Posted on 09/10/2010 10:24:28 AM PDT by Publius804
Normally, I spend all week researching on the Internet to fact-check data I'll include in my weekly column.
Unfortunately, my router/modem died on me and while I'm awaiting delivery of a new one, I've decided to write this week's essay on a subject that needs no research. It's simply an essay I've written in my head over and over and plan to include it in my future memoir, if I ever get around to it. I'm a child of the '60s but more of a critic because I found the Age of Aquarius to be one big lie.
I well remember the hype about the moon being in the seventh sun and how this would result in an Age of Aquarius - peace and love and all that. Since I'm an Aquarian (Feb. 3), considered at the time to be somewhat of a Bohemian artist, one would think that I'd revel in this enchanting movement, but from the first I found the new age era fraught with hypocrisy, naïveté, and drugs.
In 1969, I was working for an airline and enjoyed the perks of free travel whenever I had free time. That summer I spent traveling throughout Spain and I even overnighted in Tangier, Morocco. Upon my return and back at work, my co-worker Rita, the resident hippie, invited me on a special weekend trip to a rock festival in a town called Woodstock. She and a few friends were traveling upstate in a van and were planning to stay on the field in sleeping bags. It was, she promised, going to be the epitome of peace, love, and rock and roll.
The truth is that I had very little in common with my fellow co-workers who, coming from a middle-class background, took many blessings for granted.
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Ping!
“Half a million people showed up in D.C. on Aug. 28th to hear Glenn Beck pray for our nation to return to God. They left the mall spotless. Maybe the Age of Aquarius begins now.”
Good contrast but.........naw
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There was an Age of Aquarius, then there was the Harmonic Convergence. And some in between. Apparently the upcoming world changing event is the 2012 thing.
When the true history of the sixties get written, we will probably learn that many of those stirring up trouble on college campuses were Soviet agents.
I was there. Most of them were crappy students who preferred raising hell to studying.
Of course, the majority were as you say. But perhaps you noticed one graduate student who didn’t do that much studying but always had time to chair meetings planning the next demonstration. Or perhaps someone came into town just before a big demonstration who claimed to be with the “Campus Antiwar Coordinating Committee” or something and was just there to offer “strategic advice”?
Could it have been possible thatthe graduate student’s real name was Ivan and the visitor was reallly Boris? It would take just a few people with fake identities and access to a huge amount of resources to turn what would have been a small campus demonstration into a campus shutdown. The agents would just be there to goad on the students.
On campus I knew a couple - maybe more - who were open and gleeful Communist true believers. Covert agents would have been redundant. In higher levels of those organizations you cite, though, the presence of covert agents is no longer even questionable. You bet they were there. And from the point of view of the Soviets they did a terrific job.
That was only one venue, the conservation movement got hijacked into environmentalism, and some of the most prominent groups got seed money from the KGB.
“Most of them were crappy students who preferred raising hell to studying.”
Sounds like every “college” class since.
1 time, a long time ago, “collegiate” meant honorable and classy, never mind the academic thing. Now I think of nothing much but bottom-feeder drunkard rioting dregs of society.
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