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Originally Posted by dwixi  Im 17, i would like to hear from someone that was a teen back then.
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I'd be careful asking about those times from people who were young and might want to idealize it out of nostalghia. Keep in mind the same group that ushered in "peace" and "love" where quick to vote Ronald Reagan for the selfish, greedy 1980's. But back to the 60's, here is a blog entry from somebody who was heavily involved in activism to end the Vietnam war. He actually spent time in prison for draft dodging. While he felt at the time that there was potential for major breakthroughs, in retrospect he views it all as a massive failure. If you read the responses he gets, you will see that others disagree.
Getting Depressed? « cinemaelectronica
(you have to scroll down about a page, past the Mao picture).
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And history makes clear that the entire “Movement” was a failure - America, conned by Nixon, lurched to the right, and basically kept on going there. The Vietnam war dragged out with another 25,000 US dead, and a million or two Vietnamese (and Cambodians and Laotians) left dead as well. The 60’s overall proved little more than a short-term fashion, the folks wearing bell-bottoms shifting easily from Yippie to Yuppie, like Rubin, ready to follow the Dylan line ironically another way “don’t need a weatherman….” and the wind was blowing from the Right, and money became fashionable, and here decades later $4 cups of fancy-ass coffee is the norm.
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