A poll for my fellow Generation X'ers (or anyone younger)

[NightTrain]

QUESTION: Are you sorry to have missed the 1960s?

[youngred]

1. One can still fight if one is not young these days

so yeah I'd love to have at least experienced the 60s.

I still like living now though(for one thing there was no DU in the 60s!)

[Kahuna]

2. Not a genXer. Didn't vote. But, the 60s were great...

Very exciting time to be young and alive. I'd go back in a heartbeat. It beats the hell out of Generation Shrub. Of course, I was just a kid at the time. But, it was a gas even for a kid. The movements, the cultural revolution and the music were very exhilarating.

[Deja Q]

3. The right-wingers stole when they murdered

some Kennedys (JFK & RFK) and MLK Jr.

Had they lived, and especially if Reagan didn't get elected Prez (dodging a certain bullet, pardon the pun...), this world would be a FAR, FAR better place.

Darn right they were murdered. :tinfoilhat: They WERE dangers to established society of the time. They were progressives. True progressives. Progressives who were popular. And people who think that way and speak out often seem to end up dead. And nobody's found out why Wellstone's plane mysteriously failed and the weak attempt of blaming the weather didn't fly, even for the media who said it because they quickly allowed it to go silent.

The untimely deaths of liberals has happened far too often during the last 40 years NOT to conjuecture the possibility.

[HEyHEY]

4. yesssss

Woulda loved em

[pnorman]

5. I'm close to 74 now,

and was more of an interested bystander during the 60s ("Never Trust A Teenager over Thirty"!). But I voted #2 on that list, just to be ornery.

[AquariDem]

6. I'd prefer the 70's

The decade of the women's movement and Jimmy Carter.

[Melsky]

7. Am I a generation Xer?

I'm 34. I voted in the poll because I can't remember the 60s, I was only one year old. I'm glad to be living today because I love computers! It's not like I have a choice anyhow.

[LastKnight]

8. the music alone made me say yes...

hell, hendrix, beatles, and then when the 70s roll around you got zeppelin... thats enough for a yes vote...

-LK

[populistmom]

9. I always thought Woodstock would have been really cool!

I remember in 1994 when the did the 25 year anniversary, I had this overwhelming desire to go. I was 22, but also married with a 2 year old and being the super-responsible type, didn't go of course. From what I've heard, that one wasn't bad (nowhere near the original), but the 1999 one was a an even more corporate disaster.

[SOteric]

10. I got to live through the echo of the sixties.

My eldest brother gave me all his albums when he grew tired of them.

We lived near Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, and my two eldest brothers used to kind of be beatniks. -Especially the one who went school in Berkley.

It's odd to feel nostalgia for something you didn't actually experience, but I do feel like I saw the era around its edges.

[THUNDER HANDS]

11. yes I'm pissed I missed it

I would have got a firsthand view of what it was really like back then. Because I can't believe the world has changed so much.