November 16, 2007
The myths from and about the ‘Sixties’ are alive and well, being reinforced by the Media, Sixties relics, provocateurs and wanna-bes infesting educational institutions and the political arena.
A couple of years ago I heard someone of the “Sixties†generation, say, “We were special.â€
As if everyone else isn’t.
The straightforward retort to that “We were special,†statement is “Boy, you’ve got gall.†But at the time, I was too stunned by the arrogant stupidity of it to say anything, and I was in a college setting which was not the best place to nuke such a vacuous comment.
We have to understand what that person is reveling in, well, a mythical time. Myth in the sense that the ‘Sixties’ generation has been taken credit for changes they had nothing to do with. The college revolutions, or rather the revolts by uneducated teenagers and early twenty-somethings occurred around 1969. And by then, first civil rights legislation was passed in 1964, by a bunch of Old White Men, I must add. The ‘Pill’ was available in 1960, and there’s more. All you have to do is read The Death of the Grown-Up by Diana West. She puts forth a collection of ideas and thoughts which will leave you nodding your head.
The adults of the Greatest Generation surrendered to the college adolescents, and went so far as to join them, becoming children themselves. One line from Diana West’s book about the destructive activities occurring on the 60’s campuses goes like this, “Authority and reason would give way to novelty and feelings†(60).
Sounds familiar and contemporary, doesn’t it? Think Global Warming. Reason has been abandoned for feelings. No matter how the facts debunking the hysteria pile up.
But we have to face the fact that to understand the ‘Sixties,’ people need to know and understand what was going on--and when it was going on. And I suspect that is occurring, little by little. It must be, because of the fact that the West book has been published.
The day will come when the ‘Sixties’ will be stripped bare. Then people will be stunned by what didn’t happen, because all there was was a bunch of college students who should’ve been kicked in the backside, and told to get back in the classroom or “Get a job.â€
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Hi William!
Welcome to Mee.nu!
Great post; it makes me think of the concept of ``special`` when used with those less intellectually gifted. I would call the `60`s the spoiled brat era, myself. It really was a bad, self-indulgent time.
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