Posted on 08/17/2009 3:07:40 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
The Baby Boomers and those of the post sixties generation are joyfully celebrating the 40-year anniversary of the Woodstock Music Festival which took place in 1969. Since then, the event has been glorified, glamorized, sensationalized and etched into the very fabric of our American consciousness and youth culture. This festival was the defining point against “the Establishment” and America’s core Judean/ Christian values. This festival was the brown acid of the radical Left’s agenda, whose goons in the reprobate (godless) music industry have steadily pushed the boundaries of morality over the past 40 years. In the wake of Woodstock and the Moral and Political philosophy of Crowley and Nietzsche, the destructive shock waves from this era have been felt in every facet of American society and culture.
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Devastating Stench is more accurate...
And most of those who went to disco, wound up embracing disco in the late 70s. Most of them were just following whatever the latest trend was.
“And most of those who went to disco”, should say
“And most of those who went to Woodstock”
They then converted to “Greed Is Good” and then in the nineties several committed suicide after Cobain and then now they are currently squealing about Global Warming while humping each other in worhsip of Gaia.
Our country has gone to hell in a handbasket ever since.
Some pathetic aging hippie on DUmmie Underground was extolling the virtues of “the Woodstock Generation” and telling the young whippersnapper “progressives” that they owe a great deal to the hippies.
I guess that DUmmie doesn’t realize that 80% of the people at Woodstock were there for the sex and acid, and couldn’t care less about “propgressive ideals.”
Bill Clinton once said that, if you like the social changes that came out of the ‘60s, odds are you are a Democrat. And if you think that a lot of bad changes had their start in the ‘60s, then odds are you are a Republican.
I agree with his specific statement, though don’t agree with which side of the ‘60s debate he is on.
Yeah, illegally crashing a “pay for” concert is a real virtue.
I was in a store and a local radio station was prattling on about Woodstock. The bands largely all sucked except The Who and maybe Hendrix & CSNY. The rest were garbage.
The baby boomer hippies whining about this were spolied children and became self-centered ego manical adults. They constant go on and on about how self important they are. Give it a rest booms. Woodstock sucked, it wasn’t important and your are tedious and elderly now.
The people of that era that did something important were the young men and woman who got stuck fighting JFK & LBJ’s Vietnam War. They did something. Woodstock losers rolled around in the mud, smoked dope and, in retrospect, listened to laughingly BAD bands.
The Establishment must have been mighty flimsy to have been undone by a bad rock concert.
The damage was done at the 68 DNC Convention, the radicals took over the Rat Party after that.
Funny, I thought it was a concert. Woodstock may be emblematic of certain values prevalent among the youth in the 60's, but it does not resonate as a significant historical moment, politically speaking. At its heart (and boy, will the left hate my saying this), Woodstock was the hippie-left's equivalent of a kick ass frat party. They just had more attendees.
Look at it this way, when Abbie Hoffman tried to make it political, he almost got beheaded by Pete Townshend’s guitar.
Loved the visual of hundreds of NYPD/FDNY in the front row during Won't Get Fooled Again.
And when Michael Moore tried to use “Won’t Get Fooled Again” in one of his movies, Pete turned him down.
Why criticize anyone’s form of “free expression” (especially when you don’t agree with it)? Isn’t that just lowering yourself, to the level of those who now criticize “tea party” attendees (without considering the merits of their arguments)?
Didn’t the repeal of mandatory service in the 70’s, implicitly acknowledge the unfairness of a conscripted draft in the 60’s? Hasn’t the military changed for the better since then (as only those who chose to sign up, are in uniform now).
How just was Vietnam to those who had to fight it (when the Tonkin Gulf resolution was based on LBJ’s lies)?
Have you considered that some of the most vocal protestors on the stage at Woodstock had paid their dues (Fogerty and Country Joe were Army veterans, and Hendrix had done airborne) and therefore had the most right to speak about it?
Carlos Santana.
I went for the music , The Who in particular . Nobody bothered me . Never felt threatened . That huge alfalfa farm field became a huge city of half a million for those 3 days in 1969 and there was hardly any trouble . Drugs were done , sure ( but not be me ) . They were being done in every other city and small town across the heartland as well .
I thought Sly and the Family Stone’s performance was amazing. They said that most of the people there when they started were half-asleep, but their performance woke them up.
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