would you want to be alive in the '60s?
every time i watch something like this i envy the people there. wish i could have been around in the 60s and 70s.
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I'd love to have been around in the '60s especially with Monterey and Woodstock. The whole music movement in Los Angeles and San Francisco really interests me.
It would have been so great to have been around in a decade of such culture, change and historic moments.
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While many above were correct to note that there were many negatives in the sixties, one has to realize looking back that there were so many things that came together to make it an era of huge change. Yes, every period has some degree of change in it, but I think it is fair to say not on the same mass scale as you saw in the sixties.
Take the obvious example of music. All these technical, social economic forces came together. Electrified instruments and amplification, vast improvements in music reproduction that became more affordable as the decade went on, the widespread use of first AM radio and the whole transistorized applications, then going into much higher tonal quality FM, then FM stereo, people having the money to spend in records, concerts, and then related merchandise, music stars taking mass phenomena to new heights, the Beatles being the foremost example, all occurring in a culture that valued youth, change and experimentation, while not distracted from more individualized, some might say anti-social, activities such as video games, use of computers, and the like.
It all came together in a unique time. If that is of value to you, of course you would want to be alive then. It's clearly not like that now. Things are so dispersed, fractionalized.
The 60's were a really wild ride, something big happened just about every week and a lot of it was pretty terrible. But all in all it was a giant blast and I'm glad I didn't miss it. You just HAD to have been there!
shareWhat I truly wish, is that I could have been a young teenager during the mid 60's to early 70's, and then skipped a decade and a half to the 90's.
Honestly, I am fascinated by the period of time where the hippie counterculture was open, loud, and prevalent. I feel connected with that period of time from the heaps of knowledge I've obtained about it. I would have correlated with the positive aspects of that time immensely.
I could do without living in the bulk of the 70's and 80's, though I still enjoy some--operative word being 'some'--of the music that emerged during that period. Honestly, I am a huge lover and advocate of the alternative music from the 90's, as well as grunge; though a lot of that music contained negative lyrics at times. I grew up in the 90's, and loved it. I'd also be lying if I said I didn't appreciate the technology of today--however I feel it has become overwhelming in our society. I think it should be appreciated, but not to the point to where it replaces simple activities in life such as connecting with nature, people, and spirituality.
Everyone should watch All My Children.
If I could go back to the late '60s again, I'd like to go back as a college-age youth, not a high school-age teen, which is what I was at the time. Basically, I was too young to go to Woodstock. Unless maybe I'd lived in Greater NYC, which I didn't.
Even with that option, I'd only want to go back for the music. And maybe to be some kind of journalist. The late '60s was a great time to be a reporter for "Rolling Stone," for example. But other than the music and the chance to be a witness to a whole lot of rather interesting American history, well, frankly, the '60s kind of sucked. Mainstream movies, just as one example, were for the most part pretty blah, if you ask me. It wasn't until sometime around 1968 that American movies started to get really interesting.
On the other hand... I did get to see Jack Benny live, and that memory alone is kind of priceless.
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Jax420: Well stated.
After all... tomorrow is another day.
yess!! me toooo
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Some of us didn't have the opportunity to bathe in the luxury of privileged hedonism. We were too busy crawling on our bellies in the muck and mire of a rice paddy praying to God to spare our lives.
Who am I kiddin' who am I foolin' when they be like "What's up Fatlip?" and I say, "Coolin."