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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 4:03:12 PM | I was remember what fun it used to be. Sure, there was a lot of pot, but so much "people power", too. There were explosions of creativity, art, music and culture. Everything was changing for the better. We could live hedonistically and just enjoy nature, our bodies, love and sex without any apology. There was so much more permission to just BE ALIVE and ENJOY LIFE and "being different" wasn't such a bad thing, in fact, it was kind of a cool thing.
Was it just my youth, or was it the times, or was it all just a dream?
Now, everything is so expensive, so repressed, and although the internet has opened up so much more communication, people seem so much further from eachother and that sense of "people power" is gone.
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 4:27:25 PM | Hi steven!
Was it just my youth Yep
was it the times Yep
or was it all just a dream? Yep
Has something been lost? Yep
Okay, now what?
We're old(er). We've lived through all the duties.. the ups and downs and joys and griefs of being responsibily "grown up".
It was a long haul, and mighty interesting!
I don't know about you, but I'm celebrating that I'm alive and I'm enjoying life and I can still say I am "being different"!
Just think... we have some amazing memories, too! | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 4:33:47 PM | Something has definitely been lost. A lot of things actually. It's called progress. Times change. People change. Ideals change. Societies change. Perspectives change. Sometimes it's difficult to keep up. But time waits for no man (or woman).
There are times when I long for the simpler days of my youth. I was basically in forced isolation for 24 years. When I decided to try to rejoin the land of the living a year ago, I found that life had become very scary for me. I also discovered that people had become scary for me too. The hardest thing for me to cope with has been the fact that relationship rules have changed, and no one sent me the memo!
It's sometimes sad that change (especially drastic change) must take place, but change is a part of life. As I have found out the hard way so far, we must adapt to the changes or risk being left behind. I'm having trouble adapting. I do a lot of soul searching and adapting and take it at my own speed for now. I'm still pretty much of a hermit and the fear factor is still fairly high at times, but I'm hoping that one day I'll fit in again.
I still listen to the music from those great days (as my youngest daughter says, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth). | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 5:00:41 PM | A daughter of a good friend of mine said to me, a while ago: “Gee, Uncle Cdn ... it must have been great to live in the 60’s – the peace, the love, the music, everyone doing their own thing. You must feel very lucky.”
I told her that yes, the memories are pleasant that most of us have retained that lived through that era. And it is certainly what is written about the age and how Hollywood portrays it. So I sat her down and said: “That’s 10% of it. Would you like me to tell you about the other 90%?” She was nearly 20 years old, so I didn’t think it would be inappropriate to let her know the complete story – the overdoses, the poverty, the deaths, the good peoples’ lives totally destroyed in the name of love, peace, social revolution and the next great 'high'.
The passage of time is usually gracious to us and lets us keep the good things and forget the bad. I’m not saying I dislike the 60’s, nor am I sorry that I was fortunate to grow up during my formative youthful learning years during those times, but no ... I don’t miss it at all. I still play and listen to the golden rock tunes of the 60’s every weekend, but technology and progress have brought me many, many things I could only dream of during those times – the least of which is the broadening geographical circle of my friends network. Just to share in the lives of all the wonderful people I’ve met in all corners of the globe is reason alone to be glad that the past is just that – remembered fondly, but gone.
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 5:11:17 PM | "Was it just my youth, or was it the times, or was it all just a dream?"
no, it was all the drugs. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 5:30:14 PM | I don't know if it was all just a dream.
So many people were out in the streets protesting while the government was trying to do its "thing", which resulted in 50,000 young men turning into hamburger in the big meatgrinder called Viet Nam for some pretty pointless reasons.
We felt the power of that, even if the government pushed back. There was the kind of solidarity everyone felt just after 911, too .... and so many things that stood for ages that divided people were falling down, one after another.
The people were winning and there was huge creativity and enjoyment and love-making and yes, some dope, but psychedelics and pot didnt really hurt anyone except the occasional psycho who was already half nuts and had the poor judgement to do mushrooms. A lot of people DIDN'T do pot, a lot did, it didn't matter.
What mattered was that people had the power or were at least taking it and for my money, the quality of life was 1,000% better than it is now. I remember food coops, I worked at one for a summer, buying from the locals and going organic ....managed by people, a whole community, not by some distant multinational conglomerate. It was a very different feeling.
