And yes, many times age DOES matter; in more ways than the very young are willing to allow.
Nobody,NOBODY, who was little, or who wasn't even born in the late '60s early '70s, will ever really be able to understand what those times were really like. No book and most assuredly no contemporaneous newspaper or magazine, is going to be able to allow someone who didn't live through those years, a true understanding. It was all so visceral; so of the moment and emotional, that the written word is a difficult medium with which to transfer it all; let alone actually being able to find unbiased reportage of it.
Agreed. Maybe the reason we're sort of numb to horrible things now is because we grew up under a cloud of horrible. Sure, we had great music and good drugs, but we still lived in a culture of fear.