[Kenny Bunkport]

The world will be a better place when the '60s generation is dead and gone (and I say that as a Baby Boomer).

[ClaudiusI]

Translation: Kid is playing with matches, sets the house on
fire, almost destroys it. Thanks to swift and patriotic men
and women who recognized a fire when they saw it, and weren't
afraid to try and put it out, the house was saved.
Several years later, the kid says: "I was just playing. It was fun. It was my fault the carpet caught on fire. It was never about setting things on fire, it was just about igniting matches."

[SkyPilot]

I was about 5 years old when I saw the hippies rioting and stinking up the place on television. I told my father:

"Daddy, something is wrong with these people."

[GOP_1900AD]

We.... we..... we..... me...... me..... me.... ad nauseum.

My own memories of (part of) the 60s are scant....

Things like playing in my sand box, in my wading pool, the Easter Bunny ....

CLUE! .... the whole world ain't part of the Loudest Generation!

We were born.....
Born in the.... 60s
[Not in the 50s, like people who write these sorts of narcisistic articles and certain song lyrics!]
;)

[Sonny M]

The 1960's are dead.

The new millennium is about The BACKLASH.

We're not going back to those stinking days, its time for the hippies to take a shower, wash the stink off, hit rehab and GET OVER IT!!!!

[Dead Dog]

BS!

"The 60's" or the half of that generation that actually took part, were not about peace, love, and poetry. They were purely about spreading Marxism by any means possible.

The facade of PEACE was dropped completely in 1974 with the 'nicks cut off funds to a victourious S. Vietnam, and left them exposed to a fully funded Communist Juggernaut with some 19 divisions of massed armor and infantry.

2 Million free, non-liberals died for the 'nicks ideology.

NEVER FORGET.

[230FMJ]

Read Later

[Trampled by Lambs]

Though I came of age in the 70's (Born in '59 - last of the Boomers..), I always thought the 60's were some magical time where everyone got high & got laid and fought for rightous causes. I had great admiration for the hippies and emulated them as much as I could.

Then I grew up.

[Dick Vomer]

ping

[norton]

To those of you who seem fixated on what the 'boomers did wrong...
Just remember that every Vietnam veteran you might praise in passing was also a 'boomer.
As to the music of '67 and '68, a lot of us only heard it in passing and my main recollection went something along the lines of "we gotta get outa this place, if it's the last thing...".

[narby]

The guy's got a point. The early 60's were entirely different from the late 60's.

Vietnam didn't even cook up until 65 or so. And it took until the late 60's for the country to really turn against the war. Check out the movie "Woodstock". Sure, there were some anti-war themes from the performers, who were the real radical ones. But the crowd was there for the music and getting laid in the weeds. They could care less for David Horrowitz's communist revolution. No one showed up for the protests after they ended the draft.

Yeah, the 60's were over the top. And I was too young to do much more than observe from the wings.

But it sure looked like fun if you were 16.

[sageb1]

October 7

When we've finally learned to love

who'll teach us how to hate again?

And what will we begin

to break down first,

our bodies or our friends?

Like cats that claw

amid the chaos of new garbage

will we become adept at hate,

good enough to call ourselves professionals?

Or will we go like gypsy vagabonds

seeking out new targets every night?

~ any guesses?

[peacethroughstrength]

real hippies were POOR!! Today's pseudo/neo/wanna-be hippies have a $30,000 Nissan Pathfinders, $125 Birkenstocks, a $50 tie-dye they bought online and a $200 bag of weed in their pocket. At least Che gave up his wealth and lived with the destitute, these kids couldn't go a week without an ATM card and a cell phone.

[halieus]

Interesting post.

In the words of my mother, a baby boomer, "The rich kids were hippies. I couldn't afford to be a hippie."

[saminfl]

Even if they wern't political (as he claims) they were useful idiots for the left.

[Mr. Silverback]

They misunderstood and they misunderstand, and we can only pity, and fear, what Generation X will turn into from such false messiahs.

He's kidding, right? He thinks our generation treats Jane Fonda's crowd like messiahs? Puh-leeeze!

[Alkhin]

They misunderstood and they misunderstand, and we can only pity, and fear, what Generation X will turn into from such false messiahs.

Thanks for asking how Generation X felt about things and how they were affected by all your 'free love' crap, you stupid pig (I'm aiming that comment at the author, not you Dave123 :D )

I'll call those Free Love People what they are : PIGS. They were PIGS and the policemen PROTECTED their right to be pigs.

If its 'bad' things you fear from us, you have only yourselves to blame. Where were you? What did you do when we needed you? Why didnt you teach us if you thought it so important. Just like that man said "[it was all about] getting laid". Hope it was a good lay for you, Free Love People, cause that's all WE'RE going to remember you guys by.

We have watched.
We have recorded.
WE will teach...and there's NOTHING you Pig Hippie people can do about it.