[katyseagull]

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Why was there more intergenerational warfare during these decades? Did it have to do with the drug culture and the hippy attitudes or something? I guess to some degree I thought all generations had some intergenerational anger going.

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I hardly know what to say to this, but it fills me with dread that you would ask. Unfortunately, our history has been so ignored and whitewashed that it doesn't seem as out of place as I would hope. I'm not sure what I can say that is constructive and doesn't sound mean, and I like you very much Katy, so I'm just going to sit on your comment and questions for a while and hope that someone can find something constructive to say before I am forced to come up with something that tries not to alienate you but fails, or takes 45 paragraphs, or both. I like you too much to be mean, and don't know how to prescribe an entire program of reading and cultural awareness in response to a simple question.

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God damn. I hardly know what to say to THIS. Sorry? It fills me with dread that I have to enter into an internet argument with you. But I'm going to give it one more shot! Actually I wish I had worded my post better but really Blarg, sheesharolla. I've worked a [censored]-load of hours this week on little sleep and I'm in a grumpy mood mister! [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]


When I said "intergenerational war" i thought we were discussing war within families and kids fighting with their own parents not kids fighting the establishment and govt policies.

What I am interested in is how each generation interacts with their own parents and why the parents respond the way they do. Hasn't every generation bucked their parents values to an extent? I find it hard to believe that the 60s generation was more at war with their own parents (talking about in isolated families) than any other generation. Obviously I understand the 60s generation was at war with the government and "establishment" but when you focus on isolated families was their really a war going on?


All kids reject their parents values to an extent. I just find it fascinating and perplexing why 60s kids did so more than any other generation and I find it hard to believe that parents of the 60s gen wanted to send their kids off to war. I'm confused!!

Yeah some kids were very outspoken and participated in organized demonstrations, vocally anti-establishment. But were the majority of kids doing this or is history colored by the vocal, politically aware minority?

ok, no one wants to read all this so do not feel you have to reply. Let's just let it go as me being a complete nincompoop. n/m. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]