You are the stars

[Eric the Green]

(07-29-2016, 02:21 AM)taramarie Wrote: If anyone has a shred of insight and sensitivity one would know that Galen and other xers like him are not jealous of that particular part of boomer culture but rather they are disgusted by it. See it through the eyes of a little one seeing their parents like that. I never experienced that but you can try to put yourself in their shoes. I think they are disgusted and infuriated at what went on.

My impulse is to say baloney baloney baloney. The boomer counter-culture was glorious, and no children who grew up with it would have been disgusted, because that disgust arises from cultural programming, so those kids who grew up with it would not have been programmed to be disgusted. Those who are "disgusted" were brought up outside and beyond the hippies and liberals of the sixties, and their disgust was created by parents and media who programmed it into them. The counter-cultural experiences, the social liberation, and all the other changes did not work out well for everyone involved, and some children were neglected and families broken; I understand that. Cynical response on the part of young Xers, embracing a philosophy of callous denial and materialism, getting hooked on the Reagan counter-revolution they grew up with, and getting stuck in individualist/anarchist utopian blindness, as Galen does, is not the answer to finding the right path in a world in transition to a new way of life, but to become a part of the transition, and to work to evolve it and make it better for all.

Quote: I do not see them as jealous but rather making a stone out into something prophetic. More than what they see it as. It is a whole new pair of eyes seeing it from the outside. Like what i am doing now trying to see it from xers eyes. Something i can only interpret as i was not alive at the time nor have i gone through something similar. When i was born boomers were a totally different creature altogether. Middle aged, focused on raising a new generation the way they wanted. To emulate what they constantly said was dying in this society. They were family focused and i did not see that wild side that xers saw. So if i have interpreted xers wrong they can correct me. Only they can explain from their perspective how they interpreted the actions of their elders. But i certainly see them feeling the opposite of jealous. As a millie part of me was jealous seeing the freedom boomers had at woodstock. Due to the fact i was put to nose in the books and pushed to be an over achiever. To make my family proud. To be better than my elders who left school when they were in their teens. I never went out and did something like that. I was always at home studying. But i am not jealous of the drug taking. Ugh i value my life and my family would be so disappointed if i did something like that.

You are educated to be against psychedelics (which are not "drugs" anyway) by your parents, so that's why you feel that way. LSD is not for everyone, but there's no reason to put it down or buy into the parental and media propaganda against it. It opens many peoples eyes to reality, and instead of oppressing it, it should be channeled and administered to people in the proper set and setting. If you were properly educated about psychedelics, you would know what those terms mean. But you and most Xers and Millies have instead been brainwashed into knee-jerk opposition. The music is a good substitute for people who don't want to take psychedelics, and so are mystical and new age pursuits that have become available to our culture since the sixties and seventies. That is a great opportunity for all of us. But it takes a curious person who is interested in climbing out of the limited lives we are programmed to lead; a person who wants a deeper and more aware way of life than, as you say, just keeping your nose in our books and to the grindstone.

I see no excuse for Xer cynicism. Economic and spiritual opportunity has been all around them, and reacting and throwing over the boomer experience was what was harmful to them, and not anything else. Xers such as Galen are resentful and jealous. There is no excuse for boomers either to turn away from the ideals of their youth and embracing conservative ideas. That is betrayal, pure and simple.