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To: sageyrain who wrote (79178)	5/17/2008 11:18:34 PM
From: sageyrain	Respond to of 116555

Forgot the link; davesweb.cnchost.com Inside the LC: Part I

To: sageyrain who wrote (79178)	5/18/2008 1:55:18 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116555

sageyrain, your post by alan watt simply shows he has no understanding of what the 60's was about, whatsoever. The 60's was not about any people, any events, like the war, or civil rights and certainly not about music. What the 60's was, was the first categorical, secular awakening of mankind to existential thought. Period!!!!!!! Very few understand this. Tom Brokaw wrote the book Boom about the 60's and Hillary Clinton said: "did you crack the code? I was awestruck that both of them missed it as well. Of course it does require one to sot of understand existentialism, I guess. But let me break existentialism down to its basic foundation, so it is clear what I am saying: Up until the 60's all of the people in the entire world, for all of history, EVERYONE!!!!, lived their lives according to some sort of social - religous/dogmatic script handed to them at birth by their parents and socieity. Still true in most of the world today. In the 60's people started figuring out that one does not have to live their lives according to a social script handed down to them by their society and parents. Each person has the right to live their lives however they want as long as they do not hurt anyone. On top of that the most educated e.g. Berkeley students, realized the norms and mores represented primitive thinking at best and too often bigotry at worst e.g. segregation, women being second class citizens (even today women only have 1% of the worlds wealth, and prejudices e.g. against gays. That won the election for bush last time in Ohio. So those who were able to figure out the above began to investigate a new type of society free of bigotry and simplistic thinking. Which is why most hippies were reading so much and especially peopel like Hesse, Mann, russel, Huxley, Joyce, Baudelair, Malroux, Nietche, Doestevsky, Tolstoy, Twain, Camus and satre and Simon de Bovair (lots of sics there-lol). The demonstrations we saw and the creativity we saw were the results of the new freedom to think for oneself. That is what the 60's was about and it was as powerful a revolution as any in mans history and has defined todays world. The birth of existential thought!