in '56 and lived in Berkeley during the late 50's and '60s first as a UC student, then as the wife of a student, and finally as a young mother of four.
We took our children and fled in 1968 when we couldn't take any more crap from demonstrators. They made the town impossible to live in and impossible to raise children in. First we moved to a neighboring town often ridiculed as a "white Republican enclave" by the media intelligentsia and ultimately to Texas when we could no longer stand what was going on in California.
My husband was caught one day in a stand off between rioting demonstrators and the National Guard with rifles to their shoulders just because he tried to deposit his pay check in the local bank. (I moved the bank account the next day.)
Another time I got caught in the middle of a "march" because I had chosen a route around campus and the unwashed spewed profanities at me as they pounded the back and sides of my station wagon as I tried to drive down the street to the grocery store. I had my youngest child with me and I was petrified.
Every night windows were broken and fires set along main street. Usually these people were whipped into a frenzy over silly things -- such as a vacant lot owned by the Universitiy and slated for a dormitory. Somehow the unwashed decided that it should be "Peoples Park" where they could camp and smoke dope, and copulate and defecate and urinate without restriction.
They rioted and paraded for years over that vacant lot until the University finally gave in and gave it to them. The hippies had no prior claim on this land. There had been a couple of houses on it which the University had purchased and razed with the intent of providing more University housing, always in short supply. for a while they grew communal gardens there (which always were a disaster), and it was abandoned and all grown up in weeds the last time I saw it. Disgusting.
Anybody who thinks the 60s was a glamorous period either didn't live it, or lived it in a drugged haze. It wasn't pretty then, and I hold no fondness for it now.
I didn't say the 60's were a time of sweetness and bliss...I just happen to think they were far more exciting than the times we're experiencing now.
You had a friend demonstrating in Chicago?
Sheesh...are you still close?
All levity aside, I didn't think (even in my youth) that punishing overt lawlessness was unreasonable.
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