In a line I remember from TV’s Law & Order, Jack McCoy has just won a case against a fugitive 60s radical and she is sentenced until 2004 (the show obviously was a few years ago). He said, “the 60s should be over by then.” However, they clearly aren’t.
I’m not sure they’re going to be over until everyone who lived through them is gone.
That’s why we have people who are anti-business, anti-US, anti-American flag. That’s why we have situational ethics. “If it feels good baby, do it.”
Can’t we all just get along? some would ask.
OK, the Vietnam War was not very popular – largely because of the way the media portrayed it and the culture of the times.
In a weird kind of perfect storm-type of situation, the peace movement, long hair, draft dodgers, college protests, the drug culture, college students rebelling against the 50s and traditional depression-generation mores of their parents, love-ins, Woodstock, and the Vietnam War all collided in the late 60s and early 70s.
Many people have never recovered.
Add to this cosmic occurrence the exponential growth of TV news coverage, the overt biases of “mainstream” media, the anti-American movies, the anti-capitalism textbooks in our public schools, and the clinging to the hippie-era-feel-good past, and it’s no wonder this country is divided.
September 11, 2001, temporarily changed this and brought people together as Americans. But that faded, and now there are people that think this was an “inside job” or that it was somehow orchestrated to manipulate public opinion.
I really do wish my generation would wake up, but I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen.
Like the Hebrews who had to wander for 40 years in the desert until that generation died off, I think we may need to wait out the Boomers to get this country back. Unfortunately, I’ll never know.
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