Now, everyone is too busy working two jobs to just keep up with the bills or stressed about money, there is very little creativity out there .......or maybe I am just way out of touch but the music I hear now.....yuck.....and where is the art, where culture do we have? Its all about money.
Where is the idealism?
Part of it was me, youth, etc........but we live in a very different time now. A much darker time, as far as I am concerned. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 5:50:48 PM | I'm your age, so yes I do remember all this and see where you're coming from.
I actually agree with most if not all of what you said here. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 6:38:11 PM | Some things I miss about the 60s, some I don't. I wasn't old enough to enjoy the drugs or sex so I only got to hear the music and watch the whacky tv programs. But the thing that sticks out most is the violence. It seemed as if one campus or another was taken over every week and 1968 was one long nightmare. In the early 60s the drugstore sit-ins began in my hometown and I still remember one of my uncles freaking out. He was the same uncle who ran over to our house when Jack Ruby was shot live on tv. Strange times. Most of it seems nicer in hindsight. The 70s were better. Vietnam ended so I didn't have to worry about that and Nixon got his due. It also gave us disco, ick, but on balance I enjoyed those years more.
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 6:59:49 PM | i was very young in the 60's but do remember the 70's.it was great in so many ways and yes there was the down side as well as already mentioned but i supposed that's true of any era..life just seemed so different then.people were more people oriented ..we weren't just a number.everything today is about one thing only..$$$..you call a company or a business for customer service..all you get is a pre-recorded message with choices stating they want to ensure top quality service..BOLDERDASH!!..then you voice your concerns to someone half way across the world that can't speak english well enough to carry on a conversation!!..if you don't like what they say..too bad,so sad..you're outta luck!!
but then again i guess that boils down to the large coorporations as opposed to the small business men..i remember back in the 60's and 70's going to the small variety stores, restaraunts and grocery stores and you were treated and looked after like gold.they would get to know you by name..now,most salesclerks,and cashiers don't have the time of day for you..and good luck trying to find one when you need help!!..but there again..the owners' have to cut back so they hire a number of employees part-time so that when they do work they have very few hrs that don't cover the cost of anything.
kids spend much of their time indoors on the computers or game systems not excersizing their imaginations or interacting with others on a personal level.
if i could i'd bring back the 70's for many reasons..we made our own fun..we seemed more relaxed..not as pressured and we had time for our families and friends..now we have to squeeze them in ..when we can find the time. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 7:37:06 PM | Miss the 60's and 70's?
40 and 50 years ago.
No.
I enjoyed the 60's and 70's in the 60's and 70's.
I enjoy today for today. My lifestyle is just as much fun as my lifestyle was back then.
I find it a shame that people prefer to live in the past than enjoy the present. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 7:42:44 PM | | The music was great. A very popular young, dynamic President was murdered. There was an unpopular war going on (the basis of which was an intelligence fiction) and the civil unrest was tearing apart the fabric of American society. We landed men on the moon. War products manufacturing kept the economy humming along as war profiteers lined their pockets with lucrative munitions contracts. I "lost my virginity." Nixon (the former "Commie-hunter") was elected President; the most signifigant of his achievments was the beginnings of negotiations with China (and a lot of the environmental legislation that so-called "conservatives" ["reactionaries" is a more accurate term] of today like to characterize as "leftist"). | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 7:50:35 PM | To me, the late 60's and 70's were a confusing time. Having been raised strictly Catholic (I wasn't even allowed to go out during the week and only to school dances or football games on weekends).........my parents ideas were that no decent single woman moved out of her parents house until she married.........
In my senior year of high school, all h*ll seemed to break out among me and my friends. We stormed the principal's office to protest the assassinations of King and then Robert Kennedy. We choose the lovers we would lose our virginity to. I joined a women's consiousness group, had gay friends, and friends who had open marriages and I was a founding member of the NOW group in Upstate New York.
And then like cdn described above, I saw the heartache of it all. I spent a night consoling a 17 year old who had an abortion and wanted to find the baby in garbage cans. I spent half my time visiting friends who OD's on drugs and ended up in mental wards for a couple of weeks. I took a med student to the ER when I discovered her trying to cut out her own appendix on a drug trip. I saw that all this "love" stuff wasn't love. People divorced at the drop of a hat. Love only lasted until the sexual thrill wore off.
Luckily, I avoided most of the pitfalls of my generation because of my parents being so strict. They were horrified enough at what I was doing so I didn't do drugs, "love" ins, or one night stands and that helped them a little.........
