Zoyd

[Joe Varo]

On 23 Aug 2009 at 9:34, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> No matter what we attribute the "failure" of the sixties to, the fact
> is, there was something -- a spirit, an ideology, an idealism - to
> fail.  Successive generations have brought us the Me Decade,
> nihilistic punk rock, sexist and materialistic rap music, rampant
> get-ahead yuppie-ism, the dot-com "revolution, and, at best, a
> fleeting (apparently disintegrated now) Obama-worship movement.  Why
> are we so harsh towards those in the sixties who at least thought
> about what an ideal society might look like?  They failed?  Well,
> who's succeeded?
> 
> Laura

Well, here's my $0.02 on the subject of the vilification of the '60s:

Post hoc ergo propter hoc:  Fallacy or not?