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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (85826)	8/20/2000 7:52:40 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think that the '60s was the crucial decade, when more harm than good occurred. I'm curious: what harm do you think was done? It seems to me that a lot of good came out of the '60s. The civil rights and women's rights movements may not have solved all of the problems they addressed (that is only natural; problems that have festered for centuries take a good deal of solving) but they took those problems permanently out of the closet and placed them in the mainstream of political discourse, which I have to count as a huge positive achievement. Another positive was the resistance to a reckless and unnecessary war that was initiated in circumvention of legal processes and was wasting American lives and money in pursuit of no necessary objective. The effective resistance represented a real restraint on central government action by the direct application of popular pressure; I would think that a good conservative would approve. Certainly the '60s marked the first time in decades when distrust for central authority became fashionable, but I can't see why any real conservative would be upset about that. Of course all the drug use and sexual display looked a bit sloppy, but it was mostly just fun, and after the stifling conformity of the '50s, what could anyone expect? These things have always run in cycles; a pendulum doesn't stand still. So what caused all the harm?