They were into give everyone a voice. Until it was their voice. Now it is censorship down the line. Line up and wear your mouth diaper or you will kill someone. Our equality of opportunity did not make equality of outcome so we will fix that.
If you go and listen to the words they spoke at that time. It is not different than now. They are just louder now. My theory is they all retired and started protesting again because they do not really need to work and want to pretend they are children again.
I'm a Boomer myself and I'm seeing some over-generalizations about my d-g-g-eneration. Some of us wised up a long time ago. Some (raises hand) vote Trump now. Some were just harmless naive flower-children; some were instinctive conformists going with the non-conformist flow because all their friends were. Some were just degenerates and into the drugs and orgies. There was Joan Baez. There was Charlie Manson. There was the outright traitor Jane Fonda. There was Jack Kerouac who was actually pro-Vietnam War and anti-Communist. There were Marxists like Thomas Sowell and David Horowitz who woke up and are now warning people against the evils of Marxism. And then there were the Left-Fascist Weather Underground types, the unspeakable Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinsky--they represent the ugliest side of the Hippie era, and unfortunately they now dominate the Left, driving out all moderate old school cold war liberal wrongthink out of today's Democrat party. And let's not forget the Black Panthers and post-MLK race-baiters like Sharpton--the forefuckers of BLM.
But enough Hippies went into academe to poison our education system. The flower-children became the participation-trophy, safe-space types. The militants made campuses brainwashing camps/training grounds for SJWs and AntiFa. So, long story short, yeah: Despite the variety and the exceptions, it's fair to say that as a whole my generation is responsible for where we are now. And saddest of all, they've indoctrinated at least two generations, meaning they've spawned a huge cohort of Lefties that will be around for a long time to come. But remember how far back Marxist indoctrination goes in the universities--at least as far back as the Frankfurt School in the late 30s. In a sense you could say the Hippie Movement was a popularized version of the Leftism that had been steadily spreading through the intellectual elite for decades.
I apologize I did not mean to generalize. That was not my intention. My intention was to convey the fact these people yelled for a platform. They were given one. Then now use it to abuse the rest of us. There are many who will gladly take that platform if it means they can bully and be hurtful. All in the name of being 'good'. They are anything but. I pray for them. But I suspect their hearts are closed off. My other theory is many of them of the 60s generation are now getting into retirement. They are bored and have reverted to their childish ways. Many who felt they 'missed out' on being a crusader in the 60s and are not going to lose that opportunity again.
You also point out this has been going on for a long time. It goes even further back to when we were founded as a country. There were two factions yelling at each other one to show how they can own people the other to show how free we are now. The democrats will pull upon themselves any system that lets them be the boss of others and not let freedom reign. Their current infatuation with Marxisim is just a form of that. One example I use is you do not get a bunch of dirt farmers to fight for slavery. They will never own a slave. They can not and never would have afforded it. They used lies to round them up and get them to fight. Many disagree with that view.
There is one man I was listening to last night. If I mentioned his name it would just start a fight here. Because many are not willing to let him go yet. But his lies are insidious. Built upon a system of hate of our government and God, but mostly God. I too looked up to him as I grew up. But his 60s BS is just that, BS. As I grow older and get more perspective I can see his lies.
No need to apologize at all. There's a big boulder of truth in them.
My 60-year-old cousin announced she was retiring from her law professor position so she could be an activist. (Again, just like when she was 40 years younger.)
So, yeah. Nostalgia for the good old days when there was injustice to fight. No longer true, but you can use make-believe injustice and larp just like it was old times.
Berkeley students protesting in favor of free speech. The ACLU fighting for the American Nazi Party's right to hold a march--and winning the case. Look at them now.
Confucius say: Tune change when shoe on other foot.
They were into give everyone a voice. Until it was their voice. Now it is censorship down the line. Line up and wear your mouth diaper or you will kill someone. Our equality of opportunity did not make equality of outcome so we will fix that.
If you go and listen to the words they spoke at that time. It is not different than now. They are just louder now. My theory is they all retired and started protesting again because they do not really need to work and want to pretend they are children again.
I'm a Boomer myself and I'm seeing some over-generalizations about my d-g-g-eneration. Some of us wised up a long time ago. Some (raises hand) vote Trump now. Some were just harmless naive flower-children; some were instinctive conformists going with the non-conformist flow because all their friends were. Some were just degenerates and into the drugs and orgies. There was Joan Baez. There was Charlie Manson. There was the outright traitor Jane Fonda. There was Jack Kerouac who was actually pro-Vietnam War and anti-Communist. There were Marxists like Thomas Sowell and David Horowitz who woke up and are now warning people against the evils of Marxism. And then there were the Left-Fascist Weather Underground types, the unspeakable Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffman, Saul Alinsky--they represent the ugliest side of the Hippie era, and unfortunately they now dominate the Left, driving out all moderate old school cold war liberal wrongthink out of today's Democrat party. And let's not forget the Black Panthers and post-MLK race-baiters like Sharpton--the forefuckers of BLM.
But enough Hippies went into academe to poison our education system. The flower-children became the participation-trophy, safe-space types. The militants made campuses brainwashing camps/training grounds for SJWs and AntiFa. So, long story short, yeah: Despite the variety and the exceptions, it's fair to say that as a whole my generation is responsible for where we are now. And saddest of all, they've indoctrinated at least two generations, meaning they've spawned a huge cohort of Lefties that will be around for a long time to come. But remember how far back Marxist indoctrination goes in the universities--at least as far back as the Frankfurt School in the late 30s. In a sense you could say the Hippie Movement was a popularized version of the Leftism that had been steadily spreading through the intellectual elite for decades.
I apologize I did not mean to generalize. That was not my intention. My intention was to convey the fact these people yelled for a platform. They were given one. Then now use it to abuse the rest of us. There are many who will gladly take that platform if it means they can bully and be hurtful. All in the name of being 'good'. They are anything but. I pray for them. But I suspect their hearts are closed off. My other theory is many of them of the 60s generation are now getting into retirement. They are bored and have reverted to their childish ways. Many who felt they 'missed out' on being a crusader in the 60s and are not going to lose that opportunity again.
You also point out this has been going on for a long time. It goes even further back to when we were founded as a country. There were two factions yelling at each other one to show how they can own people the other to show how free we are now. The democrats will pull upon themselves any system that lets them be the boss of others and not let freedom reign. Their current infatuation with Marxisim is just a form of that. One example I use is you do not get a bunch of dirt farmers to fight for slavery. They will never own a slave. They can not and never would have afforded it. They used lies to round them up and get them to fight. Many disagree with that view.
There is one man I was listening to last night. If I mentioned his name it would just start a fight here. Because many are not willing to let him go yet. But his lies are insidious. Built upon a system of hate of our government and God, but mostly God. I too looked up to him as I grew up. But his 60s BS is just that, BS. As I grow older and get more perspective I can see his lies.
No need to apologize at all. There's a big boulder of truth in them.
My 60-year-old cousin announced she was retiring from her law professor position so she could be an activist. (Again, just like when she was 40 years younger.)
So, yeah. Nostalgia for the good old days when there was injustice to fight. No longer true, but you can use make-believe injustice and larp just like it was old times.
Berkeley students protesting in favor of free speech. The ACLU fighting for the American Nazi Party's right to hold a march--and winning the case. Look at them now.
Confucius say: Tune change when shoe on other foot.