Posted on 01/20/2015 8:56:58 AM PST by rktman
As last week’s epically embarrassing “James Taylor” fiasco demonstrated, the Western establishment acts like the Sixties never ended.
But as I’ve been insisting for some time, in many respects, that “Sixties” never really happened.
All that “peace and love,” “soixant-huitard” stuff comprised but a slender slice of the 1960s, and much of that was bogus, a cynical scam that ruined millions of lives.
“OK,” some of you have said in the comments, “but at least that decade had a hell of a soundtrack!”
Yeah, about that…
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I always thought the reason the 60s never happened to me was because I lived in a small town in rural Florida.
I think the Manson family was closer to the real “Hippy” than what I saw on TV.
I like Kathy Shaidle.
Don’t know what she’s talking about here.
Unfortunately the 60’s dominate today.
It’s the 60’s to the nth degree in everything.
In the 60’s it was a small percentage that was loud and got the media to relay the message.
Today it is most of society that accepts the 60’s dehumanization and anti-Conservatism.
I forget.
The 60’s happened on TV.
I grew up in the SF bay area and I can say (at least some) it happened.
They say if you can remember Woodstock you weren’t there.
The older kids in my neighborhood started wearing funny looking clothes.
It moved the culture - and that's what matters ...
That is pretty insane to think.
Strange. I remember jungles and B-52s, heat, humidity, rice bugs.
LOL! A good percentage of the 60's "musicians" were fakes or studio musicians!
??????Record Producer Terry Melcher????????
Wasn’t he Doris Day’s son and didn’t he die of a drug over dose?
My memory for useless facts is growing cloudy with age.
Thank you sir. I missed that little party, but I did get to meet some of the “peaceful flower children” through my job.
Thank you for your service. I always hated the way returning military from Vietnam were treated. I personally knew some that were drafted and did not want to go, but they did, only to be treated horribly by the liberal anti-war group.
What moved the culture was mass communication and the institutions from news organizations to Hollywood to the Universities, and the government, even the Warren Court.
Evidence of their power is how they have millions of Americans thinking that teenagers took over America and ran the courts, the Congress, the Senate, the war, the Presidency, the Universities, Hollywood, the major political parties, the ACLU, NOW, the NAACP, the teachers’s unions, the news industry and TV.
I remember a kid coming to Viet Nam just after Woodstock. For the first time in his life, he got attention, I believe. We were hungry, after a year or two, for info on what is happening in the World. His biggest revelation was “Did you guys hear about hear about Woodchuck?” We all were befuddled and said no. He went on to tell us about MILLIONS of people who went to a concert to protest the war and the war would be shut down before his tour was ended. As the next year went by, we found out it was Woodstock, we were still there and he’d been killed because he would not follow orders and was dumber than monkey shit. It did him a favor because the family who spawnwed him probably think him a hero. He wasn’t.
Indeed, out in much of mid-america, day-to-day life in the late-60s/1970s was still often more akin to the 1950s than what seemed to be reflected in Hollywood/media/pop-culture.
And it was the same for me: Charles Manson was seen as the poster-boy for hippiedom, amongst my peers.
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