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Take me back to the Sixties "The last Innocent Generation"
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Thanks, It. I enjoyed that!  I don't know about the 60's being the last innocent generation as opposed to the the 50's being the last naive generation.
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It's the last generation where people had any reasonable expectation that the government and big business wasn't declaring open warfare on them.
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Just as I've always said, 1967 was a pivotal year in the U.S., and I wasn't here.
I am beginning to see hope in kids in their early 20s. They don't want what Boomers screwed up and allowed to happen. Some kids are discovering that greed and hatred are not enjoyable. Hope spring eternal.
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It's the last generation where people had any reasonable expectation that the government and big business wasn't declaring open warfare on them. Acually, I think many kids of that generation were of the opinion that exactly that was happening... but they also thought they could do somethng about it. Today, I would say that most kids are unaware of this dynamic, and are mostly looking to take care of their own individual lives within the context of the existing economic/power structure
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It's the last generation where people had any reasonable expectation that the government and big business wasn't declaring open warfare on them. Hmmm.... Kent State?
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Definitely were two decades of the 1960's: 1960-65 and 1966-1969. This covers the first part, the second was much different.
Mick, your 1967 was my 1965.
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It's the last generation where people had any reasonable expectation that the government and big business wasn't declaring open warfare on them. Acually, I think many kids of that generation were of the opinion that exactly that was happening... but they also thought they could do somethng about it. Today, I would say that most kids are unaware of this dynamic, and are mostly looking to take care of their own individual lives within the context of the existing economic/power structure Ardy... I really hope you are right... You can't know how much I hope that the young are really facing the future, without the idea that education and prosperity is a "right". The recent loss on the 401K'S has got to be a downer for those who believed that they could achieve security with reasonably safe investments. I am not in direct touch with that many people who are in the 18 to 40 year bracket, but I wonder if they have the sense that government is working in their interests, or if they have a good understanding of how government works in the new millenium. Do you, or does anyone here, have a feel for the general level of sophistication of young people about money and politics?
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Ah yes, the 60's.
Fredom Riders
Murders of Medgar Evers, JFK, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy
Kent State and Jackson State
Chicago Police enforcing the Constitution by bashing heads of free speakers
Judge Julius Hoffman
Selma
And on and on and on
What a marvelous decade it was.
NOT!
And not seeing what made it so good up to 1965, either.
In fact, given a choice between staying in the era we're in and going back to relive the 60's, I'll take the current era.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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