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[Scootaloo]

111. I have to disagree with you...

Very fucking few people fought against an unjust war. Very many people sat on their paisley-clad asses and opined that "war like sucks, man" and years later insisted that they were part of some great resistance.

There were real war resistors. Soldiers who refused to be deployed. Activists who broke into records. leaders who used their pulpit to lead against the trajectory - many of whom lost their lives over it. But the majority who claim this title of "fighting the war against the war" did nothing of the sort. They bought a bracelet, listened to some music, and hten voted for Ronald fucking Reagan "because, like, you can't trust the government, man!"

My problem isn't with the period of history but the entitled and self-righteous attitudes of the geezery old fucks, the lazy white bread middle-class suburban kids who demand handjobs for having metabolized glucose at some point between 1959 and 1970. These washed-out sellouts who think that because they had all the cream albums, they were part of some sort of "movement" and can lay claim to black empowerment, Stonewall, native rights, as if they were their own to take - and then sneer down their noses at the struggles of today as below their interest because "like, it was a purer time, man" - without ever acknowledging that it's their own dropping out, their own greed and entitlement, and their own fellows and political decisions that have made it so that battles from the nineteen-fucking-tens have to be re-fought.

I like the 60's, but most of the people who look back on the time and sigh as if they were a golden age can go get fucked with Barry Goldwater's withered zombie dick.

Tip on what doesn't work? Singing protest songs from the nineteen sixties. I like Joan Baez but jesus christ, singing at a problem doesn't cure it. Nor for that matter does drumming at it, waving a puppet at it, or any of the other self-masturbatory "protest" street theater tactics we inherited from this period. It's like Abbie Hoffman and Andy Kaufman got together one day to decide how to punk the shit out of everyone.

*INHALE*

...i guess my point is, people who go starry-eyed about the sixties make me chew my fucking teeth. Sorry for the rant but YEARGH