Reply #48: we will be dead soon

[Two Americas]

Fear not.

"Hippies" is a stand-in, a convenient target. Read about the Poor People's March, the Memphis strike, read Dr. King's final speeches. Read about the DRUM Labor movement. The Civil Rights movement, and so much more - the true history of the 60's, what was really at stake, what the battles were really about. It was not about Woodstock.

"Establishment" is a stand-in too. While one side in those epic battles - those fighting for the people - is being smeared and blamed as "hippies," the murderous and tyrannical ones are recast as the benign and re-assuring "establishment."

The right wing propagandists have succeeded. They have convinced people that the last "we" generation we have seen is actually the "me" generation. They know that the most effective lies are those that are the precise opposite of the truth. The mirror image of the truth is more difficult to detect as a lie. It has a familiar shape.