Comment 63018

By Undustrial (registered) - website | Posted May 03, 2011 at 12:25:00 in reply to Comment 62958

There's just something about blaming a generation for the world's problems that doesn't quite sit right with me.

Most Boomers weren't anywhere near Woodstock. Most didn't wear flowers in their hair, burn bras or any of that, either. Of those who did, how many were really adherents to a totally different worldview, rather than more focused on single issues (civil rights, war, etc) and or drugs/music? I don't know, I wasn't there, but it seems to me to be far more complicated than a sell-out en-masse. Nothing I've seen in my own generation suggests it's that simple.

Also, there's a pretty serious history of political repression, particularly through the 1970s. What would the world look like today without COINTELPRO? Without the wave of CIA-backed coups in Latin America and elsewhere? People didn't just give up and go home - they were targeted, groups were broken up, leaders arrested, and many (particularly black or native leaders) were simply murdered. That kind of thing really squelches effective organization.

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