Monday, July 06, 2009
60s Day Continued: Peace Signs
Recently I've seen a resurgence in fashion accessories with peace signs. I don't know why it bothers me so much, but it does. I think it's a combination of things. Firstly, I associate it with people who unthinkingly and unilaterally call for peace. They have no context or conditions for anything but peace. This is extremely naive. Secondly, there's a crowd who don it because they like what that side of the 60s represented: free love, drugs and self-righteous protest. I see it as a destructive period that I'd rather leave in the past.
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1 comments:
Ummm.....
yes, and yes.
There's a strong argument to be made that the 60's, and Baby Boomers in general, destroyed the cultural fabric of this nation, which was largely responsible for the 184 years of continuous growth, prosperity and vitality it had enjoyed since its founding.
Aside from Ronnie rallying the troops for a decade, it's been 45 years of cultural decay, least-common-denominator morality, gratification over stewardship, and self-hatred (of the USA) ever since.
It just goes to show, the same generation that was the most licentious in our history in terms of substances, sex, and self-serving plans has also been, by and large, the least satisfied generation with the most to gripe about.
See it (continuing to) happen right now in the "this can't be happening to us" attitude w/r/t the financial crisis, as baby boomers approach retirement. They were just entitled to so much more than this. Why is the government/rich people/fates/goddesses doing this to them?