tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post2407643023768142269..comments2024-03-27T23:28:20.274-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Remembering history, from pre-agriculture to The Sixtiesagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-29371702489209563872010-08-13T01:03:06.511-04:002010-08-13T01:03:06.511-04:00Mr. Carmichael may have preferred his women prone ...Mr. Carmichael may have preferred his women prone rather than supine - rear entry seems to be popular among African-Americans.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-55953827311764140542010-08-09T03:33:50.822-04:002010-08-09T03:33:50.822-04:00OT, but your mention of G. Cochran makes me wonder...OT, but your mention of G. Cochran makes me wonder what he's been up to lately--been rather quiet, hasn't he? Must be plotting the destruction of Rome.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-3060538316014503252010-08-08T10:40:21.755-04:002010-08-08T10:40:21.755-04:00I think because the Boomers have now joined the ec...I think because the Boomers have now joined the economic establishment they previously criticized, and have now jettisonned their anti-war stance in favour of a highly selective but pro-war stance (e.g. they were all gung-ho in Bosnia), the only things they can still identify with from the '60s are the identity politics of race, sex, and of course the contemporary but now-'60s-and-'70s-identified gay 'rights' movement. So I think they wilfully choose not to remember the stuff they'd rather forget, and reimagine the past along their preferred lines, in terms of identity politics.Will S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/02714519301979594160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-46228306459177944262010-08-07T13:33:56.284-04:002010-08-07T13:33:56.284-04:00I think race was a bigger deal back then than you ...I think race was a bigger deal back then than you portray it. The civil rights movement wasn't just about the state denying rights, attempts to portray Martin Luther King as wanting the same stuff as modern conservatives is wrong. They wanted to fight not just the government, but segregated lunch counters (many of Saul Alinsky's targets were also private). And the "counter-culture" was about culture rather than just politics. You've probably already read enough about Herbert Marcuse and the sixties. The Old Left was more about gut-bucket politics and freedom emerging after the dictatorship of the proletariat came about, but the baby boomers thought it was necessary for the younger generation personally reject the way the older folks thought.<br /><br />VJan Alpert's complaint about the treatment of women in the sixties is <a href="http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/mother/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I linked to some stories on oft-forgotten violence of those crazy hippie kids <a href="http://entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/chicago-1968/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.TGGPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11017651009634767649noreply@blogger.com