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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM, radtimes <[email protected]> wrote: > Huntsville Times columnist Ricky Thomason on the '60s. > > http://blog.al.com/times-views/2009/12/huntsville_times_columnist_ric.html > > by Ricky Thomason > December 06, 2009 > > HUNTSVILLE, Ala. _ I often listen to music when I write. It seems every > other song from the sixties and seventies is about love, loving your > brothers and sisters. > > Somehow, somewhere, the love train of the children of the sixties jumped > the track and went off the rails. > > "Children of the sixties" is a term that conjures images of Woodstock, rock > and roll, free love and drugs. > > Despite the romanticized legend, most who came of age in that era saw > little of the lot of that; we myth'd it. > > They say if you remember the sixties, you didn't have fun, and maybe I > didn't, not enough anyway. > > Many 'boomers remember many things about the sixties, so I'm not alone. Try > as hard as we may have to kill as many brain cells as we could, it sometimes > seems we altered reality less than our chromosomes. > > We may have reproduced a twisted genetic helix of offspring tightly wound > around a selfish, materialistic, me-me-me core. > > Myriad moms and dads have asked, "How can everything you ever wanted not be > enough?" > > I feel alone when I stand on the crossties of the trestle of now, look back > and see the rail of yesterday parallel the railing of today. > > It's the track on which history's train runs, memory tracks that grow > smaller in perspective until they merge at the vanishing point on the > horizon of time. > > I think I remember someone telling me that the memory horizon moves farther > into the purple haze as we age, but I can't remember who, what, when, where, > or why they told me that if they did. > > Let's just see what The Who happened to My Generation, the bunch who asked > "Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?" > > Seems we still can't get no satisfaction, but still like our jack, so keep > your hands off of our stacks. > > What happened to the children of the sixties? > > Many are still here, in our sixties, acting like children. > > Woodstock? > > That would be the butt of our NRA rifle. The non-violent embraced violence > and beat plowshares into swords like none or no one before. > > Rocking and rolling? > > Those are two chairs; one we sit in on the front porch, the other we roll > in when we scooter around the grocery stores and casinos. > > Free love? > > There was never any such thing. Still isn't. Remember, you pay for love, > but the hate comes free. Two of the three fastest rising things today are > the cost of Viagra and the STD rate among seniors, still free-loving > children of the sixties. Pull that thing over, granny; it's time for the > breathalyzer. > > Drugs? > > Drugs cost the children of the sixties back then; they're free for them > now. What Medicare doesn't pay for, Social Security does. > > Warning: clinical trials conducted over the past twelve months have proven > that the most likely side effects of taking free drugs in combination with > government support include wearing your britches as high as possible, > griping about the government incessantly, aka," gumming the hand that feeds > you," hatred of kids and other little animals on your lawn, an abhorrence of > taxes - though most collect more than they pay - an irrational fear of > socialism, defined as "free medical care and government aid for anyone other > than themselves," or as some call it, "Their maybe-socialism may interfere > with my definite socialism." > > In many cases a new disease known as "Tempest In a Tea Bag" syndrome may > increase the risk of stroke and myocardial infarction due to the sudden > increase in blood pressure associated with news events and cultural change. > > In the purple haze of my memories, I confuse them with codgers in the > sixties who referred to segregation as "the good ol' days." > > Warning: pointing that out to the guilty 60's teabaggers can be hazardous > to your health. As the band, "Heart," sang, they may "Go Crazy On You." > -- > > Ricky Thomason's e-mail: [email protected]. > > . > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sixties-L" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<sixties-l%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en. > > > >--
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