Baby Boomers Shed Tears When They Remember The 1960s
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- čas přidán 28. 10. 2017
- To support my efforts to create more clips please donate to me at www.patreon.com/allinaday. WATCH THE ENTIRE CLIP. MANY GREAT STORIES. This is a portion from the 6th episode of my PBS television series on the 1960s, Making Sense Of The Sixties. Fascinating to talk to folks who lived it and are now reflecting on it and what has happened since. Whatever you think about the 60s, the generation who experienced that time sees it like the World War II generation sees the war. Extremely powerful in their lives.
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I'm 28. I've been studying the 50s, 60s, and 70s since being a teenager. I absolutely love looking at old pictures from that time period. It brings me great inspiration for both my art and daily life.
Those old pictures are my humpin' life , damnit! But yeah, I get ya 👍✌️🌈🇺🇲
My great uncle survived Vietnam (dodged the draft for a couple of years but was finally tracked down) but passed away a few years ago due to exposure to Agent Orange. He promised himself if he made it out of Vietnam, he’d do whatever he wanted with this rest of his life, and so he did. He was the first Black American to go to South Africa during apartheid and befriended the Mandela family during a time where they were seen as terrorists. My uncle is someone I really look up to.
He sounds amazing. Maybe you can write more about him....if not to publish, then for family.
@@MrJeeves4me thank you - I recorded some of those conversations I had with him, so maybe it’s time I transcribe them.
@@Hunter-vp3he
Do so....that would be a great gift for your family members and for future historic reference.....Kind regards to you.
@@Hunter-vp3he 💯💯Amazing. One of my most prized possessions is a recording of my Oma (grandmother in German, she was my great-Gma) who was Romani - as many people call “Gypsies”- & her family came over in 1938 to escape the worsening situation in Germany & Italy. Her accent is so thick, but I’m so grateful to be able to hear her voice. I have an afghan that she knitted for me when my mom was expecting; she didn’t get to meet me but she finished it. 💗 Please, even if you don’t transcribe the recordings, make some copies for your family? A truly priceless gift. Be blessed.
😥 my uncle fought in Vietnam was exposed to agent Orange really brutal s*** my heart goes out to you man
I was born in 1960, I lost my 2 brothers in the Vietnam war. I have a different outlook on the 60's.
I feel sad for you. That is a big loss. I couldn't imagine my little brother losing me at a young age.
@Alan Horning there is, up to a point. It's called get your own planet. For it will probably never work here. Sad as it is. Had two brothers in nam... their home.
Mr.Ayers. veteran 74 to 77.
@Alan Horning you're a good man, with a good heart. And I am very proud of you. And I am very proud of all veterans who honorably served their country and each other. If you are really haven't some issues, there are others, you know, the VA crisis line can help you.... please call and go if you need to....ok and it does sound like you need some help brother. Well, sorry about the stupid joke, sometimes they don't go off too well. But I got a f****** attitude also mister. So remember that when you're talkin to me dumbass. You know in life you either be the hammer or the nail. Sounds like you're the f****** nail grow up. And get some help boy.
@Alan Horning that's Mister Ayers I told you that from the beginning. And I am telling somebody that cares, wake up!! I'm over 60 myself. I can identify. Either way I will leave you alone. Good luck.
William English you must think your edgy huh
These are documentaries inside a documentary, hearing 90s opinions about the 60s. Super interesting.
Thank you Juliana. The wonderful thing about this style is that it is evergreen. I believe that every generation in the future curious to know what happened back then and how it was perceived 30 years later will probably enjoy seeing these comments and the commentary.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
David Hoffman They definitely will, I'll even rewatch myself later in life to get a new perspective. Thanks you very much for sharing this work with all of us
Julia - was thinking that exact thought when I stumbled onto your post. It's election day, November 7, 2018. I just watched Ed Stein, 10 years before his employer's collapse, reflecting how comfortable he is with 2 cars and a nice house, and how difficult it is in 1989 to write about "making it" and other deep questions that once affected him so "viscerally." I wonder if 2009 brought it all back.
Thats exactly what I thought! I find these videos to be quite meta
Everything about this documentary says '80s to me, from the clothes to the hair, to the ages of those interviewed. If it's the 90's when this was filmed, why is a picture of John Kerry presented, but not in reference to the hypothesis that a Vietnam War veteran who sympathized with the anti-war movement might become president? And why is Dan Quale pictured but not Al Gore if it was made in the 90's? It was very interesting. I've always thought it was comically ironic that America would provide higher education to its citisens and yet punish them for wanting answers to what they felt didn't make sense in their world. What did they (the government, authorities) think was going to happen when they put a bunch of people into an institution like college, so those people could avoid the draft, and learn how to think for themselves? Of course they are going to have questions.