There were good things that came out of it all. Jobs opened up for women and today's young women can't understand when there was a time women couldn't find a job that paid enough to support herself or could get credit, etc....... Today's woman doesn't have to be afraid to admit that she enjoys sex...........and she knows that she is supposed to enjoy it not just please her husband......... Men became more involved with their kids.
The bad news is that we threw away the baby with the bath water.......... At first women working was freeing both to men and women. It meant extra money...... Today very few women can stay home with their kids.........they have to work and kids are raised by babysitters, soccer teams, schools and all kinds of activities. And most are being raised in one parent homes.........most kids have divorced parents today. And the result in my own family is that kids don't believe love lasts. And now it takes two working parents just to have a home..........but who's home now?
There were some good things in the old ways. Like sticking through things together. Being loyal ........ being angry and working through it and staying together........learning to forgive (because sooner or later, each one needed forgiveness over something!)..............morals, integrity, the "us" counting more then just "me" and what I happen to want at this moment.............
The pendulum was way over at the left, swung way over to the right and now it needs to settle in the middle.........reclaim some of the old values, keep the new ones that are good............
I think perhaps one of the most unfortunate things from the 60's and 70's are that many of my generation never could grow up...........it was too much fun to try to stay 20 forever.............JMO | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:04:54 PM | | It was the best of times--life was simple--people were simpler--now everyone is cut throat and no one wants to take the time for anyone. Forget dating--it is just a joke. You meet someone--you fall in love--they leave because they need space and the whole damn process starts over--what is this freaking space everyone needs--I am just so frustrated with men. I go above and beyond for them and it is never ever enough--oh well--love is simply not meant for everyone--- | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:08:12 PM | People were free to make new choices, there was so much newfound freedom that people didn't know what to do with it, and made mistakes. It's a toss-up on whether it's "better" to be unfree and live according to the narrow roles society dictates in mediocrity or break free and screw up. I'd rather break free and screw up ....:-)
There was definately a battle, the country lined up much like today: Red and Blue. I even hear people say today, "love it or leave it", "my country, right or wrong", though not in the same words ....while other say we are not finished, there are wrongs to right, issues unsolved, a long way to go. I am obviously among the latter group.
A big difference, though, is how the mom-and-pops and small, local businesses seem to have disappeared. I remember one place I loved in my city called Zara's. It was just the bottom floor of a brownstone that a Polish woman had converted into a coffeehouse and we could sit for hours and just talk about everything under the sun, no pressure, that was what the space was for and there was a big, brass Russian samovar the endless coffee would come from. That went with the whole neighborhood in urban renewal, like a lot of local places did, and then the national franchises all moved in and it was all gone.
The point I started to make about that time, though, was the energy ....the people energy, the creativity, the arts, the music .... the explosion of those things. I think there is a causal connection between people having power and having a real say over what our government does ....... and that explosion of people energy.
I feel like I am in some 1950's communist Russia these days. Or like I just stepped into Orwell's 1984. All that is dead. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:14:48 PM | http://www.espinola.net/wiki/What_a_difference_50_years_makes
Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack
1957 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock-down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school
1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students
1957 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Parents get extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping
1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school
1957 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Mary turns up pregnant
1957 - 5 High School Boys leave town. Mary does her senior year at a special school for expectant mothers.
2007 - Middle School Counselor calls Planned Parenthood, who notifies the ACLU. Mary is driven to the next state over and gets an abortion without her parent's consent or knowledge. Mary given condoms and told to be more careful next time.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English
1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state democratic party. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist.
ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed
1957 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him
1957 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.
Scenario: As a hoax, two guys place signs with blinking lights in numerous places around the city of Boston.
1957 - Some laugh at the joke, some shake their heads in disbelief. A few panic and leave town believing there is an imminent alien invasion.
2007 - The devices spark a major bomb alert. The city is cordoned off, the bomb squads are called in. As a result, a top executive of a major corporation is forced to resign and the company has to pay millions in damages.
Progress
Scenario: Johnny (a Negro boy) was seen going out with Mary (a white girl)
1957 - Johnny was stood up against a tree and lynched.
2007 - People that know them think what a nice couple they make, while most others think nothing of it at all.
