The 60's

[charlie sherrill]

Study Rome and see the future. For some reason the Romans were able to hold it together longer. Our biggest enemies are the media. They just don't realize they will be the first to be eliminated.

 

[rwsmith]

To rattle your memory

Psychedelic
Far Out
Turn on, tune in, drop out
Make Love Not War
War is not good for children and other living things
Flower Power
Sit in
Lid
Bogart
Bread
Bummer
Outta Sight
What's your bag, man?
Bad Trip
Day Glo
Groovy
Let it all hang out
Never trust anybody over 30
Paisley
Peace
Dig
Fab
Flower Child
Nehru
Granny Glasses

And the beat goes on.......

 

[Rangerpat]

Wow rwsmith, that's real far out and groovy!
Thanks for sharing, dude....

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

Counter culture self-absorbed drug-addled minds with no respect for authority. Who raised such a generation? The counter culture would be known as Baby Boomers, and by some estimations the worst generation. Ironic that the Greatest Generation would raise the worst.

Great music in the 60s. Much of it endures to this day where music of the 50s has largely gone quiet a long time ago.

Right on!

 

[ordy]

These images are iconic and thought provoking for me. It was a time of such social upheaval and so many of us drank the cool-aid. A far cry from leave it to beaver and ozzie nelson. So much anger and frustration going on from several different fronts. Ironic that the great unwashed generation preached peace and love while the militant factions of that sub culture expressed it in such a violent manner.

 

[williamlayton]

The 50' made the 60's and it had to come to pass because of the 40's.
We are all responsible and participated in all of it. Remember the beat generation and coffee houses. Remember the establishment putting down the youth who just wanted to grow up.
The 40's hampered a youth movement or any sort and those folks did their thing in the 50's when they created a mid-life change and it took on a life of its own in the 60's.
You don't remember.
Blessings

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Counter culture self-absorbed drug-addled minds with no respect for authority. Who raised such a generation? The counter culture would be known as Baby Boomers, and by some estimations the worst generation. Ironic that the Greatest Generation would raise the worst.

Great music in the 60s. Much of it endures to this day where music of the 50s has largely gone quiet a long time ago.

Right on!

Interesting observation-they certainly didn't do it out of anything but love-in retrospect misguided perhaps but they tried to give their children what they grew up without. We do our best and then close our eyes tight and pray it works. Nobody sets out to intentionally mess up their kids.

 

[HorizontalMike]

I did not care for the video author's current(2013) openly biased Right Wing comments inserted in various parts of the video. That and the image of Nagaski/Hiroshima was out of place as well. The author's foul mouthed responses on the YouTube comments explained it all to me.

I am out of here...

And yes, been there done that...

 

[JcMack]

There was a darkside to all the new found freedom of the 60's. The drug culture was not all the fun n games portrayed by Cheech n Chong. We'll never know how many kids OD'ed or addicted themselves forever. The 60's produced a kind of renewed drug acceptance that was so hard to get rid of at the turn of the century. A real darkside to the movement were the kids left home forever to join the society drop outs and fell victim to the freaks amongst them. A lot of kids were never heard from again.

 

[Boox]

just remember...some of those protesters, marchers, antiwar zealots who were smart enough to see that a bunch of old guys in Washington were far more interested in getting greeners in their hands that they were worried about the young men and women who were dying over there...also check out McNamara's 100,000...I know because I had to train them...

 

[Dennis The B]

The "Greatest Generation" either worked through, or was raised during the "Great Depression". No one who lived through both eras, would want their children to suffer in any manner because of those eras.

After WWII, they went back to work, expanded and grew the economy, and set a standard of living unheard of in the world. With no impending danger (war, depression), the guard gets dropped, and parents become overly tolerant, and sometimes doting. What is normally a grandparent phenomenon (doting), became an everyday occurrence.

Little wonder that kids who didn't have to do without, become spoiled.

This wasn't a 100% occurrence, but it was enough to cause the problems in the '60's.

 

[perrazi]

didn't watch your video. been there and done that at the time. was the start of the dumbing down of the country.

 

[M29since14]

Just remember. The same morons in those pictures, are the same morons who are teaching in our schools and colleges.

That's not the only place you will find them. Our government appears to be loaded with them, their brains operating with varying levels of honor and sensibility, their judgment about as good now as it was then.

 

[rwsmith]

It was more like....

TThe drug culture was not all the fun n games portrayed by Cheech n Chong.

That's absolutely right. It was more like 'The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'.

 

[Roadtrash]

Well I was born in '45 so I grew up in the 50's and 60's. Never been on drugs and don't have a prison record, at least not yet. Maybe because I grew up in a one parent family and had to work for everything I ever had. No body ever doting on my sister and me. From '65 till '69 Uncle Sam kept me in line.

Did a few wild things in my life but never let them control me. Who knows, maybe I just never had the time to "tune in and drop out."

 

[petepeterson]

Study Rome and see the future. For some reason the Romans were able to hold it together longer. Our biggest enemies are the media. They just don't realize they will be the first to be eliminated.

Rome held it together longer because information traveled slower. But all empires eventually fall. The 60's had TV. We now have the glorious internet, which is accelerating the downfall of the US "empire" faster than ever.

 

[big&slow]

That's absolutely right. It was more like 'The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers'.

Fat Freddie's cat was my fav.

 

[Pilgrim]

SONNY & CHER "THE BEAT GOES ON" (1967) ORIGINAL RECORDING - YouTube