They had no real clue about what they were talking about if they were never there....
Quite true. The sixties, perhaps like the twenties, cannot be explained or understood by those who did not live through it. If you were not born between 1945 and 1954 you are either too old or too young to have been at the heart of it, and all you can know is a caricature of those ten years. To quote Dickens, “It was the best of times, and the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity ...