Posted by
Kevin Herrick on Wednesday, October 07, 2009 7:00:00 AM
The '60's were to bring about the dawning of a new age - The Age of Aquarius, where We, the young, would bring about real peace and love and happines. Yeah right. 1969 went from the orgy of sex and drugs that was Woodstock (I almost went there but decided at the last minute not to..I really do wish I had gone) to the orgy of murder by Manson and his band of self proclaimed hippies.
Most of my friends at College were Education Majors. Most were idealistic about making a real difference in teaching. Politically we were going to take the decisons out of the smoke filled rooms and into the hands of those who knew best how our political sysgtem should work - US.
We saw that our culture was all screwed up. It was too repressive. We wanted free sex and legalized drugs.Organized Religion was getting in the way so we dumped that for Yogis, swamis, enlightened masters from India and the far east who knew far more than our Priests, Rabis and Ministers and especially our parents, poor clueless repressed people that they were!
Yes, We wuz gonna really shake things up and change the world for the better. The old folks were too stuborn and set in their ways to change, at least most of them so we focused on the young - on the school systems. Get rid of the tired old Us History and Civics etc and replace them with minority histories, with World History where according to European appeasers, America was THE problem not the solution. We started with the very young, replacing kid's first reading books like David and Ann and Zip with Elmer and Cuthbert have two mommies - or two Daddys. We tossed out prayer and the Pledge of Alligiance as these awful concepts might offend little Bawney or Dweezel or Moon Spirit or who ever.
WOW! This new Age of Aquarius was sure going to be great! Why it took thousands of years for us to come along and usher it in!!!
Fast forward - The end of the '70's find us in deep malise - STAGFLATION wafted over the land. Gasoline rationing and hours long lines at stations had been the norm. Our embasy officials in Iran were held hostage for over 400 days - Why YES! It was the Glory Days of that loathsome and despicable Hamas lovin' Isreal hating worst President of the 20th Century good ole Jimma Cah-ta.This New Age of Aquarius sure was great so far, huh?
Meanwhile back in the schools, a generation of dumbed down functional illiterates were unleashed on society under the guise that social promotion was needed for the self esteem of those too lazy or stupid to learn basic skills like reading and writing - you know real hard stuff. If students couldn't be forced to learn then teachers didn't have to really teach. Time could be spent discussing things like gay marriage and carbon foot prints and Global Warming and how if only America wasn't so strong, so arrogant, so - AMERICAN, what a better place the world would be. Europe would love us. Russia would be allowed IT's turn to lead the world. If only we didn't support Isreal the Muslim states would love us.
As my generation got older some of us grew up and matured politically. Most just got old, still thumb thucking, whining wanting their own way. Gone was political civility. Gone were Giants of the House and Senate. People like Hubert Humphrey, Henry Jackson, Everett Dirkson, Barry Goldwater, Mike McCormick, etc. replaced by Bawney Fwank, Nancy Pelosi, Charles "Chuckie Schmuckie Cheese" Schumer, Chris Dodd , Joey The Clown Biden and Al "Gas Bag" Gore.
Those hearlding the Age Of Aquarious did so through dissent. Through demonstrations, by questioning the establishment, by exercising their right to free speach and assembly now atempt to cut off all debate on topics such as "Global Warming" and health care reform. Anyone disagreeing with the establishment ruling Party are called RACISTS and MOBSTERS and anti-American.There is no longer good and evil, right or wrong only moral realativism what ever that is. Back in the '60's and '70's we said we were fighting for FREEDOM, for Justice, for acces to the political system, for OPEN DEBATE on the issues. What happened to all that?
My generation sold out it's ideals in return for POWER. The power we said we were fightinng against!.Universities are no longer places for exploring ideas and issues, now only one viewpoint is allowed on campus. The left claimed we were fighting for the masses, for the oppressed everywhere, for woman's rights - WELL, where is NOW and CODE PINK and others regarding the horrible treatment of women in Muslim countries? Where is the outrage? Where are the demonstrations against dictators like Hugo Chavez who has killed all dissent?
Yes, looking back to the late 1960's it is funny how a "New Age" that was supposed to change the whole political system for the good
has morphed into the ARROGANT, Pork gorged, intolerant shrill ESTABLISHMENT! The Age of Aquarious never dawned - it ushered in The Age of Nefarious! What a shame.
And thats, My View From The Right