re: #340 ObserverArt

Thing is, most of them weren’t hippies.

What they do have in common? Being the generation that grew up being told that the US was the hero of WW2, that the nation was the “good” superpower, that the prosperity they benefited from was the product of hard work (not the devastation of most of the industrialized world). They’re also the generation that were instilled with a nationalism that associated church, family, and state as pillars of the USA (thanks, Eisenhower). They were also the generation in which post-war economics created both a physical and economic separation between blacks and whites, even as the “success” of the era was being attributed solely to individual achievement.

I’m not saying they’re all bastards, but I think it’s important to consider the culture the grew up in, and how it created the explanatory devices we now see them using when they look at current events.