Posted on 08/05/2017 9:02:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I’m a baby boomer yet I was in 2nd Grade in 1967.
Sent on two different missions of madness.
Fighting the negative (communism) without the positive (robust Christian ideas of freedom) was a vain enterprise.
You romanticize what was essentially a hedonistic summer break.....sex,drugs,and rock and roll....tune in,turn on, drop out.
It was mi dress and pointless.....except to further the lefts effort to over throw the order of the day
Drugs were widely sought — still are — as escapes from a secular hell.
Yet what the right had was superficial.
Very well said....tragically
No the Haight drew AA mixed crowd.....some as young as preteen...others as old as thirty something plus a few really old commies
lots and lots of satisfied customers.
What’s amazing is how quickly it spread from Haight-Ashbury to Madison Avenue. The show Mad Men captured this. Virtually overnight, the hairstyles and fashion radically changed.
[Yet what the right had was superficial.]
Hence the duuuuuust in the wiiiiiiind. The irony of hearing this in a home improvement store today. Menards, you might want to screen your oldies Muzak better.
“You romanticize what was essentially a hedonistic summer break.....sex,drugs,and rock and roll....tune in,turn on, drop out.”
Whether it was long after 1967 or long before 1967, I believe most of us can reflect upon a hedonistic era in their lives.
For me, I was in college, I was in a band that toured and I covered all of those bases.
And of the two, college provided the most hedonism or SDR&R.
That may be....but the left had nothing superficial or otherwise
Oh indeed
My grandparents managed an apartment building in San Francisco during that time.
Hippies struck me as horribly phony, pretending to be something that people aren’t.
Oh, I am sure the surviving of my brothers that were serving in SEA at the time remember it well, just a far different memory.
We got played for suckers by the democrats and their dirty little war.
May McNamara and LBJ roast in hell.
“Drugs were widely sought — still are — as escapes from a secular hell.”
I have been on a college campus for one reason or another for 30 years and from what I have tell, the amount of sex is the same, the amount of drinking is around the same and the amount of drugs is exactly the same.
The only difference is that the kids today don’t smoke cigarettes as much as they used to.
Then you were not old enough to have been aware in the sixties.....by the end of the decade this country was at war with itself. The idea that it was uplifting or wonderful or inspirational is delusional
And no most of us do not go through that nonsense....the fact that you were in a band that toured puts you well outside the so called mainstream
Most of those “Hippies” got into Disco in the late 70s.
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