Reply #38: Not to throw this into left field BUT

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While the 60's and 70's were an era of conflict and dismay it was also an era of hope and vast idealism.

Even as the war dragged on there was the feeling among the young that gradually we were becoming the force that would change the world.

We would be the generation that would turn the world away from war and turn everyone onto love and peace. Look at the clothes we wore. Those bright, tie-dyed colors weren't things you put on out of depression. They were the symbols of our hope for a brighter future, for ourselves and our children.

Now, where are the bright colors? Where is the hope? Where is the drive to create that better world?

We have forgotten how to do tie-dye. We have forgotten to hope. We have forgotten to keep fighting.

Or perhaps we have had those things we valued back then driven out of us by the relentlessness of the jack-booted right.

The time of the hippie is past. We let it pass. I hope the new young idealists will learn from our mistakes, take up the cause anew and win the fight we seem to have abandoned or lost.