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:39:39 PM | I miss the music of the 70’s and the free spirit of growing up. There are moments of wanting to turn back time for the freedom of it all; for the sheer fun of being spontaneous and using youth as an excuse to experiment with who I think I am. I definitely miss the 70’s now that I’ve thought about it some.
Some of the major changes that have happened to our my generations is the idea of sexual freedom lost. The fear of Aids may have been replaced with the use of the internet for the idea of ‘sexual intimacy’; the roles of men have changed in that they are viewed as equal to women. In the 60’s n 70’s, the struggle of individuality was just surfacing.
God I miss the 70’s….lol
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:55:08 PM | miss the 60s and 70s?
YES !!!
optimism has been replaced by pessimism
altruistic pursuits have been replaced by pursuit of the almighty dollar
questioning authority has been replaced by apathy
power of the people has been replaced by powerlessness
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 8:55:41 PM | I hate to tell you, but you can still be idealistic, activist, creative, different, full of joy, sexually satisfied; buy your food at a food cooperative (or better yet, through a Community Supported Agriculture share); and make a difference in social and political change. If you are not doing these things, you have only yourself to blame.
I'm not doing all of them, I'm doing some, I blame my disability issues for the ones I don't do; but I remember the 60s and 70s as times of despair, frequent assassinations and other atrocities in America (Kent State,anyone?), and wondering if I really wanted to bring children into a world threatened by nuclear annihilation. Not such happy times for me. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 9:08:01 PM | RoyalPain, it wasnt a time of despair, there was incredible joy and freedom.
We saw all of our best leaders shot ..........the Kennedys, MLK, even John Lennon. I never felt they were random events or single shooters, even if there is so little evidence to the contrary. Too many of the same kind of leaders all shot within such a short time.
Outside of having our leaders taken away from us, the power of the people was still there. They sent the cops, the National Guard, etc. and they busted heads .....but we stood up to them and eventually we won. And out of that came this huge, incredible sense of power and freedom that people had that exploded in creativity.
You are quite right, though, that all those things are still possible. By the way, some of those days are still with us...........every year, not to be missed, there is the Oregon Country Fair in Veneta, Oregon .......the parents, their kids and even their kids still celebrate those days. Also, there is the Burning Man festival. I was hoping to go this year, but can't.
The despair youre talking about wasnt so much from the people but what was done to punish the [people for taking their freedom and punishing the leaders who were offering it. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 9:45:50 PM | "The despair youre talking about wasnt so much from the people but ... "
I hate to disagree with you, Steven, and belabour the point, but these things are all remembered subjectively (by each of us) and our memories are of those things that were part of our lives and the people in it at the time. Yes, I had bell-bottom jeans, hair to my waist, an idealistic hope from all these wonderful new things that were happening -- to some extent, I carry much of this with me today. But I also remember my best friend coming at my head with a hammer because I was trying to talk her out of sticking another needle into her arm that was covered in needle callouses from elbow to wrist. She's dead now. I remember the stupid things that kids like myself did during a time that we were far too young to know otherwise and far too caught up in the changes of the time to realize. There are gravestones all over my town with my friends names on them. I remember standing toe to toe with my fellow protestors and watching how scarey it became when the law enforcement people took up their stance directly opposite. I remember my 'peace-loving' friends going down with blood on their shirts in the name of peace.
Yes, I remember the 60's fondly. It was an era unlike any that came before it. But I also remember the other side of it, the side that some people were fortunate enough to miss, the side that many don't remember and probably wouldn't want to talk about if they did. The 60's were an era to remember, it is true, and I have my very good memories of those years. Unfortunately, there were other things, the other side of it, that also carry memories that I'll never forget -- and hope I never have to again.
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 11:09:22 PM | In the 60's I was between 3 and 13, and had over proctective parents, so I really didn't know about any of the things that were meant to be going on during that time. However from what I have read since then, the 60's and all that went with that time period was the worst thing that could have happened to the world.
In the 70's everything seemed expensive. Yes thing were a lot cheaper, but everyone also made a lot less money. At one time $12,000 a year was thought of as good pay, now one person would have to struggle to live on that. I remember when I was about 8(1965) my parents were thinking about buying a house, and heared my dad say "how can anyone afford $90 a month house payments. He was in the military". So really even in the 60's things were expensive too.
I think our generation (people 41-61) is the one that managed to destroy everything that was once good about life. Meeting, loving, starting a family, having children. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/27/2008 11:52:04 PM | Wow. A lot of posters are really bummed. Did they dream too much in the 60s? Is reality too much of a bummer? Still?