What a different world it was.
I remember my Dad taking the toaster to the shed and pulled it apart to repair it.
He polished it up after fixing it and we continued to use it. The TV went to the repair shop if it needed fixing.
Today ...... everything is thrown away.
I look at the massive pile of flat screen TV'S at the dump, and I wonder what sort of world be have become.
That is so true. I remember the TV repairman coming over to fix the TV
I get it totally
Most mechanisms today are built on purpose to be unrepairable by anyone other than an “approved” mechanic by the company. It makes them more money that way.
@@abc-jq4hi Maybe for you.
I was born in 1959 and knew someone who made a living owning a tv repair shop. My family got our first color tv in either 69 or 1970, can’t remember which year but I do remember in 69 we watched the moon landing in black and white. So, we must have got our colored tv in 1970!
A sad fact is that young men were drafted and died horrible deaths in Vietnam and the ones who came back scarred and in pain, mentally and physically were ridiculed by their own generation for fighting in a war in which they had no choice but to be involved and fight in. These young men, some as young as 17 were drafted and died for no reason. Very sad and the veterans alive today who survived, still have to in a sense fend for themselves and their own generation forgets them even today.
The war against and for poverty has more casualties annually that any other war in history, and we still have neoliberal economic design principals to attribute to that. Nam is a symptom of that movement, and it continues today, so, you could say that while operations have migrated, and populations have changed, the war ragges on.
One of the worst fates a soldier could meet besides getting killed/injured/PTSD was becoming one of the people who came back from Vietnam and realized that the US represented the bad guys and they were fascist soldiers in an unjust anti-communist war. The CIA even invented a new propaganda word for them: "Brainwashed". The term "brainwashing" was actually a positive word used by the Chinese and Vietnamese communists that was used to refer to giving prisoners of war education instead of punishment. To make the indoctrinated American soldiers realize that what they were doing is wrong.
A lot of smart American soldiers returned to their countries supporting communism and Vietnam. But instead of being celebrated as heroes with a greater understanding of the world who gave up on their evil capitalist ideology and bravely started opposing capitalism and the US government dragging them and other innocents into war... they were made into victims of "brainwashing" who would never again be taken seriously. Instead of listening to them and realizing that socialism isn't evil, people looked at them with pity and a testament to the evil of communist torture. Instead of helping them lead a socialist revolution in the US and putting them into political offices, nobody took them seriously and treated them like mental patients.
The CIA labeled them "brainwashed", implying that they are just wrong and were tortured into delusions. In reality, they were simply educated about socialism and started supporting it and opposing capitalism. Because that's what education does. There is no such thing as "brainwashing", they were simply de-programmed by receiving education that proved the capitalist propaganda they were led to believe wrong. These people suffered their whole life being seen as victims of communist evil turning them crazy instead of being recognized as the good people that they are. Instead of recognizing that learning about communism turns people communist, the CIA has spread the propaganda that learning about socialism is actually something bad. This propaganda continues to this day and is incredibly fucked up.
It's all public record. The US government and the CIA officially admitted to non of their claims about China/Vietnam being true and inventing the propaganda term to prevent people from taking socialist soldiers seriously:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing#China_and_the_Korean_War
In 1956, after reexamining the concept of brainwashing following the Korean War, the U.S. Army published a report entitled Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of War, which called brainwashing a "popular misconception". The report concludes that "exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."
In short: EVERYTHING AMERICANS KNOW ABOUT SOCIALISM IS A LIE MANUFACTURED BY THE US GOVERNMENT. The soldiers who were captured by the Chinese and Vietnamese learned to love and support socialism and the Vietnamese and Chinese people and instead of supporting them, the American government and people denounced them and treated them like mental patients. This injustice is one of the greatest political tragedies in modern history.
@ball stealthy It's awful what happened for you, but remember that your dad didn't have a chance.
@@lynth When ppl learn, really learn, about socialism, they would clearly see it's been socialism for the rich, and privileged class, and corporations, all along. This, been their best-kept secret and why they guard it so jealously with all their lies. After all, for them, it's more about keeping ALL the pie for themselves and sharing little to nothing, of that pie, with us.
