Posted on 11/25/2012 2:47:21 PM PST by DustyMoment
Any “revolution” was for activists and political junkies, and people moving up in society, like college students and others who wanted to run a country and institutions, to takeover things, to replace people who ran things.
The old Mother Earth News was about how to rediscover doing and making things yourself, it was not political, and it included guns.
Tom, a welcome surprise to find any posting about jazz on FR - even better to find an informed view. Thanks.
Above his pay scale ?
By the way, Bill Ayers isn’t a boomer, he is the silent generation, as were just about every person of the 1960s who names are known.
If you want to see “silent generation” (born 1925 to 1945)leadership, then start running the birth dates of the famous counter culture figures, bands, musicians, activists, etc, of the 1960s and early 1970s, when boomers Sarah Palin and Obama, were little kids.
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Oh come, Ansel.
So I missed on Bill Ayers by a few years (or rather his parents did).
You know precisely the group of recent and present-day radicals I am referring to (they are UBIQUITOUS, in the media, in Hollywood, in the academy, in Washington) who were born post-war and who, for that matter, have been instrumental in setting the stage for Barack Obama. Do you suppose David Axelrod was weaving baskets in 1960? Cornell West? Katrina Van Den Heuval?
If you want to define “hippie” narrowly enough to include only you and Euell Gibbons, that’s fine by me. I meant to cast no aspersions on any fetish of yours.
It seems obvious to me that the ratio of your brand of hippie vs. the stereotypical long-haired maggot-infested Haight Ashbury burn-out would be almost identical to the number of present-day farmers’ market entrepreneurs who supported Palin as opposed to those who thrall for Obama.
I don’t know what set you off, or made you angry, but I didn’t realize that we were in some sort of fight.
Evidently you have something else on your mind than what I thought we were posting on.
By the way, those people you mentioned are establishment people, not hippies.
“The old Mother Earth News was about how to rediscover doing and making things yourself, it was not political, and it included guns.”
And don’t forget the Whole Earth Catalog. I still have a couple of copies of it. Collector’s items by now. Buckminster Fuller, et al.
I have a couple of copies also, along with boxes of the early M. E. News, and some old Firefox series books, and a big collection of Backwoods Home, although I let my subscription expire.
Some of the original Mother Earth News people helped found Backwoods Home magazine, it is excellent, and I will resubscribed at some point.
By the way, I have an artist friend who Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller visited out of the blue, Fuller landed a helicopter in his yard, which was pretty impressive in the early 1960s.
Why do you say that? What about the 60s suck?
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . . . . . . . . .
Oh, you were serious!
Son, I’d love to have this discussion with you, but I am not going to waste either my time or JimRob’s bandwidth.
I will correct a point you made about Vietnam - we didn’t lose. On the day after the TET Offensive, Walter Cronkite went on TV, looked America straight in the face and lied.
He told America that we had lost the Tet Offensive and, as a result, the Vietnam War. The fact is that the opposite was true. We won the Tet Offensive but Cronkite had a political disagreement with Lyndon Johnson and he took it out on us.
Decades later, many north Vietnamese generals wrote their biographies and acknowledged that we beat them so badly during Tet that they were on the verge of capitulation . . . . . . . until they heard Walter Cronkite’s newscast. Cronkite (NOT a Boomer!) is single-handedly responsible for that war being dragged on for another 7 years and for the death or mutilation of untold American young men and women as well as Vietnamese women and children.
As for your “touchy-feely” comment, you don’t know me and aren’t qualified to judge me or any other Boomer. I’ll leave the judging up to God.
And, tes, I AM a disabled Vietnam vet. Just thought you might like to know so you can hate me that much more. Enjoy your hatred.
Son, I’d love to have this discussion with you, but I am not going to waste either my time or JimRob’s bandwidth.
I will correct a point you made about Vietnam - we didn’t lose. On the day after the TET Offensive, Walter Cronkite went on TV, looked America straight in the face and lied.
He told America that we had lost the Tet Offensive and, as a result, the Vietnam War. The fact is that the opposite was true. We won the Tet Offensive but Cronkite had a political disagreement with Lyndon Johnson and he took it out on us.
Decades later, many north Vietnamese generals wrote their biographies and acknowledged that we beat them so badly during Tet that they were on the verge of capitulation . . . . . . . until they heard Walter Cronkite’s newscast. Cronkite (NOT a Boomer!) is single-handedly responsible for that war being dragged on for another 7 years and for the death or mutilation of untold American young men and women as well as Vietnamese women and children.
As for your “touchy-feely” comment, you don’t know me and aren’t qualified to judge me or any other Boomer. I’ll leave the judging up to God.
And, yes, I AM a disabled Vietnam vet. Just thought you might like to know so you can hate me that much more. Enjoy your hatred.
Freaks just like you you baby boomer!
What do you mean? Most of all of the famous names associated with the 1960s youth culture, were of the silent generation.
Born in 37 and never even heard of beatniks until after the hippies of the 50s became predominate.
There sure wern’t any such creeps in So. California!
I meant 60s.
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