For the record, actual Boomers are like 80 today, and most of the people LARPing a love for the dissidence of the '60s were teenagers at the time, at best joining the violent riots of the '70s. The vast majority of them did not and were just happily going about their lives in cloistered suburbs, not even meeting a black person until the Great Migration a few years later. They really wanted into the free love of the '60s, but if we're being honest they were busy masturbating to Sears catalogues at the time.
Yet all the 60-something libs I know love to talk like they personally marched with MLK Jr. and attended Woodstock themselves.
Admitting to being 13 and not really giving a shit about civil rights but really wanting the free love side makes them sound like selfish shitty people, so here we are: pretending that the hippies are still alive and politically active and not being killed by Cuomo in NY nursing homes.
Dude plenty of us GenXer's at one point thought the 60's were cool as fuck. They weren't but it's not just Boomers who ever thought that. I smoked a ton of dope back in the 80's and did a high school history presentation on the Hippie movement. I was stupid and thought they were cool as fuck.
For the record, actual Boomers are like 80 today, and most of the people LARPing a love for the dissidence of the '60s were teenagers at the time, at best joining the violent riots of the '70s. The vast majority of them did not and were just happily going about their lives in cloistered suburbs, not even meeting a black person until the Great Migration a few years later. They really wanted into the free love of the '60s, but if we're being honest they were busy masturbating to Sears catalogues at the time.
Yet all the 60-something libs I know love to talk like they personally marched with MLK Jr. and attended Woodstock themselves.
Admitting to being 13 and not really giving a shit about civil rights but really wanting the free love side makes them sound like selfish shitty people, so here we are: pretending that the hippies are still alive and politically active and not being killed by Cuomo in NY nursing homes.
Dude plenty of us GenXer's at one point thought the 60's were cool as fuck. They weren't but it's not just Boomers who ever thought that. I smoked a ton of dope back in the 80's and did a high school history presentation on the Hippie movement. I was stupid and thought they were cool as fuck.