WOW, great point... I never even thought about that - they were drafted - *FORCED to go to Vietnam* ... That is very sad. Now, the world is an absolute sheol - as the so called people over there would call it.
~Even as a kid, i could feel how special & different the 60s were, but i didnt realize during the 70s how very wonderful that era was, too, until recently~I can barely listen to the music from back then without crying & longing for those days again, knowing those times are gone forever & the future looks bleak~
Kathy, I understand all too well what you mean.
I was born in 71, and I’ve always known it too. I miss how simple things were. The music always breaks me down. I’ve lived in the past all my life, every single day. I miss my mama so badly sometimes I can’t even breathe. She always had music on. She was a hippie, born in ‘49. 🦋🌻
@@zoiefinnian3540 ~Yes, i miss my Dad a lot, too~I still cry & talk to him regularly~Its been 37 years~
@@kathyingram3061 You remind me of my dad, who will turn 70 this year.
His stories of the 1960s and 1970s I just couldn't imagine would be possible to do today. The world is so sensitive and corporate that my dad would be outright canceled and thrown in jail if he were to do the stuff that was akin to what Hippies were doing back then.
Isn't it a shame that the this documentary is so one-sided and showing how some hippies ended up. It totally ignores the fact that many of them went on to be very successful and happy musicians!!!! I think this documentary makes it out to be like most hippies resent that lifestyle, ignoring the ones that loved it and don't regret living it. I was born in 1962 but wish I was born earlier because I would have loved to be a part of that lifestyle!!!
No matter what decade, as long as there are humans in it, there are many mistakes made and lessons (not?) learned.
My dad was a child in the 60s and they abused him in school for using his left hand and forced him to write with his right hand. The level of forced conformity was too high.
Well forced conformity came back with the face diapers (m*sks)
@@gaylemc2692
You sound like you've been duped thin paper masks don't block anything..
On a microscopic level...!!
I was a child in the 1960s. 1962 was the year I started first grade and my mother told the teacher that I will write with my left hand. Also she had to show the teacher my birth certificate that my name was spelled correctly.
@ Meggsie
Exactly the same thing happened to me! As a result I can write with either hand, just sloppy in both. 😉
@@ronndapagan spelled correctly? So if you were stefany instead of Stephanie what were they gonna do? Fukcing kill you or somethng??
I lived through the sixties. Did a lot. I find it best explained in a few short words that are the beggining of A Tail Of Two of Cities. "It was the best of times, It was the worst of times."
That does sum it up.
@Jess Webb
RE: ". . . that are the beggining of A Tail Of Two of Cities."
Tale not Tail
My Feelings e xactely
I feel as though that could be said for most generations when your young best of times when your older you see the worst of the times
Baby boomers are the most hated there's channels strictly built on how boomers are to blame for the condition of the world today it's confusing to me
I was a teenager in the 60s. My life and my brother was a living horror. My dad was abusive. My mother was a drunk. Me and my brother went hungry. And suffered so much. He passed away at only 62 ten days before his birthday when we would have been the same age for a month. I miss him.
I hope you have a good life now and have healed from the past🍃
I am so sorry
Im sending positive thoughts & prayers for you now.
My condolences
There are always families and children who were not advantaged in the ways these types of themes and narratives say... and it's not fair. In reality loads of people had parents with PTSD or other issues from various wars through the 20th century, depression era, etc. Trauma is handed down by way of modelling but also simply in being unable to provide. I hope you are happy and have been able to heal and find joy in your life. Xx
Your comment was tough to read, unfortunately, it was the same in my Family, the only difference is they didn't drink.
Be strong and remember your not alone.
Love Australia
My parents graduated in ‘68 & ‘69. My parents both protested the Vietnam war. My Dad is 70 now he still remembers his draft number to this day. He was one of the lucky ones. He didn’t have to go fight that war. My parents were both hippies. They got to see some of the best bands and musicians that ever have lived in my opinion. They also both eventually grew up became parents and now they are grandparents. They are still interesting, fun people and have great taste in music.
My parents were boomers who essentially skipped the 60s culture discussed here. I was born in 68, my brother 66. It's easy to lose sight of how a lot of people weren't smoking weed, joining communes, wearing tie-dye, and whatever else. Part of it clicked; they supported equal rights changes.
I was born 1. 1. 1968 I do recall there were "colorful" times to say the least where do you start!?
