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Warpy

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1. They'll never get a true picture of the 60s
Thu Jul 31, 2014, 12:34 PM
Jul 2014

because the footage of us was shot and interpreted by paunchy white guys from the suburbs. Part of it was our fault, we didn't trust them (with good reason) and usually put them on rather than trying to talk to them.

A couple of the old chat shows got close. I remember one (Susskind, I think), that interviewed some hippie-ish young women then had the interviews discussed first by the paunchy old white guys and then by Steinem and a couple of other feminist luminaries. The old white guys said the young women would all end up as streetwalkers. The feminists hooted at them and said they'd all end up married and in the suburbs. The old white guys were completely wrong, of course.

Unfortunately, they will rely on the seasoned reporting that missed the point so terribly.

Just remember, we filthy disgusting hippies were right. Our elders retaliated by electing Nixon.

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