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Art_from_Ark

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14. I don't know how much "free love" had to do with it

Reply to defacto7 (Reply #13)

Tue Nov 26, 2013, 08:47 AM

Nov 2013

The '70s were pretty hedonistic, all right, but that was the decade when I came of age, and I do remember it being a somewhat greedy and egotistical decade- not as bad as the '80s, but still somewhat selfish, especially after the Vietnam War ended.

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I thought it began in the '70s Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #11

It was referred to that until the 90s came along. defacto7 Nov 2013 #13

I don't know how much "free love" had to do with it Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #14

That is not how I experienced it. zeemike Nov 2013 #15

In the '70s, we also elected a bad man-- by a landslide-- Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #18

And how many of them actually voted? zeemike Nov 2013 #19

I imagine quite a few of them voted Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #20

Well to get back to the original point. zeemike Nov 2013 #21

Nixon started the drug war in June 1971 Art_from_Ark Nov 2013 #22

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I have thought these thoughts PowerToThePeople Nov 2013 #17