Fun To Watch 1960s Teenage Baby Boomers Who DIDN'T Rebel

[Uncle Joe]

[marble falls]

1. Me until 1966 - when the health class anti-drug films made me want to smoke pot!

[multigraincracker]

3. That's the year I smoked my first joint.

Didn't feel a thing from it. Then a year later I tried some out in LA and WOW! Had some problems with grades and didn't find out why until many years later when a shrink told me I had ADD. He told me to go back to college and sit in the front row. I did and graduated Magna Cum Laude. Graduating, with honors from rehab too.

[marble falls]

6. My story, too. A couple of tokes kept me able to pay attention and hit the books without being ...

... distracted.

[ZZenith]

2. The comments section is such a study in the United State's current predicament.

The video seems to be a bit of a Rorschach test.

I suppose if I were ignorant of some salient facts about our history, I, too, might view those as “the good old days, when kids knew right from wrong, before the hippies screwed everything up.”

[multigraincracker]

4. They were right....

[ZZenith]

5. About most things.

Some slipped into plain old hedonism and lost their way, but the majority held it together.

IMHO.

[Goonch]

7. Old hippies

[ShazamIam]

8. Those are the ones whos parents voted for Nixon in 69 and who joined their parents for Reagan.nt

[Uncle Joe]

9. That's what I thought as well, most of them anyway, it looks like a microcosm

of the pre-Trump Republican Party with the strong adherence to total social conformity, which of course paved the way for Trump to dominate that party as they always placed the greatest emphasis on having a "strong leader" whether right or wrong.

I believe the absolute devotion to monolithic thinking was/is that party's long term Achilles heel as that dynamic transferred from their electorate to their Senators and Representatives.

Now if Mitch says yes or no, they obey with a bare minimum of actual, objective deliberation on whether it be good policy or not.

[ShazamIam]

10. The total capitulation is quite terrifying to me.