Maggie's Farm

The Sixties Never Happened

Hear me out: The sixties never happened.

No, really. The idea
that generational shifts happen in neat, tectonic fashion, bang-on the
first day of each decade, is useless for encapsulating eras. So I’m
gonna fix it. Well, at least the years between 1952 and 1982. Those
thirty years were split into two parts, not three: The Fixties, and The
Endless Bummer. The thing everyone calls The Sixties never happened.

Wry as usual, mostly about movies. Yeah, the post-war era was very pleasant. Well there was a war in Korea until 1953 (my Dad was a doctor in that one). I was a kid in the 60s, college in the early 70s. Studied hard (no choice) but too much LSD, pot, etc. Tried them all but mostly a strange waste of time. Marched in DC (Ho ho ho, LBJ has gotta go). Kid stuff. College pal died of a heroin OD, another brilliant pal died of an opium OD.