"Tal-kin' 'bout my g-g-generation...."
Interesting to see dialogue about it all from the next generations.
Just a couple of small things....
It was Max Yasgur's farm, not Lesters.
CSNY did (four dead in) OHIO, not Buffalo Springfield, though I understand the confusion, because Stills and Young were members of Buffalo Springfield.
And semi-official reports were 500,000 attendees, though there are no completely accurate counts.
In discussions I've had over the last few days with members of my own generation, one acquaintance put it this way...
"It was a four day event where some of the best ideals were lived out, never to happen again."
As Brickowski says, the single most outstanding significance was there were a half million people all in close quarters with scarce food, water, and accommodations, and they not only made it work, they did it without any hostility.
For someone who lived in the 1960s, it's hard to describe the experience, at least for me it is.
500,000 people in close quarters with very low hostitilies is called a typical football weekend at Penn State. It happens frequently.
It just seems that virtually every single thing the hippie movement stood for died in 1969 and now people that were hippies or lived through it are living out the oppositte of their ideals.
If the movement wants to take credit for the good they created then they need to take credit for the bad they created too.
Like the 4 that were shot at Youngstown St. That was after they burned buildings. What did they think would happen?
Hippies went into professors' offices and destroyed their life work (obviously not at Woodstock) and took dumps on their desks.
The song "I ain't no senator's son" doesn't describe anything that happened in real life.
I'm surprised people would attribute civil rights to hippies. I just never saw it that way
Hmm..
interesting that you'll take a history lesson from Red but not from someone from the era.
'I'm not no senator's son' has a definite bearing on real life and is a direct referral of what was happening at the time. Some rich and privileged (senators) individuals' draft age children were getting draft deferrals. Many thought unfairly so.
The Kent State shootings - where did you get that from? The four killed did nothing of the sort. A few were innocent bystanders.
No one said hippies only take credit for good things. That is your own misconception. Certainly some good and some bad reverberated from the era.
Like it or not, the hippie movement played a huge part in the times.
It was all intertwined. Civil rights, anti war protests, women's rights, generation gap, proliferation of drug use.
Revisionists will always exist, I guess.