John B right but some hippies were true intellectual activists in a positive sense ☺️
The full-on hippie culture tended to be middle class, college age or college educated kids rather than working class. My family was closer to working class, but our beliefs were changed by our social climate, just like the kids who turned on and dropped out. We just went to work during the day and talked philosophy and revolution in the evening and on weekends....
My parents were/are really into jazz, and hated the whole beatnik/hippie thing. But ultimately were affected by the 60s, by giving up on their marriage too easily and looking out for themselves instead of trying to remain a family. So I guess I was indirectly affected by the carefree, free love bullshit, which eventually made me despise hippies, despite being an early 90s alterna hippie.
Same here.
Having lived through it, these comments speak much louder about the person commenting than the video itself. And the video depicts only these people's points of view...there were millions of varying points of view in the 60s. An era cannot be generalized or labeled, it was Life.
It was crap.
Nailed it. The boomer generation is just me, me, me.
"You can live on 25 dollars a week" -- LOL! Even after adjusting for inflation, you can't do that any more. The cost of being poor is a lot higher today!
Rampant inflation and "you ain't seen nothin' yet". Here's how I see it so clearly. In the 1960s, there was a gas price war. Gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. In the early 1970s, we bought full size candy bars for a nickel at a big box bulk store and sold them for a dime to raise money for school events. What do those cost now? $2.19? $2.49? More? And they're smaller now. Food shortages and far worse inflation are imminent. So consider carefully what you need and want and get what you can while you still can.
Bwahahah, 25 a day perhaps, while homeless...
I live on $3 a day and take a minimalist approach. I’ve got rheumatoid arthritis so I do a carnivore/keto diet. I don’t eat breakfast and I eat in a four hour window. It can be done you just have to set your mind to it.
It has help with information and I arthritis pain. I’m down to 189 pounds and starting to get some muscle tone back. A nuts, fatty meats, organic liver, eggs, avocados. It can be done!!!
@@geoffreyyoste45 $3 a day until the water bills, electric bill, rent, school taxes come.
@@carolynking1625 i know it’s a lot
To have on your shoulders. Are used to work at 800 hour weeks to get ahead so I have a job where I tried time for money and it sucked. I did it for three years it was either go from there.
Trust me I’ve thought about moving to a different country and opening up a sandwich shop or I could live and eat and then hang out on my days off but we’re happy now
Best part about the 1960's was the music. Seriously, some of the best jams of all time.
Principal Vernon imagine is the worst song of all time
trigglyturk You mean to tell me the only song that came out during the 60s was a song from 1971? Amazing.
@C Hoc Perhaps not. A couple more Millennials fell off a cliff today while taking selfies. lol
Pinkish Floyd I love me some Jimi here and there
@@tellthetruthna8523 bwahahahaha
I am a baby boomer and I was never outside the system because I had traditional jobs in offices. I loved the music and the clothes in the 1960's but I was not a hippie or a drug taker and none of my friends were either.
I lived through the 60's too & I agree with you. And we also loved driving the beautiful, distinctive muscle cars in the 60's!
These documentary are addicting 😍
jj a are you referring to the hippie documentaries?
jj a Check out Ken Burns
Hes a legendary historical Docu film maker
Covers do many eras and pivotal times
Also David Halburstien or burg Sorry Ive read him and own his box set of videos THE 50'S.and cant remember his name at the moment
Hes WELL KNOWN for writing about baseball
" The Boys Of Summer"
Hes so prolific he just captures EVERYTHING you can experience the past through him
Hes written alot..unfortunately he was killed in a car accident a while back.
Ive read his big book The 50s countless times Chapters devoted to different things that evolved in America and in the end as the 60s arrived how everything was about to change
I selfishly mourn his early death as I wanted more I highly recommend these two mens work to you. Talk about addicted! They both touch the heart of all matters though the human experience
No era was or is perfect.
Ok but the 60’s were shit.
Steve Keys . The sixties was pure, self absorbed bullshit.
But some eras are more perfect than others.
@Jim Lahey every generation says the same
@Chon Connor AIDs and Drugs ruled the 80's
I remember watching this documentary when it re-aired on TV around 1998 or 1999 or so, and it made a *MASSIVE* impression on me. It's basically what led me to start taking an interest in politics-especially *this exact segment* of it. I've been looking for it for years! Bravo and thank you, David Hoffman!!! 👏👏👏
Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that CZcams is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
David Hoffman filmmaker
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker My pleasure! FWIW, I'm actually currently a former political science major/law school graduate/radio journalist who'd like to get into making documentaries eventually someday. (I've taken a stab at short-form political and social commentary videos on my own CZcams channel here: czcams.com/users/WestIndianAKvideos.)
