Sixties futility

[Richard Fiero]

Robin Landseadel wrote:
>  . . . It was a short step from the summer of love  to the drug 
> nightmare of 1968 in the Haight.

Funny.  I don't recall any nightmare.  Oh, wait, I left earlier.

>Showing up at junior high school with long hair in 1967 got me a lot
>of "hippie bum" and "are you a boy or a girl?" The shock of the new
>still was capable of un-nerving the straights back then.

Teeny-bopper?

The sixties always had a political component. Civil rights, travel to 
and from Cuba, United Farm Workers, Vietnam. What more could you want?
Cops coming into bookstores and inquiring if they might be able to 
buy a gun or something that goes bang. NSA and FBI surveilling, 
infiltrating and provoking.  The Tube showing us winning in Vietnam 
non-stop in an appropriately sized war against a peasant army.  Keane 
Big Eye paintings!!