VLVL"the Movement"

[Malignd]

<<I think it's fair enough to say that by the end of
'68 and into 1969 and beyond things were starting to
fall apart pretty badly for the counterculture, in
terms of it having once been a more or less unified 
and potent sociocultural entity and political lobby.
Internal bickering and fragmentation, Nixon in
Washington, Altamont, the Manson murders, the slow
disintegration of SDS, Kent State, the failure of the
campus strikes, the Weathermen Underground and the New
York apartment bombing -- all these things and more
were sounding the death knell of "the Movement".>>

It might be fair, but it's inaccurate, in that it
assumes a unity in--God--the "movement"--that was
never the case.  You're noting and mourning the death
of a figment.

<<It's easy to deride generalisations for their
generality, and more often than not there will be
specific exceptions and valid demurs. However, 
to imply that an opposite situation was prevailing --
that everything with "the Movement" was as vibrant and
idealistic and hunky dory in 1969 as it had been
earlier in the '60s, at Berkeley say -- simply isn't
on.>>

One isn't dismissing your generalizations for their
generality; what you describe as specific exceptions
to what I assume you believe was the rule were not
exceptions, rather examples of what was, for the most
part, the case.  That there was more strife later than
what existed at Berkeley--a single university campus
during a relatively brief period--well; how could it
have been otherwise?





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