I'm also curious about whether you ever did any work looking at the gay rights movement in the '70s and '80s (it occurred to me that it would have been nice to see what members of what we now call the LGBT community who were old enough to remember Stonewall would have contributed to "Making Sense of the Sixties"), or maybe about the AIDS epidemic and the activist response to it (e.g. ACT-UP) around the time MSS came out?
@@WestIndianAK” Currently a former…” what lol
I live below the poverty level so I don't have to pay taxes. I find war repulsive.
This is extremely interesting work!
You almosy certainly pay some form of tax like sales tax, gas tax, car registration, etc., probably at a higher percentage of your income than someone making 80k a year.
I remember a story about my father. His family didn't know where he went and when they found him he was eating dog food in a tent while he was avoiding the Vietnam draft. I really believe he knew he wouldn't have hadn't made it out alive and, obviously, I wouldn't be alive today had he died. I have a very high regard for those that lost their lives so that people, like me, could have one.
I respect the commitment
My family is in that 15%. I'm the bread-winner and my wife is a home-maker. It works well for us. I feel blessed. Married now 35 years.
I was born in 1981, its amazing how Vietnam and most events of the sixties are never even a part of our life today. I can see all the impact, but no one in my generation is even aware of any of it. I try my best to educate myself but it is hard to find good material like this. It has taken years of studying to grasp what happened and the impact it has on our daily lives.
Life is suffering regardless of who you are. No matter your solution, you just end up trading one issue for another
Yup. That's the MAIN reason I decided to never have kids. Why force another soul to come into such a backward society?
If you hate Life, and if you view humanity so darkly, it's better that you not try to be a parent who would pass on that negativity to an innocent little joyful child. Good choice.
@@goodbyecommunists1335 I only view lazy, non-working ultrawealthy real estate speculators darkly...Everyone else is their slave. Collectively the speculators get *rewarded* for keeping millions of homes deliberately vacant (to create artificial housing shortages all over the world with the purpose of rapidly driving flipping prices/profits higher and higher). Everyone else gets *punished* for serving those lazy, self-indulgent real estate speculators with a tax on labor. Being taxed for our labor is "punishment for being punished". So which one are you raising yours to become...future slaves or future plantation lords?
Ecclesiastical.
@@goodbyecommunists1335 we should be aborting like crazy all over the world. Actually, we should be mandating the production and distribution of birth control, condoms and other contraceptives in every high school and college WITHOUT parental consent needed. If that doesn't happen, then I agree with Bill Gates. We should be sterilizing massive amounts of the population. Most people should not have kids. Especially pro-lifers or Christian Fundamentalists. Those people should be exterminated from the Earth. They are an insult to God and to humanity. Arrogant Ideas like Manifest Destiny should be punishable by hellfire.
It was a small minority of people that actually lived the “hippie” lifestyle of communes, free love, etc, etc,. When I got married in 1972 and babies came along so did reality. Even though we continued doing drugs that too ended as you would expect, trouble and disaster. The “Head” mindset was hard to shake. When society changed you had to adjust.
It sounds like you were a genuine Hippie. A lot of the people of the 60's had a broad definition of what a Hippie was. If you had long hair and wore certain clothes they defined you as a Hippie. Charles Manson was considered a Hippie at one time. Charlie hated Hippies and was an admirer of Adolph Hitler.
Thanks for the reminder, Mr. Mooney. I am so sick to death of the media glorifying a very small minority and promoting them as the stereotype of the boomers in the ‘60’s. It was hardly all sex, drugs and rock-n-roll (although we did have the best music.) We watched our most promising leaders assassinated. We lost so much of the lifeblood of this country and destroyed the populations of other countries for a lie-Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. And once again, the generations behind us managed to swallow whole the alleged “Weapons of Mass Destruction” myth and allowed those wars to drag on for 20 years with cost plus no bid contracts given to companies created by top government officials.
Imagine if we had invested those billions of dollars HERE what we could have accomplished. The “Axis Of Evil” for the generations behind the boomers are Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. Our all volunteer military are actually economic conscripts because there are no jobs for those graduating high school particularly in rural areas. We manufacture nothing. We are a huge debtor nation now.
I am glad I’m going rather than coming.
