An old-timer here at work is convinced that the Beatles ‘started all this sh**’.
Paragraphs are your friend. The 60s caused damage that has never been fully repaired.
The much heralded “greatest generation” wasn’t so good at raising kids?
The 60s kids smoked all the paragraph marks? None left?
Discernment is called for - now more than ever. Read the signs.
They became convinced they could remain children forever.
As they got older, they refused to admit that is just a dream ALL children have, and that ALL children in the past have arrived at the doorway to maturity, and going through that doorway is as important to one’s emotional maturity as emerging from the womb is for the whole person.
They held on to their childish things—the things they read, and watched and listened to were not given up for deeper things, tougher things. When challenges appeared, they saw them as obstacles to be avoided...and so they did avoid them, and did not gain the insight and knowledge that leads to wisdom.
Instead they thought “We can just keep refusing to grow up, and the world will have to just deal with that.”
They were wrong.
Oh yeah... there were alot of drugs used by them too.
Robert Kline’s, 70’s recording ‘Child of the 50’s’ album is pretty good at describing life during that decade. I remember the air raid drills and hiding under the desk until the all clear signal was given. What a blast./p>
I think they were indulged, patronized, and humored too much by their parents, the members of the so-called ‘Greatest Generation.’
I have no affection for the ‘Greatest Generation,’ either. They are a selfish breed, also, most notably with their benefits. They have their legs wrapped around every government handout that comes their way, and hump it with glee and passion.
Pity the fool that dares tell them ‘no!’
First generation raised entirely on television.
Not all us 60’s kids are to blame.
Drugs
The Pill
Viet Nam as a focal point for generational conflict
An orchestrated loosening of morality in media (TV, film, music, print).
The post-war diaspora out of compacted religious/ethnic neighborhoods that supported a conformity of ethic to a multi-ethnic, multi-religious suburban sprawl where every boundary was stretched to the break-point.
Say what you will about our young generation now but they're joining the military out of high school knowing they'll be thrown into a very tough war.
Maybe our current young generation is determined to prove the 60’s generation wrong? I hope so.
It wasn’t us. We learned it from the preceding generation, and most of us learned it in public school. I grew up in NYC in the 1950s and 60s, and I was subjected to a full-scale leftist indoctrination by public school teachers, some of whom had even been in the war and had gone through school on their GI Bill when they came back.
This stuff goes way further back than the 1960s, and it probably would have flowered with the “Greatest Generation” had it not been for WWII. As it was, leftist theory - ranging from government control of the economy to free sex with anything and everything - took over the educational system.
I remember that anyone who didn’t agree with this was mocked and treated as a pariah - by the teachers, who were at a minimum, 15 years older than we were. In other words, 15 years being a generation, part of the “Greatest Generation.”
They’re doing just fine. We, their children, paid for their Social Security and we will be lucky if we collect anything. The first Baby Boomer (born 1946) will begin to collect full Social Security in 2012 (because they’ve upped the age for full SS), and succeeding years won’t be able to collect until even later.
So don’t blame the Baby Boom generation. We did what we were told to do.
The Great War (WWI) started the modern cycle of ennui and depravity. Although the seeds were sown before the war. I blame ragtime and The Wizard of Oz.
It’s Friday the 13th. I don’t believe in superstition, since it is bad luck. But, apparently it is the day the return key no longer works.
Also, the fear came before the music of the 60’s, the music was the echo of the fear. Like “Eve of Destruction”, maybe.
Elvis was a creation of other peoples demons...
What went wrong? Easy. The older generations succeeded. What a foolish statement.
The Older Generations had struggled to defeat the Kaiser in WW I. They came home to build a better land
The next older generation saw the country through the Great Depression, working beyond hard, instilling in the next generation a love of self, country, family and also instilling a sense of responsibility.
The next group fought a horrendous war around the entire world, a war that saw the slaughter of 50,000,000 people. When the war ended, their country, in effect, disarmed itself and came HOME. They married, raised children, and at the SAME time, built a world of scientific advances, medical advances and (debatable) cultural advances.
They brought forth a nervous “peace” that kept the following generations safe in their homes. They brought forth medical advances that freed their children from the terrors of Polio, Tuberculosis, and uncounted other “childhood diseases”. When I was a child, it was common to have a classmate die from one disease or another. Tragic, but not uncommon. I remember a terrible expression, often heard then, but thankfully no longer. One woman could be heard to say of another, “she had three children WHO LIVED”.
Did anyone under 40 ever hear that? Today, if a child tragically dies, buses of “grief counselors” are brought to school.
By the sixties, the young had been basically freed from the worries and concerns of countless generations. They had the free time to concentrate completely on “ME”.
Today we reap the harvest of CHILDREN who have NEVER LEFT THE CAMPUS. Educated in their own minds, but knowing nothing of the world in which they live.
It IS a new world, whether it is better is debatable.
Here's one mistake you make. They were not necessarily conservative in the depression. They allowed responsibility to shift to the Federal gov't at lightening speed. This displacement of personal responsibility was passed on to their kids.
When the sixties came (teenage years) this lack of teaching about responsibility exploded into the free love era, the repercussions of which live with us still. The free love philosophy is the bedrock upon which all the social programs are built.