Viewing the 1960's from my 60's

[Chris_]

Viewing the 1960's from my 60's

The baby-boomers born in the years after World War II were members of the most coddled generation America had ever seen. From birth, they had been treated like royalty, privileged and spoiled not for any special qualities or accomplishments, but simply because they existed and were their parents’ little darlings.

Nobody should have been too surprised that as they came of age, they were a religion onto themselves. Their not so holy trinity consisted of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. I never really got a handle on how that made them so special. But gods do not have to explain themselves.

Their favorite line, the one about not trusting anybody over the age of 30, wasn’t just an inane catchphrase. It became the order of the day, not just for those under 30, but those well past it. It wasn’t just wars they got to judge, either, but movies, music, TV shows, books and politicians. It fell on children to bestow the equivalent of the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval.

The fact that they weren’t particularly knowledgeable or even open-minded, except, of course, when it came to sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll, only added to their mystique. Unlike adults, the thinking went, they hadn’t sold out. What made their bullshit so totally odious was the fact that their elders, for the most part, bought into it. In addition, because they were so lacking in humor, their solemnity was taken for sincerity.

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I love a good rant.  This one is worth reading.  

For some reason, the Townhall.com link wouldn't work, so I linked to FR.

[JohnnyReb]

Viewing the 1960's from my 60's

The baby-boomers born in the years after World War II were members of the most coddled generation America had ever seen. From birth, they had been treated like royalty, privileged and spoiled not for any special qualities or accomplishments, but simply because they existed and were their parents’ little darlings.



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Alright dammit, who forgot to tell my parents about this?

[Lord Undies]

I certainly was not coddled nor made to feel special just because I was born.  This article does the same thing the media did back in the 1960's and today.  It ignores the majority and concentrates on a minority in order to make a broad distortion into everyone's truth.

Back in the 60's, college campuses and the streets of San Francisco were not the nation as a whole.  They were all we heard about, though.  The nation where I lived was ignored.  It was ignored because I lived in reality, and reality was the enemy of "the dream"....just like today.