Ladies and gentlemen, please be careful when shoving labels on people like this. You and I did not choose when or where we were born.
And the industry that created most labels like baby boomer, gen X, millennials, and all the others ..... advertising and marketing, and a great big life insurance industry.
Human life is a continuum.
It’s not accurate to portray anyone as being just like everyone else in a group, due to when or where they were born. Or any other way, like skin color.
Just saying, these labels can harm people. And there is Zero scientific basis for applying human created labels to anyone, based upon when they were born.
Finally, I gotta tell you, in my experiences ...... life is often difficult and often painful. Prepare yourselves because that will not change.
The main thing is to adapt. To change
+Sluggo Pico De Gallo
@kettlebelle cry about it Lol
@Charlie D How can you tell when someone is a conservative bigot?
They'll tell you!
@Sincerely, Enter Name It's a shame that we have all those labels, yet I know for a fact you couldn't tell me the definition of socialism without looking it up first. People are starting to support leftist systems, die mad about it fascist.
As someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s, all I heard was how great the outcome of the 60s was. Boomers who lived through it waxed nostalgic about it all the time, in the same self important way they do now. Of course, my generation bought it, I mean, we resurrected Woodstock, because it was cool or something.
I don’t have the same respect for the hippies and their ideals as I did when the boomers were spoon feeding me how great it was as I was growing up.
The destruction of family life and the sexual revolution especially haven’t been net positives on our society.
Blue Cookie Troll - amen
Truth, the boomers were terrible for society. They aborted so many babies that gen x barely exists.
As the 5th child of 6 to four different mothers I agree.
Excellent and very important points. 100%. But...Woodstock was cool😎
Agree 100% Blue Cookie.
I'm devastated by the bag of tricks we were sold.
I cant believe I was so stupid to fall for it.
Destruction of family, church and country.
I'm struggling with feeling robbed by being sold a bag of goods that turned out to be a useless, worthless, meaningless MESS!
I was born in 1955 I'm living in a different country now
the mid-'60s to early '70s were glorious in expanding consciousness, but there was that horrid vietnam war.
I was born in 1950...in 1966 I was 16. My only brother was a helicopter pilot in Vietnam...so much happened in the '60's...never a dull moment. My first office job in 1969, met a crazy guy and got married. Turns out he was a wife beater..left him when I was 3 months pregnant. I could have had an abortion but I wanted the child very much..I grew up fast with the most wonderful music EVER! I would go back to this time in a heartbeat...😍
For all the trapping of idealism, the baby boomers showed their true colors in the 80's. I am Gen-X and now middle-aged, so naturally I am more pragmatic than I was 20 years ago. This has not stopped me, though, from striving for a balance between responsibility and principle. I confess I made all the same selfish, indulgent mistakes in my youth. But in the wake of this, I have managed to build a career that provides me with an adequate standard of living while also trying to affect positive change in my community.
Soulvigilante. I really agree. I kept wondering what happened.
It's silly to generalize about entire generations as if everyone is the same.
Word!
Many boomers made great sacrifices to better the world. They became teachers and social workers, community organizers and doctors for the poor. Please don't group an entire generation as sell outs. Those who were idealistic as kids, often remain idealists as adults, and try to practice their beliefs, not sell out
I am a baby boomer. Younger people seem to classify boomers as all being Hippies or Radicals. Most young people of the 60's were not in either of those groups. I recall most of the people I knew back them were much more conventional then they are portrayed.
Brilliant work, David Hoffman! Thank you!
Thank you so much.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
I was born in 63 I'm looking for any David Hoffman documentaries on being a teen in the 70s
I wish I would have found these brilliant documentary sooner especially during the pandemic.
Thank you for sharing these
Incredibly powerful and important information....many of these same issues are unfortunately alive & well in 2019.
I think they always will be really.
This is how I feel abut the 50's. All generations favor "their time".
@Redeemed I find this to be true....though I was born in 81, I had a small taste of growing up in a time where kids could play till dark, and there was still an innocence to the world....but it was over before I was conscious of it...
