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TOO BAD THE HIPPIE GENERATION HAS TURNED INTO A BUNCH OF HYPOCRITES

8-8-07|NORML| by John Martin, The Providence

British Columbia
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Last week, I had the good fortune to take in John Fogerty's concert at the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre in Victoria. The former front man for Creedence Clearwater Revival, now 62, is in superb shape and has never sounded better.

It was mainly a boomer crowd. But enough young people were in attendance to suggest Fogerty is still relevant.

After the show, I ended up in one of Victoria's celebrated brewpubs, sitting at the bar beside a young fellow who also had just come from the concert. A self-professed metalhead, he was thoroughly enjoying the show. Then things turned ugly.

It seems partway through the concert, he lit up a joint, only to be told by a 50-plus fellow sitting beside him: "You can't smoke in here, put it out."

He ignored the protestation, only to be on the receiving end of a half-full, plastic beer cup thrown from a few rows behind, landing square on the back of his neck.

"Put that thing out," another boomer yelled.

Regardless of one's opinion on marijuana or smoking in public, this is all quite bizarre.

The boomers invented the ritual of smoking pot at arena rock concerts, and now they beat up on this young guy who's maintaining the tradition.

A John Fogerty concert is one of the last places this could be expected to happen. Fogerty was part of the '60s San Francisco music scene and played Woodstock. His music hasn't changed much over the years. But the same can hardly be said for his audience.

This type of incident is further evidence of a disturbing trend whereby the radicals and protesters who changed society 40 years ago are now insistent on obedient compliance.

Young intellectuals staged sit-ins and demonstrated against rules and structure during the '60s. Now firmly in positions of power, they have established human-rights tribunals and other kangaroo courts to stifle free speech and punish nonconformists.

The generation that challenged and toppled the rigid status quo at universities now prohibits dissenting views on campus, and blatantly uses the education system for purposes of indoctrination.

Those who once proudly questioned authority demand absolute acquiescence to radical feminism, affirmative action, climate-change paranoia, anti-Americanism and other tenets of political correctness.

On top of it, this generation of supposed anti-materialists has accumulated more wealth than any previous generation and made it virtually impossible for anyone under 30 to even dream of owning their own home.

Somehow, the spectacle of a 50-something boomer pelting a young guy with a cup of six-dollar Budweiser for lighting a joint at a rock concert headlined by a '60s rock 'n' roll icon is too surreal to dissect.

So much for the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love.

 

kcbennie

Boomers suck! They are the most spoiled people on the planet. The entire country has catered to these degenerates for their entire life. They might have stood for freedom and change, but only their own freedom and change oly to their desires. They only care about themselves and what they want, and they don't want anyone to have as much as them, be as free as them, and enjoy their life more than them. I can't wait until they all start dying. That last remark will probably raise a few tempers, but I can't help it.

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t-1000

Oh man thank you for this article! I have been saying these things in my mind for a while now... now I have a well written article that completely echoes my sentiments. I'm gonna save this thing and print it out for distribution.

The baby boomers have proven to be the most arrogant and self-righteous generation since the beginning. For all their self-proclaimed intelligent thinking and ideals, we have seen this great country go to hell in a hand-basket under their watch. It makes me want to vomit.

They're putting people in jail for victim-less crimes at an unprecedented rate. The same "crimes" they made their lifestyle in their heyday. What pricks. They quit smoking pot and start combing the country for tokers to toss in jail.

They devote all their thinking and efforts to coming up with new nonsense FAD problems and solutions while they ignore the real problems slapping them upside the head on a daily basis.

War in Iraq? Who gives a shit about Iraq? The terrorists weren't Iraqi, and we have a full fledged daily war being waged on our own people at home!

Our educational system is a joke... highschool students are given origami assignments in science classes and they call playing Monopoly an exercise in accounting.

The IRS could be abolished and replaced with a FAIR sales tax saving the country billions of man hours... oh but of course then the ultra high class wouldn't be able to use a thoroughly convoluted tax system to hide in. The list goes on and on

They just keep coming up with more BS problems that suddenly require more bureaucracies and spending which means... more money stolen from Americans. Surprise, it always leads to one thing. The real Americans get bent over... and they keep voting for it!

