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Showing Original Post only (View all)You Tell Us: When Did The Spirit Of The '60s End? [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/you-tell-us-when-did-the-60s-end_n_1510682.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=740884,b=facebookYou Tell Us: When Did The Spirit Of The '60s End?
Last week James Franco wrote an anecdotal piece on his experience watching "Gimme Shelter," a film by the Maysles Brothers that involved coverage of the violent incidents that occured at the Altamont concert in 1969. The film, according to Franco, ended up sounding like "the death knell for the flower power of the 1960s." An interesting debate broke out in the comments section of the piece, where contributors gave their own account of the late '60s, and what really marked the end of 'flower power' for them.
Below is a roundup of the most interesting of the differing opinions and accounts. We want to reopen the floor to those who have words to contribute to the conversation.
Tell us in the comments or record a video retelling your experience in the late sixties. What marked the end of the spirit of the '60s for you?
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Which shows a certain lack of imagination and naive belief in white middle-class priviledge,
FarCenter
May 2012
#29
No argument here. No one should ever die from gunfire aimed at them by
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#34
I agree. That only made us more determined. For me the end of our hopes came when RFK was
jwirr
May 2012
#38
Until I personally witnessed the Occupy Los Angeles encampment last fall, I
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#59
I am watching them closely and still have hope that they will be able to pull us together. However,
jwirr
May 2012
#67
Don't even get me started on that union-busting red-baiting son of a bitch Reagan. Also,
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#72
It hasn't ended. Anyone who tries to tell you differently is blind to the changes...
Scuba
May 2012
#3
People who wonder if protest works don't notice we got pretty much every damn thing we fought for.
aquart
May 2012
#18
That's my thought as well. Throughout the 70s you could at least kid yourself that things would
HiPointDem
May 2012
#62
The fact that in todays America "Dirty Fucking" most always precedes "Hippie"...
stlsaxman
May 2012
#19
Those people took off their orange jumpers, smoked reefer, and had sex with each other,
leveymg
May 2012
#21
Excellent point. The period was certainly not a monolith. But do you think
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#24
It's important because of the coming of age of a large cohort of the dominant socioeconomic group
FarCenter
May 2012
#57
Yeah, I totally get what you're saying. I still can't help feeling it as an
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#58
Or the 60s IN Vietnam? Or the 60s in Africa - the one experienced by Patrice Lumbumba?
Taverner
May 2012
#74
From April 4 to June 6, 1968. The finest visionaries of that generation had their brains blown out.
Selatius
May 2012
#64
Bobby Kennedy is the best example of how things and people evolve. IIRC, RFK started out with
coalition_unwilling
May 2012
#75