Watergate, Warhol and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
jd
wescac at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 12:13:21 CDT 2006
Perhaps you are correct, it's easy to make generalizations. It's just
that I guess looking back and seeing what they did, it feels like
maybe if they had laid off the drugs just a bit more (tho not
entirely, of course!) they may have had more progress. It feels like
it all just fizzled out instead of going anywhere because a new fad
came along in the 70s. I guess the star that burns brightest draws
the most blame, because I suppose you're right - the people of the
70s, 80s, 90s, and now should be out there trying to make change for
the better too but we're all stuck behind our computers bitching about
the 60s, or whatever. For me it feels like they really got the ball
rolling and then just suddenly deflated it, like all the progress they
made has to be re-claimed if any sort of movement is going to happen
again, and the hippie ideal (for the majority) seems to be some
watered-down fantasy about laying around smoking pot and having sex.
How many people attended Woodstock to make a statement, and how many
attended because it would be a grooving show with plenty of LSD to go
around? You know? How many people forgot the ideals of the hippies
as soon as the coke and disco craze came rolling around?
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