On a side note, making fun of something doesn’t mean I hate it. I just have the mindset that nothing is off-limits. I will pretty much make fun of anything. I’m good at it, what can I say. hehe

@Brent: I concur simply on the Led Zep part. People just have no idea how experimental their music was. #1 band of all-time, hands down. The Who come in #2.

That and Led Zeppelin

Maybe then we would not be in the quagmire we are in now with no apparent way to win and no easy way to get out.

As far as knowing the best way to run things, I think every 20-something kid feels that he knows a better way to run things. That is part of be being 20-something.

I learn more every day regardless of how old I am. Maybe I will actually know something by the time I am 75 or 80 years old. You live a lifetime learning things, and then you die. It would be nice if we had an easy way to pass on empirical knowledge to the next generation. Maybe then we might not be doomed to repeating the mistakes of the previous generation.

I don’t hate the boomers and even my comments above are not about hatred, they are about seriously questioning those that lead us, whether they are Hoffman or Bush. I also question the ideal that the hippie movement knows the best way to run things.

Isn’t that what you taught us, to question authority? You can’t have hippie movement leaders be off-limits, it doesn’t work that way.

This is the hippie movement in its reality, not smoking pot and listening to Hendrix. People like Hoffman used people like you to get power and money, and they were smart. They picked the group least likely to get mad or feel betrayed or used.

Anyone in power, I don’t care who they are or what group they belong to, they want to hold onto that power and will not readily give it up.

Like Trent Reznor said “Anyone who says power does not corrupt hasn’t had enough of it.”

I am not defending them. I am only mentioning them because the events of that summer changed the anti-war movement. People who were apathetic finally took a stand. Some went anti-war and some went pro-war.

In fact, there were plenty of baby boomers who were pro war. Richard Nixon narrowly defeated Hubert Humphrey in the presidential election, and many political pundits claim that the Chicago riots influenced many who were of the pro-war sentimentality to go to the polls to support Nixon.

If there were no Chicago riots, Humphrey might very well have won the election, and the war might have ended much sooner than it did.

I did not see the documentary 1968. I was a sophomore in college in 1968, so I lived all of this stuff.

Chris, I am sorry you have negative feelings toward my generation, but every generation has to live with results of the previous one.

The reason there was a documentary called 1968 and that Tom Brokaw wrote a book entitled 1968 is because it was such a life changing year.

There are a lot of similarities between 1968 and 2007. Both years had a very polarized population politically. Both years had a war that seemed never ending.

I personally had a very negative feeling toward what the politicians were doing in 1968 and I have a very similar opinion this year.

I certainly do not applaud the events of 1968. The DNC riots and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Bobby Kennedy are nothing to be happy about.

But it was an exciting time to be alive. I am glad I lived through it, despite the negative outcome of many of the events of that year.