Model ourselves after the 60's?

[Telly Savalas]

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. The sixties were fine -

it was the seventies that killed us.

[Telly Savalas]

2. But what I'm trying to get at here...

(and was arguing in the other 60's thread) is that perhaps we shouldn't model ourselves after the 60's given how easily things were "undone" in the next decade. And saying things were "undone" in the 70's is being generous in that it assumes that real changes were made which could be "undone".

[getmeouttahere]

3. What's with bashing the 70's???

in April 1970 my parents pulled up stakes from their childhood home of SoCal and with Grandmother and two little kids in tow, moved to Southern Oregon. They had no college degrees, no job prospects, but with a little help from Granny and my aunts and uncles, they purchased 2 1/2 acres of land and built 3 homes on it. Within 1 1/2 years they both had good paying jobs, allowing our family to climb into the burgeoning middle class.

At least in the 70's the middle class was still growing. It was the 80's that saw my Dad laid off from that job of 13 years and he rarely did well until he was forced into retirement because of Multiple Myeloma.

[meganmonkey]

4. We are what we are...

We shouldn't model ourselves after anything. This is a sincere movement based on sincere compassion. That's all.

Some of us are hippies, some of us are straightlaced, some of us just pass ourselves off as straightlaced. Some are 60 years old, others are 40 or 20.

We are what we are.

We wear what we wear.

We chant some of the same chants from the 60's and we make up new ones.

I, for one, am not going to try to be anything. My involvement is based on both reason and compassion, and that is good enough for me.