Posted on 07/30/2007 8:10:20 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime
7/3/07, 2:22 pm EST
It was only a matter of time before Ted Nugent decided to rain on the Summer of Love’s anniversary parade. In an article from today’s Wall Street Journal titled “The * Summer of Drugs,” the notoriously opinionated guitar god took some time off his busy hunting schedule to blame “stoned, dirty, stinky hippies” for “rising rates of divorce, high school drop-outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes.”
* Highlights (including some choice words for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) after the jump:
* On the Summer Of Love: “Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.”
* On Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mama Cass: “I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit.”
* On the hippie movement: “Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.”
* On life as the Nuge: “Clean and sober for 59 years, I am still rocking my brains out and approaching my 6,000th concert. Clean and sober is the real party.”
-- Zachary Weiss
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
I can’t think of much that is NOT the fault of that pathetic generation.
To break it down, Black teachers often were reticent to discipline white students because of the potential for racial outcry. White teachers were in a similar bind with black students, in literal fear of the NAACP and ACLU and a career ending lawsuit.
Miscreants, regardless of race, quickly picked up the cry of "I have equal rights, too!" when they saw someone get away with something they couldn't. Many school systems were too slow to shift or hire the necessary personnel to combat the situation, and for some in that era (often those who needed the firm hand of a mentor they did not get at home--regardless of race) the only effective source of behavioural control was lost.
For many, this planted the seeds of contempt for authority which have contributed to the mess then and today.
The removal of prayer from public schools helped to eliminate the concept that a greater judge, a higher authority exists which all will ultimately answer to, and further undermined behavioural standards for developing children in the '60s and beyond.
But Ladybird got rid of billboards to "Make America Beautiful", the whole time our culture was covered with running open sores.
You've got the question backwards.
Where does someone (Ted Nugent) get off criticizing others for a whole host of moral failures when that person apparently/allegedley engaged in sex with minors (and wrote songs celebrating it), cheated on his wife, and had a child out-of-wedlock?
It's almost like someone making a living off complaining about moral vices & addiction while being a chain-smoker and gambling huge sums of money.
It’s a two way street with the ladies unless you’re talking about Clinton....
I don’t need to be thought how to think, thanks.
Yup! To me, his version of "Little Wing" is proof there is a God.
You mean like Bill Bennett?
Judging solely by the mouthwash comment, the accuracy of your last statement is at least debatable.
Ted should shut up and sing.
“SRV was drunk and stoned and kind of mailed it in for the most part. Based on that experience I pretty much ignored SRV after that.”
SRV was an admitted alcoholic. He then got sober, lived a few more years. Killed in a helicopter crash.
As a relatively young man, the best guitar players in the world recognized him as their peer. B.B. King, Clapton, etc.
Too bad Nugent ignores all the musicians that got clean/sober and now live to make great music, and in many cases to help others.
Clapton would be one of those. He is clearly in a class way above Nugent as an artist. And he has spent a lot of his own money helping other alcoholics/addicts.
http://www.crossroadsantigua.org/website/about/about1.html
“Yup! To me, his version of “Little Wing” is proof there is a God.” re. SRV
However before that, that is what they said about Clapton!!
:)
I was about 15 when it came out and knew exactly what it meant as did everyone else in the generation Ted helped create. I bet you believe he's never caught a contact buzz from the massive amount of smoke blown his way during all his hippie era concerts either? Sometimes you wanna get high...
The truth is, it is the "Greatest," most materialistic generation, that has brought them up. That's who the real culprit is.
It might be worth a discussion. We had such a discussion in Ethics 310. I saw the JFK assassination as some kind of landmark, but others in class each had their own opinion, as they should. The development of the A-bomb and then the H-bomb put a big hurt on philosophy, which was already reeling from WW I and WW II. The failure of philosophy led everyone to propose his own, coherent or not. The Pill was a big one. The drugs were around already, but disgust with the culture/society as it was, was a green light to many.
it’s still selfish and risky for std’s and having a child out of wedlock. There’s very good reasons why we are supposed to be attached for life in marriage before having sex. Women are not a play toy for ourselves and visa-versa...there’s always hell to pay for misusing them. Haven’t you noticed that yet?
One more time…your quote; "Just saying, drug use doesn't automatically make one a talentless loser or socialist.
I took issue with your statement as follows:
1) drug users are/become loosers – Ted did say that, I agree with it, and there is enormous support for that position.
2)drug users are/become tallentless - that is not true and Ted didn’t say that – you did.
3)drug users are/become socialists - that is not true and Ted didn’t say that – you did.
I agree that Ted called drug users loosers. He is right in that regard. You do not need to post for a fourth time that the article is about drug users being loosers; virtually everyone got that point the first time they read it.
You cannot support your assertion that Ted claimed drug users are talentless and/or socialist.
Perhaps the proper topic of discussion should be that drug use causes delusions of persecution and/or paranoia, errors in logical thinking and gaps in reading comprehension.
The word is “LOSER”. ;-)
Although, it could be “looser”, being that they also tend to be sex-obsessed.
Excellent points. ;-)
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