Updated 2 years ago
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/02/06/when-did-sixties-really-begin-heres-why-it-matters
The seeds for the Sixties were all around us in 1964; no one connected the dots. Flash forward to the past two years. Interesting parallel. Going by the generational cycle of radicalization, it seems to have happened in roughly 30 year cycles, with conservative periods in between (Europe Left 1840s, Civil War era, Antitrust Roosevelt 1900s, New Deal 1930s, 1960s, 1990s … the next gen
appears to have kickstarted early – Internet possibly speeding the cycle up? Seems to be demographics driving a critical mass, igniting the zeitgeist.
There will be a point soon, as there always is, where the excesses of the Left will create a reaction. [Ed. Note: This was written in 2014!!]
But we are far, far away from Nixon’s Silent Majority. How far is it going to go this time? Those seeds must be in place as well.
Brings to mind a quote by Hunter S. Thompson which cuts to the essence of the liberal dream and its ephemeral wave property:
“There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”
