the decade seems to be marked by a bunch of spoiled brats that had it far too good for far too long...not too mention that 99.9% of those MFers are business leaders...which makes them sellouts and hypocrites. and are we also forgetgting that they threw dog crap and blood on men that had to go to veitnam because they simply didnt have it as good as those ridiculing them? im just sick of hearing about the 60s like it was an idyllic time...cause it wasnt, it was probably the beginning of the end of our great nation.
im not talking about the civil rights movements, those african americans in the 50s and 60s that stood up for themselves ARE heroes, and thats a fact. but the hippies are a symbol of whats bad about our culture...
2007-12-15 05:22:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
yes well everyone loves a 'feel good' society. luckily there are a few of us that realize the truth, hopefully more will open their eyes after that generation dies and the propaganda goes away
2007-12-15 05:42:00 · update #1
I agree with you 100%. The 60's generation was the biggest group of screw ups in the history of America (not talking about the Viet Nam Vets). Many of the world's cultural problems started in the 60's and the 60's ideology has done great damage to the country and this world.
2007-12-15 05:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Dude 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you grow up during the 60s?
I did, and they were pretty idyllic for me, but then I was a kid.
The 60s were the best days of radio (the coolest music, before talk radio and news radio took over the airwaves), and although there was crime, we felt safe. In 1961 I went on my first solo trip ALONE at the age of 5 to visit my grandparents ON A TRAIN and my parents gave me a dollar to buy myself a banana split in the fancy dining car.
As I got older, I spent summers at my aunt and uncle's farm. I used to play with the dogs and fish and daydream. I walked a mile to the fish pond with my pole and my bait ALONE and my aunt would clean the fish I caught and we'd have them for supper. We also had fresh milk right out of the cow and we used to make homemade ice cream with a hand crank churn and catch fireflies and put them in a jar and use the jar as a "nature's lantern" (until the fireflies died!).
Some of my fondest memories were shopping trips downtown with my mother. The bus ride downtown was a nickel and it was a big adventure. Every Easter Sunday we would dress up in our new clothes and walk to church, then after church we would have an Easter Egg hunt. Every Hallowe'en we would go trick or treating and my mom would always make caramel apples covered in nuts. They were a big hit around my neighborhood. At Christmas we would spend days making bit batches of cookies and candies and make up special baskets for all the neighbors and I would take them around door to door.
But now of course you see none of that. They gradually got rid of the trains. My aunt and uncle couldn't afford to keep the farm anymore because the supermarkets were taking over and driving the supply prices down (and pocketing the difference), and the land got bought up by some big company and consolidated with all the other farms around and now it's nothing but monotonous miles of cash crops. Everybody moved to town and now they buy all their food (the fish is all frozen, imported from Asia) from a grocery store. Because the company cut down the forest to make way for thousands of acres of GM soya crops, there are no more fireflies.
People were warned in the 1970s not to let their kids go out trick-or-treating because psychos started poisoning or putting glass or nails in the treats. Parents were told not to let their kids go anywhere alone because, after the blissfull, safe 60s, it was no longer safe.
Downtown areas fell into disrepair as became ghost towns as shops moved to out of town "supermalls". Bus services were cut because there was nothing to go downtown for anymore. It used to take us 10 minutes on the bus to get to Macys downtown; when the downtown store eventually closed, it took us 45 minutes to get to the nearest mall with a Macys - on the highway.
After the 1960s, everything seemed to be about money and THINGS. Kids were no longer happy to go fishing at the lake or camping in the back yard. They had to have Nikes and Walkmen and pierced belly buttons, and their parents had to stump for them to go to Florida, Cancun or Aruba on Spring Break. In the 1960s, it was fine to live with your parents and go to a local college. After the 1960s, you were a POS if you didn't go to an Ivy League school, live on campus and belong to a fraternity/sorority. In the 1960s, you didn't have to have a degree to get a good job. All you had to have was a brain and a willingness to work. Now, you have to have a Bachelors degree to get a typing job. In the 1960s my mother didn't have to go out to work because even though my dad did not have a degree, he made enough money for us to live comfortably! You did not see any adults in "McJobs" in the 1960s...!
What went wrong with our culture is that we forgot what it was. You think the hippies ruined America? I would point a finger first at Wall Street. Because it is the capitalist rich, the money hungry, who have taken away a lot of the things that made the 60s so idyllic to me. They have robbed America of its culture and sense of community and its - how do I put it - niceness - and turned it into a place where it's every man, woman and child to himself. Everything we admired and cherished got twisted. Gordon Gekko killed Beaver Cleaver.
2007-12-15 06:04:42 · answer #2 · answered by lesroys 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chill out Man..... Puff Puff Pass..;)
2007-12-15 05:30:48 · answer #3 · answered by Mychele h 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, just you.
Hippies rule!
2007-12-15 05:28:53 · answer #4 · answered by soulsearcher 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it was and we were and still are!!
2007-12-15 05:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by wendy_da_goodlil_witch 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