#103

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>Hey, man, I was jes' talking 'bout my generation!  As Easy Rider put it:  
>>"We blew it."
>
>Compared to what? Tom Brokaw's Greatest Generation? The Lost Generation? 
>Xers? Gen Y? Gen A'?
>
>Yeah, I know it's fun to dis the 60s as a time of indulgence and stupidity 
>and failure to stop the war machine. But most of those things that Chomsky 
>says makes the U.S. a more civilized place now than 40 years ago started in 
>the 60s, with folks in our cohort: feminism, Stonewall, the environmental 
>movement, distrust of the system of imperial lies. "Vietnam syndrome" 
>inhibited the U.S. ruling class for years. Lots of younger people took up 
>the fight in subsequent years, but why be so pessimistic?

During the sixties, the air was electric with the sense that a great social 
transformation was possible and indeed at hand.  Step one, stop the war!  
Step two, socialism!  Yes, the Aquarians had a rendezvous with history to 
end all rendezvous!  And what happened?  Forty years later we're living in a 
completely militarized society that's more plutocratic than anything seen 
since the Gilded Age.  Boomers bear heavy responsiblity for this fiasco.

Carl

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