I was a kid, and I remember the 60s as a fun time. I don't miss them because the things I loved about the 60s I still enjoy -- the music, the movies, looking at new cars! Even as a child I knew times were troubled. I watched MLK's funeral service from my elementary school classroom -- it was the only time they turned on the TV. When I think back, I'm shocked we even HAD a TV in the classroom!!! I was more interested in eating Pogo Paste. I knew everyone wasn't treated the same -- my parents would talk about it -- how we had to be careful where to go and what to say. How great it was when one of us did good or got national attention.
What I didn't understand was WHY there were so many different rules about how to treat people. I didn't understand WHY people from someplace else were hated, or WHY all the religious denominations hated each other, too. It made no sense to me, and it still doesn't.
Sometimes I imagine myself living in another era. I wonder if I could cope with the society -- would I be making waves? Would I be too "uppity", too outspoken, too casual, too secular, too defiant?
In the 70's I started to be affected by the societal indoctrination. Not really brainwashed but I remember realizing that certain messages were being drummed into me -- my reaction was to just wait and see how the world turns out. I wasn't an activist -- still ain't one. In the 70s I was taught that drugs were going to destroy everyone's mind. Did it matter? I was also taught that we'd all be dead from nuclear radiation and industrial pollution by the year 2000.
By the mid-80's I stopped waiting for apocalypse in one form or another. I had got my fun youthful years, so everything was cool, anything now was just gravy. Besides, if apocalypse happened, it doesn't matter how much you planned, you're going down with everyone else -- that's the nature of apocalypse. Anything else -- (Y2K bugs, etc.) are just bumps in the road, and society will recover.
I don't think the world has been ruined by our generation or by any other. It's still the same crazy, mixed up place it was 10,ooo years ago when the first farmer put up the first fence and said "This is mine." Every generation has the same gripes and complaints about how this or that is ruining what they like. Oh, well...I remember what's good about the things I like -- and find that in new things, too. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/28/2008 4:50:15 AM | cdn*guy, someone wrote that we tend to see the world as we are, not as it is.
Needles, narcotics, overdoses ... I dont think narcotics was a product of the 60's.....everyone I knew smoked pot, including me. I am sorry about your friend, but I dont see that typifying the 60's in the least.
And yes, lining up against the "law enforcement people", that was definately a part of those times. Interesting, here is America, the land of the free, how you have the freedom to shoot your mouth off in the middle of the street but get together as a group and protest peacefully something the government doesnt quite have in mind, then the "law enforcement people" start lining up.
I'm not sure why you have so many bad memories, it was such an incredible time for me but also just an incredible time for most who lived in those days.
Again, it was the the people power .... people took their power back..... and took back America. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/28/2008 5:00:07 AM | not to dwell on the subject of drug use, but, injected drugs are rampant today, heroin has become "hip" to our youth--even with all they've heard about it growing up all their lives. throw in crack and meth.....geeeeeeessshh meth is really a huge problem today!!!
so, no, IMO, drug usage wasn't any worse then than it is today.
the friends I lost then were mostly due to Viet Nam, auto accidents from drunken all-nighters, and other dumb reasons....some even natural or just plain poor health. | |
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| Anyone MIss the 60's and 70's?
Posted: 4/28/2008 6:23:21 AM | Ah, the sixties and seventies. Awesome times. I liked the music much better then than now.
But that was right when I found out that the "peace lovers" where amongst the most violent people I'd ever meet. My mom drove me and my little brother out to San Francisco to pick my dad up from the airport, just returning from Viet Nam. I remember everyone anxiously awaiting the appearance from the gate of whoever they were expecting. It was relatively calm. But when I finally saw my dad walk through the gate wearing his Army uniform, a bunch of hairy people with peace signs and tie dyed shirts screamed and threw vegetables at us. I guess I was ten or so at the time. I caught a tomato in my face. Mom was pelted by a squash. My little brother was screaming bloody murder.
I guess they didn't know that my dad was just a cook, not a fighter, and even adopted a baby Vietnamese orphan while he was in country.
Been a liberal hipocrit hating right winger ever since. Nowadays, my hate for liberals is even stronger, fed by the fact that today's even more moronic liberals only seem to care about their own democracy and couldn't care less about anyone else's on the planet. | |
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