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would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's?
#19189346 - 11/25/13 10:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I sure would. I figure it would put you in your 70's so you could still be alive. Or possibly dead. You would miss out on technology and research chems. Lol. Some are gold. Every time I watch fear and loathing and it gets to this quote I tear up a little and ponder the question..
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time —and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.
My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L. L. Bean shorts and a Butte sheepherder's jacket . . . booming through the Treasure Island tunnel at the lights of Oakland and Berkeley and Richmond, not quite sure which turn-off to take when I got to the other end (always stalling at the toll-gate, too twisted to find neutral while I fumbled for change) . . . but being absolutely certain that no matter which way I went I would come to a place where people were just as high and wild as I was: No doubt at all about that. . . .
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: highc] 5
#19189371 - 11/25/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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no. they probably weren't as great as you think. they probably kind of sucked, actually. yeah the music was better but problems were aplenty.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: highc] 2
#19189372 - 11/25/13 10:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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NOPE.
It sounds great but EVERYTHING in the past (at least in my past) always sounds better then it actually was.
I'd much rather be able to communicate with anyone on the world with a few taps on a screen and have access to hundreds of drugs instantaneously then have cheap acid and a shitton of weirdos to do it with. Having a society full of drug users sounds great but in reality those people were likely similar to the types of people we have in society today. I'm sure there were many of the same obnoxious, egotistical, dirty, gluttonous, douchebags you find in society today. The few videos we have of that time appear to be filmed through rose-colored glasses of nostalgia.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: highc]
#19189403 - 11/25/13 10:21 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I would have probably died from an overdose so no.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Sham87]
#19189433 - 11/25/13 10:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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no, i already know what happened. it would be boring. like watching the same movie twice
maybe i'd like to grow up in the 60s in canada. i have no clue what was going on there 50 years ago.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Envix] 2
#19189439 - 11/25/13 10:26 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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They lynched Negros at that time...racists
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: 245willow19]
#19189482 - 11/25/13 10:34 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I wouldn't give up life as i know it completely. If I could have my same family, friends, and pets I'd be game
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: dontknow] 1
#19189510 - 11/25/13 10:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I sure would. I figure it would put you in your 70's so you could still be alive. Or possibly dead. You would miss out on technology and research chems
No. I wouldn't give up life because of a lack of technology and fucking research chemicals.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: dontknow]
#19189520 - 11/25/13 10:41 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Nah man, the world is so much better now than it was then. The only thing was there was a lot going on. But a lot HAD to go on during the time, you know?
Like civil rights. It must have been pretty cool to see that stuff going down, but it was going down because blacks were treated like shit.
Hippies were cool, but they existed because of how straightlaced everyone was.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Niffla]
#19189523 - 11/25/13 10:41 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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i would not want to live in the 60's.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Niffla] 3
#19189559 - 11/25/13 10:49 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Anyone ever watch "Midnight in Paris" ? A bit cheesy, but touches on this point well. Every generation wants to live in the last glory days. But really, these glory days come every 40-60 years it seems. Before the '60s it was the roaring '20s. The time of prohibition, woman's rights movement, etc. You know, Gatsby type shit. sounds fun too. Then before that, it was the Victorian age in the late 1800's. So much beautiful art and literature. And opium. Point being, is that the past always seems better when it's glorified like it is. Which it is. We're living is such an amazing fucking time right now, I'm so glad to be growing up in it. We're witnessing the rise of the internet. The mass globalization of humanity. The rise of the technological world and the death of organized religion. The legalization of marijuana, and the shunt of prejudice beliefs and actions.
Just saying, don't waste time trying to live in the past and miss the present. I guarantee we're gonna hear our kids and grand kids wishing they grew up when we did as well
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: MrHill] 1
#19189577 - 11/25/13 10:53 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Parrott said: Anyone ever watch "Midnight in Paris" ? A bit cheesy, but touches on this point well. Every generation wants to live in the last glory days. But really, these glory days come every 40-60 years it seems. Before the '60s it was the roaring '20s. The time of prohibition, woman's rights movement, etc. You know, Gatsby type shit. sounds fun too. Then before that, it was the Victorian age in the late 1800's. So much beautiful art and literature. And opium. Point being, is that the past always seems better when it's glorified like it is. Which it is. We're living is such an amazing fucking time right now, I'm so glad to be growing up in it. We're witnessing the rise of the internet. The mass globalization of humanity. The rise of the technological world and the death of organized religion. The legalization of marijuana, and the shunt of prejudice beliefs and actions.
Just saying, don't waste time trying to live in the past and miss the present. I guarantee we're gonna hear our kids and grand kids wishing they grew up when we did as well 
   
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: MrHill] 2
#19189591 - 11/25/13 10:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I love your response. We DO live in an abso-fucking-lutely amazing time to be a drug dabbling progressive member of society.
The only reason people will tell you otherwise is because the norms of the society we used to live in are being ripped apart at the seams. The government is failing, mass religion is failing, the drug war is failing, and the war on terrorism is failing. I hate to brag, but my generation (the kids in college right now) are not idiots. We see the shitshow our grandparents put us in, and when we get control of the wheel you better believe the car is going the opposite direction. We're going back home friends.
These past 5 years (and next 10 or so) are slated to become some of the most beautifully DIFFERENT years from our history. Pessimists will point to all of the problems and go "but we have to worry about THIS and THIS and..." but if you think about it there has never been a more connected and self-regulated world than the world of today.
We owe it to the fucking internet man. It's up there with Agriculture and Spoken word.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: ModestMouse] 2
#19189602 - 11/25/13 10:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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ModestMouse said: I love your response. We DO live in an abso-fucking-lutely amazing time to be a drug dabbling progressive member of society.
The only reason people will tell you otherwise is because the norms of the society we used to live in are being ripped apart at the seems. The government is failing, mass religion is failing, the drug war is failing, and the war on terrorism is failing.
These past 5 years (and next 10 or so) are slated to become some of the most beautifully DIFFERENT years from our history. Pessimists will point to all of the problems and go "but we have to worry about THIS and THIS and..." but if you think about it there has never been a more connected and self-regulated world than the world of today.
We owe it to the fucking internet man. It's up there with Agriculture and Spoken word.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Schmendrick]
#19189638 - 11/25/13 11:05 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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The sixties were fucked you couldn't even say, "nigger cocksucker cum slob," in public.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Konyap]
#19189659 - 11/25/13 11:08 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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No, I would of caught aids or something and probably be dead right now
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Everlong]
#19189668 - 11/25/13 11:10 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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It ended badly. They all ended up homeless and insane drug addicts.
No thanks.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Enjoywho]
#19189676 - 11/25/13 11:12 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Even the beatles went to haigh ashberry and thought it was disgusting. It's an overly glorified time.
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Everlong]
#19189689 - 11/25/13 11:14 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Everlong said: No, I would of caught aids or something and probably be dead right now
You would have had a better chance of fucking 80 chicks before your cock fell off from Vietnamese gonorrhea then catching aids at the time
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Re: would you give up life as you know it to have grown up in the 60's? [Re: Konyap]
#19189696 - 11/25/13 11:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Illyabo said:
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Everlong said: No, I would of caught aids or something and probably be dead right now
You would have had a better chance of fucking 80 chicks before your cock fell off from Vietnamese gonorrhea then catching aids at the time
I never said I would of caught it during that time period, I was more worried about the fact that it wasn't really known about until the 80s.
Thus, I would of probably got aids and would be dead by now.
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