Damn them and damn their power to control my life and their unrighteous wielding of it. Like I have said before, when I get my PHD I'll be taking my scholarly, engineering, pot smoking ass somewhere else to live out my days. Why should I work and think so hard to support people who hate me? I actively avoid actions that harm others, but I would nonetheless be condemned by my "leaders".

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Buzzby

Did all the boomers in the country vote to stop this kid from smoking in the concert? I don't think so. It takes a real intellect to castigate the largest segment of the American population based on the actions of two of it's members. I wonder if he condemns all Saudis because 19 of them perpetrated 9/11? I believe the word for that is "bigotry".

Did he interview the two boomers to verify that they used to be radicals and protesters? (Maybe one of each? ) Not everyone was. Not even close to a majority were. Most of the "radicals" and "protesters" were poseurs, just doing what other people were doing and/or doing it to piss off their parents. They found that living outside the mainstream isn't easy, materialism and conformity took over, and they gradually became their parents. Becoming your parents has been the rule over all of human history. Change is gradual and individual.

I'd love to see his evidence that former radicals and the current power-mongers are the same people. Of course, he doesn't need evidence. He's just shooting his mouth off.

I see. He doesn't think that women and minorities should be treated fairly. He doesn't care that civilization may be wiped out by global warming within the next hundred years. He thinks that the Bush regime is spot-on about everything. Where did they find this dolt?

Poor baby! What's really funny is that this writer is condemning them for giving up their non-materialism and in the same sentence berating them because the kiddies can't get enough materialism! Brilliant!

And then we have our own, home-grown intellectual giants...

Here's something to think about. Older generations have always controlled most of the wealth and power. Boomers, when they were kids, were saying the same thing about their parents' and grandparents' generations that you're now saying about them. I'm sure when you hit your 50s and 60s and hold most of the wealth and power, your children and grandchildren will be saying the same thing about you.

It all comes down to "You got it. We want it!"

Why do I waste so much of of my aging, Boomer time trying to help people who hate me because I happened to be born at a certain time in history?

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t-1000

Good points, but I have a few questions.

1. Did the baby boomers not elect the people in power the last 20 years or so? Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton... If so, and you are correct that most were not hippies. I guess they would just be assholes, not hypocrites.
2. How is radical feminism or affirmative action fair?

Forcing women into the Navy Seals isn't fair... it's just foolish.

3. I am currently looking for more than correlative evidence of man's impact on global warming. Is there any real causal evidence? I'm currently researching this. God I just don't have enough time for the non-stop politics.

4. Where is the condemnation for giving up anti-materialism? I don't see where he says they should have stayed that way. The argument is hypocrisy. In that I also have to say the author is incorrect. Hypocrisy would be claiming one attitude and acting on another. Instead it appears the "hippie generation" changed their minds, which is different. That is of course if that was truly the common attitude of the time. The protesters made a lot of noise and stereotyped their generation.

I certainly hope my "mtv generation" changes their ideals as well.

5. I think someone should think about what they are typing before they say they will be happy to watch the boomers die.

Ok, so I don't like this article after all. damnit, but I still don't like how the baby boomers have been handling things

time for bed and then more differential equations

 

Canadian~Bakin

Thats funny... when i went to an aerosmith concert a month ago, the middle agers were toking up with us and some punk ass kids were whining about the smoke. If you don't want to smell smoke, why are you in the crowded section at a huge outdoor music festival????

I think the sell-out baby boomers are the ones who had TOO grand of ideals. I think some of them truly believed they would be the generation to make everything right, and when the world disappointed them, they became cynical and bitter.

Buzzby

Uh... We have an all-volunteer military. Getting into the SEALs is so competitive that few of those who apply even get into training.

I don't know why anybody would want to volunteer for all that pain and abuse, but if a woman wants it and can pass the rigorous training, why shouldn't she be a SEAL?

Any movement that wants to give equal rights to all citizens would seem fair to me. I have mixed feelings about affirmative action myself. Making up for social inequities feels like justice. At the same time, I'd certainly resent it if I was denied a job for which I was better qualified because it went to a less qualified applicant who belonged to a minority.