Did Charles Manson wreck the Boom Awakening?

[David Horn]

(11-26-2017, 12:36 AM)pbrower2a Wrote:

(11-25-2017, 04:33 PM)The Wonkette Wrote: There was a dark side to the Awakening even without Charles Manson.  There was Altamont, the Newark, DC, and Chicago Convention riots, Kent State,the Kennedy and MLK assassinations, Vietnam, drug overdoses, the Jonestown Massacre, lots of ugly things, and many of that preceded Charles Manson.

Awakening eras begin with great optimism -- even if the opening event is the assassination of JFK. The urban riots were undeniably ominous. The disorder at the Democratic National Convention in 1968 certainly aided in the rise of Richard M. Nixon.  The Vietnam Waer was of course a mess, and one result of that military mess (leadership having no idea of how to present a war as a noble cause) was the Kent State massacre. Drugs, drugs, and more drugs? That was part of Manson.

"Peace, love, and dope" was far better as a dream than "murder, hate, and dope", as practiced in the Manson 'family'.

So was the mindless hedonism that became the norm in the middle-to-late 1970s.

The Awakening had another feature too: innocence and zealotry.  When you put those two together, anyone not part of "the movement" will have the bejesus scared out of them.  That's pretty much what happened, and why the backlash was so much stronger than the movement it opposed.  The Silent Majority triggered the rise of the Evangelical movement and we're still working our way through that today.  Emotion trumps logic every time, and fear is the greatest emotional motivator.  It's one of the reasons I fear that today's SJWs are simply repeating that mistake yet again.  Let the White Nationalists make that mistake this time, and STFU about injustice ... just for a while.