Thank you for posting this. Times were more innocent just 40 short years ago and it is so easy to forget.
Of course, Hobsbawm blames Capitalism for all the ills of the 20th century. The sexual revolution, as destructive as it has been and continues to be, was but one barb of many attacks on the family, and those attacks comprising one prong of attack on “the establishment.”
The plan, by the communists/socialists/collectivists, was to destroy the established culture so that, in the vacuum that would ensue, they could come to power.
So Hobsbawm, the “distinguished historian” like most revisionists, contradicts himself even before he’s out of the gate.
Lady, you wrecked a LOT more than just the lives of some gullible girls, you also helped to bring about the demographic demise that will very possibly take down Western Society (and Asian, for that matter). As we’re seeing with Islam, where the males dominate, the society thrives (in an evil way, in their case...but they are growing and expanding...we are shriveling).
Abortion for instance is purely a creation of the pre-boomer generations, it was 1984 before every boomer was even old enough to vote in a presidential election, they had nothing to do with legislation and Supreme Court decisions and government, and institutions until long after feminism and abortion.
Here are the NOW founders at their forming in 1965, that was the year when boomers ranged in age from 1 to 19, no one in this photo is that young.
Very truthful article, but a hard sell—and not just with the left. Some of the uglier facets of the sexual revolution get plenty of support among self-described conservatives.
We now live in a tawdry and sad society. People are so busy having "fun" that they seem oblivious to how unhappy they are. Of course, this becomes a cycle: their unhappiness drives them to have "fun", the degradation of the "fun" makes them unhappy, so they go do it again, hoping to feel better.
We let go of God and lost our compass.
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Who knew it would create so many cat owners?
I read other articles about Martin Amis and his sister. Alas, the third of Kingsley Amis’s golden imps suffered a sad fate. However, I think he’s letting his Dad off lightly. She was sadly neglected by her father so she bounced from one abusive relationship to another and she inherited her father’s curse of alcoholism. I really cannot see how her life would have turned out differently if, for instance, she had lived in the age of Dickens or Boswell.
You can’t finger the sixties for this one. It would have happened in any era.
As for Suri, I’ve read in other blogs that she nagged her mother into letting her wear those high heels.
In which case, that should give us a real reason to pound Katie Cruise (nee Holmes) for not exerting her maternal authority (can only lead to trouble).
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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment
Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”
I am 43 and I despise what the 60s generation did to my generation. They tore up all the maps of the society and said, “ look we freed you”!
Well, maybe we liked those maps, who asked you to tear them up? Thanks for nothing D!ck heads.
I am not Catholic, but this was predicted by this excellent document in 1968.
Humanae Vitae - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Paul VI on the regulation of birth, 25 July 1968. A must read for everyone at least once.
“it has been wrecking the lives of women ever since”
Starting with the women created because of it.
“...dismissed as prudes suffering from a permanent moral panic-attack.”
And it has so captured the public that even “conservatives” declare the same things.