Why I hate the Sixties

[Ellie]

Interesting BBC documentairy.
This BBC film examines the myth behind the sixties, which was itself created before the decade was even out but has since lingered in all of our minds. What we have lived with however is merely a mirage and this documentary sets about exposing the truth, suggesting that we are living on borrowed time as a result of those who indulged whilst an unchecked Britain experienced an industrial decline. Looking back on old archived footage and the political atmosphere of the time a case is built against the decade we all consider to be filled with dreams.

Why I Hate the Sixties (2004)

[uintatom]

I was a child during that time but looking back here in the US it seems to me that there was a legitimate peace movement that was quickly drenched in drugs, at first semi harmful and eventually destructive. It seems to me the movement was completely delegitimized by the powers that be.

[Bill10558]

I was a teenager during these times in the 60’s, defiantly growing my hair over my ears to the dismay of my elders. Even did a few drugs, by no means a pothead. Without television I doubt anyone would have known a counter culture and the “Viet Nam conflict”, war was never declared by Congress, existed. I know I wouldn’t have living in a small town in Wyoming. Looking back now, and reading the declassified documents, yes social engineering at its finest. And on and on…it goes. My only excuse? Too young and dumb to know better.

[Sandygirl]

I had a cousin who died in Nam, my best friend brother died and my local newspaper listed their names once a month. In 1973 I was 19 and moved into a house with my boyfriend. We met the guy across the street who invited us over to watch his slide show of fighting in Nam. Wow what a wake up that was!!! It was so very graphic, he was angry and upset while pointing out his first kill and then others. Seeing those pictures made the war so much more real.
“War, huh, what is it good for, absolutely nothing” Hendrix.
War is very good business for certain elites, it can accomplish so many different agendas. But it’s slow moving and change takes time to build the narrative, while the plandemic was implemented in real time, fast and furious. Media at it’s finest hour.

[justawhoaman]

I had lots of friends who went as I graduated from high school in 1968- none came back the same, some didn’t make it back at all. I then went to the “Berkley of the Midwest” so I was thrust into the middle of the insanity- surrounded by drugs and college orgies. If I did not have strict parents that I could not possibly let down, I might have succumbed- despite Black Action Movements, SDS and Weathermen blowing up the ROTC building, etc- I managed to make the dean’s list.

We made a friend with a CO that had been a medic in Nam and once, walking down the street in a group, a car backfired and we found him under a parked car. It happened FAST. Then, years later, after graduate school working in Fort Lauderdale, I met a neighbor who was Polynesian and a local cop who showed me his ear collection from Nam. That pretty much rounded out the picture for me.

[David8pies]

Yes, Co-opted as is usually the case…but something came of it nevertheless…

[uintatom]

What came of it ?
Did the war end earlier than it would have ?

[David8pies]

Some decent music came of it, but I think what it did do was to make some of the people aware that the “War”-1914-1945-2022 never ended…It just changed venues, and didn’t make the front page…

[Bahri]

Le Corbusier was a fairly influential architect, here’s an unusual famous chapel he designed:

Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut - Le Corbusier - World Heritage

Does seem like a lot went wrong in the 60s.

[David8pies]

Reminds me of a mushroom, obliquely…

[Bahri]

1962 airport terminal at JFK:

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(By Eero Saarinen, from Finland)