The 60's

[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