What I wouldn't give to be a white male in 1955 or 65 or 75...what a time
Yes, because it keeps getting worse and worse
@Deleting this account Speak for yourself! My admiration for past music and fashions doesn't negate my love for this decade. Crime rates are at an all-time low, people are more politically conscious than they have been in a long time, the internet is a godsend, apps like snapchat and tiktok are good fun, Obama was a pretty decent president, Trump marked the end of the Clinton/Bush dynastic successions, EDM festivals fostered a feeing of communal love among a sizeable portion of Millenials (me included), there's a lot of excitement in the air regarding the future tech, Elon Musk has practically become an American hero and will soon lead us to Mars, gay marriage was legalized, civil rights have taken center stage again, lyft and airbnb have brought people together in intimate spaces to have human conversations with one another, and the amount of amazing music produced in the last 10 years certainly rivals if not surpasses the output of previous eras. I love the 2010s and wouldn't trade my experiences in this decade for the world.
@@Sean-dl8ym You must have a horrible taste in music if you think that the music of the past 10 years rivals or is better than any past decade. If anything music is at its worst, lyrics have been dumbed down and theres no particularly memorable artist for the 2010s. The 50s had Elvis Presley , 60s had The Beatles,Jimi Hendrix 70s had Eagles, led zeppelin pink floyd 80s Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen, 90s Kurt Cobain etc..You get the point. Studies have even shown that music has gotten worse in the past 10 or so years with the lyrics getting "dumbed down " more and more every year. As an 80s baby I'm considered a millennial and it sounds more like your a post millennial but either way I have never heard up until recently so many younger people hating their gen as much as I hear nowadays. We have become more divided than anything politically, racially and thanks to modern feminism and MGTOW even men and women can't get along. Even as a bisexual woman I can say that the LGBT community has become ridiculous with normalizing transgenderism in children and creating laws in certain places that make it illegal to misgender a person. Lets not forget that now theres allegedly 80 something (made up) different genders now and we live in an overly politically correct era where people are constantly finding things to be offended about people ignore facts and believe in feelings and even resorting to censorship if someone disagrees. With the exception of some advances in medicine its otherwise become a horrible decade. It started off ok but has declined drastically. You're likely way too young or just ignorant if you can't see that.
@@winterlynn9012 I'm neither ignorant nor too young, and I stand by everything I said. First off, I'm not talking about pop music when I say that music produced in this era rivals the output of previous generations. To be sure, I do love me some Katy Perry & Taylor Swift, but I obviously recognize the lack of sophistication in their artistry. There is, however, tons of innovative music lying just below the mainstream. Second off, not that many men are MGTOW and I actually think we might be witnessing the very beginning of a men's movement (which is long overdue). In the same vein, we're more politically divided because we all have passionate ideas about the future direction of the country. That's a good thing! I'm happy to see people start to take the condition of African Americans seriously again instead of just assuming we had the civil rights movement already so everything is fixed. What's actually happening, as far as I can see, is that issues which had been glossed over and ignored are now entering public discourse. That may be a painful process but is nevertheless a necessary one. The queer movement too, although excessive, is ultimately a force for good. The 70+ genders are not and will never be accepted as valid, but a lot of the less extreme stuff is actually great, and I've witnessed an immense wave of acceptance toward queer people from 2009 to now in my own circle. Overall, there are many things to celebrate about these past ten years. Sounds like you older Millenials missed out.
I am 39, Still have not figured out what to do with my life.
love the gift of life....be grateful for what you have....share that growing feeling with others in loving ways including humor....You will receive love in return and life takes on it's highest meaning in the most surprising and fantastic ways..
Something very good about your comment it sounds like you’re still looking. Don’t give up. I kept looking and I found it. It is him yes Jesus Christ. The best way to find him are you figure out what to do with your life… Simply surrender to his Lordship. Back to the church building facility but Jesus himself. Please read John chapter 3 and focus on Jesus conversation with Nicodemus you’ll find out from there what to do with your life.
Damn you old as shit lol
Ditto. 63. I might stop searching now 😆
I grew up in the 60s as an army brat during the Vietnam war. I lived in Germany and saw the iron curtain and was thrilled to get back to the states just in time for the hippie movement. I loved it but I knew it wouldnt last and I was conservative at heart. Also hsd to live without my dad when he was in Korea and had to drop him off at McCord AFB to possibly go to Cuba during the missile crisis. I always looked back at the 60s as the grestest of times..but I just got used to the intensity that I missed later. I thought it was "normal". Now I realize it was extremely stressful. All I miss now is the music and the cars and it disgusts me how spoiled an unappreciative that 30% of my generation was. By the time I graduated in 1970, I was completely burned out and never took a drug. It was just too much to happen in one decade, especially when you are growing up.
