Reply #75: Jealousy, mainly, and parental resentments, secondarily. [View All]

Those are the reasons for the attacks on Woodstock, boomers, hippies, and the whole era.

It's the last time radical change was effected. The youngsters do not appreciate that Woodstock followed a six year social revolution that was staggering in its reach. Those of us who lived through the assassinations of JFK, MLK, and RFK in under five years, who lived through the race riots and church bombings of the mid 60s, who lived through the rise and fall of the Vietnam juggernaut and the anti war movement, who lived through the space race, and the nuclear stand off in Cuba know that it was a special time. We saw the sexual revolution, the burning of the bra, the emergence of real feminism, the pill, abortion, and the emerging of miscegenation.

1963-1973 was simply one of the most significant periods in the history of the nation.

This current era has one major accomplishment - the election of Obama, and that is huge.

The main cultural contribution of this era, however, is texting - which will be remembered as the generation that killed syntax, grammar, spelling, the concept of sentences, punctuation, and the concept of paragraphs.