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In reply to the discussion: The Pretty Little Hippie Chicks Are Grandmas Now. [View all]Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)but I would like to think the OP is talking about what we got out of all of the social awareness movements at the time. I think it affected us profoundly and many/most of us have carried those moral imperatives with us throughout our lives. I know I certainly have. The wiglets (we used to call them "falls" and the go-go boots were just silly styles manufactured by Madison Avenue, but that doesn't negate the values we learned back then. Hell, as I'm typing this on my laptop I'm sitting in the floor, cross-legged, in my micro-macrame studio. (I'm not kidding.) I'm still a liberal (oftentimes WAY too liberal for DU), I still work on important causes (GMO's and fracking are my latest), I still protest, I keep myself informed and try to remain self-aware. Those were certainly lessons that weren't taught to me at home. These were things I learned about in the 60's and 70's. Anyway, just another perspective.