Forty years later, 1968 is revisited as a time of historic change. Tom Brokaw's new book, BOOM!, offers pages of insight into the 60s, specifically 1968. As described in the Amazon book review, "Boom! One minute it was Ike and the man in the grey flannel suit, and the next minute it was time to “turn on, tune in, drop out.” While Americans were walking on the moon, Americans were dying in Vietnam. Nothing was beyond question, and there were far fewer answers than before."
Newsweek has a section called "The Boomer Files". There are various articles by various authors regarding the turmoil of the 60s, RFK and MLK assassinations, segregation, space travel, Vietnam, and the Beatles.
What will they say forty years from now? What is the historic change? A disturbance in the universe? Fear was allowed to overcome sanity? The erosion of the Constitution? Billions spent on a war based on a lie? iPods and Britney Spears as the main concern of American citizens?
I'm concerned historians will look back at us and ask, "How can a nation move from the greatest generation to the worst in such a short amount of time?"
Submitted by Andy Axel on Mon, 12/17/2007 - 09:10.
"How can a nation move from the greatest generation to the worst in such a short amount of time?"
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." -M. Twain
I'm concerned historians will look back at us and ask, "How can a nation move from the greatest generation to the worst in such a short amount of time?"
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"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them." -M. Twain
...no, wait, I know I was around for 1968 but I don't remember it.