The noise has lessened of late but you know how some people were touting Gen Y as the greatest generation? As I've said, it's been done before:
"The image of the famed 1960s anti-war movement as being fueled by idealism, representing the entire baby boomer generation, and ending the Vietnam War also received a sound thrashing at the Hillsdale symposium."".... it was not idealism that motivated the 1960s anti-war movement, but, rather, the military draft and the desire of adherents to avoid serving in Vietnam. What else accounted for the veritable disappearance of the once mighty anti-war movement after President Nixon ended the draft in 1973?....
Furthermore, far from representing the entire baby boomer generation, the anti-war movement constituted a societal fringe.... those out protesting the war represented only a fraction of the population.
As for ending the war itself, it was general war-weariness, as well as the fallout from failed political and military policies, that, according to Medved, were the true cause of its demise.
I'm still not a hippie dude, but I did start growing my hair out again...damn, maybe I'm in trouble here.
Posted by: Ryan Paugh | October 10, 2007 at 11:29 PM
Hey, Dude, you missed the point. You don't have to have long hair, take drugs or long to live in a rural commune to be filled with generational hubris.
Moreover, the classic sixties generation was made up of a-political hippies and very political New Leftists. Their styles and interests were fused somewhat in the Yippie party by led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. But they were very different. So saying that you are not a hippie does not disqualify you.
Posted by: Recruiting Animal | October 11, 2007 at 06:29 AM
No, I get it. I just think you're making a stretch.
Posted by: Ryan Paugh | October 11, 2007 at 10:19 AM