McChord holds some space in my heart too
A couple of months ago, while watching the documentary "The Day Kennedy Died" my eyes started to well up and I cried softly. My 17 year old boy wandered past and somewhat scared because he'd never, ever, seen me cry asked me what's the matter. I told him that I was just remembering where I was (ie. grade school,) and how I felt when we heard about JFK being assassinated
He's very bright and has always been interested in the '60s like no other decade that I've lived through and has watched all the retrospectives and asked me about everything that happened back then. However, he had no ability to truly understand what it was like and empathize since he hadn't lived through the decade. None of my family were democrats nor particularly liked Kennedy's policies but his assassination was just so shocking and sad. I've watched 18 months old up to 85 year olds pass away so I'm pretty hardened due to working in the healthcare field.but these were feelings from a different time snd for a young, charismatic President. You just had to live through it to appreciate it. It truly was the best of times and the worst of times.
I was 5th grade. It was announced over the loud speakers. Even teachers hearing it for first time. Everyone was grief-stricken. People began wandering listlessly around the room and in halls crying openly or privately. The entire country was like this for days.
@@TrishCanyon8 I, was in the 10th grade.
I remember watching JFK on our tiny tv give a speech on something. My parents were out of the room. I was just watching him, trying to understand (but not having the vocabulary). But, I do remember thinking, at age 4-5, something along the lines of, “OK, I understand there are nations and they have leaders and this is our nations’ leader.... jeez ... ..this guy is really GOOD!”
He had nonverbal communications skills that I could comprehend at age 4.
The speaker crackled on in the sixth grade school room, mid newscast from Dallas Texas, "The President has been shot." then later news, " The President has died." Teachers and nuns were openly weeping. Most of the adults seemed to be in a state of shock.
It was a Friday, we were let out early to walk home. It was a dismal grey foggy and freezing November day
My mother was waiting at home having made sure all five of us were home. She had heard the news from the radio while in the kitchen.
She called my father at work, his boss was going to yell at him but he said no, we had better turn on the radio, the president has been shot.
It was a Friday. It was a surreal weekend.
We wondered who. We wondered if the Russians would attack.
That was the end of the American Republic though I did not know it at that time.
3rd grader that day. America changed forever on November 22, 1963.
Every generation is very different, and every generation is exactly the same.
Also, it is always rewarding to hear someone who is ruled by their own sense of decency rather than the mores and rules of society
Seems as enlightening today as it had to have been when filmed. Thank you for these gems!
38:43 "Today nobody would try to ban a communistic speaker at a college campus"
2019: "Hold my beer, I think we can go you one better. . . "
You should definitely interview that guy now. In fact you should re-interview them all again; because most of the things they were patting themselves on the back for are pretty much all undone, or came to nothing.
I'm having lots of fun reading people's posts the insightful things that are being said that are helping put together this composite that I just didn't have before or not that I didn't I just didn't think about it much because of the cares of this life more than just all that
Free speech is being stifled in very big way on our college campuses - I remember when University meant the free exchange of ideas so that young people might better know their own mind...not anymore. Whatever happened to "Stick & Stones can break my bones but words can never harm me"?
Nothing is ever for nothing. The universe is more intelligent than that.
Safe Space.....
They ban plenty of people, just not Commies.
The hippies were rejecing materialism. I grew up in a poor family. I wish I had parents and a family that had provided the benefits of materialism. I had to go to work in the mid 1960's right out of high school. I liked the music of the time and the booming economy. I believethe hippies had some good ideas. The hippies did not survive because they were living too far from reality.
FRANKIESIXTOES Man I was a sophomore and breakin my ass
for 1.25 an hour. Materialism ?
What fuckin materialism.
Sometimes man, I think maybe you gotta be rich to have the
privilege of being an idiot.
I hear ya. Loud & clear.
@@greyedgerton2890 : exactly. Remember when teens and young 20-something's would window shop at shopping malls? It was more about a social outing.
The opposite..the war they stopped was very real..& unnecessary
@@paulfitton8276 The hippies did not stop the Vietnam War. There were people from many segments of society who opposed and were instrumental in stopping the War. The hippies were. in large part. not political.
They were still the main body of anti war,love & peace movement!
Watching this I feel like we haven't learned anything. We're stagnant :(
agree
I agree that we are way worse off. I am a university graduate, graduating with honors. The universities are communist propaganda mills. The Orwellian state is taking over!
@@bgood6930 I think you're being dramatic. You're using "communist" interchangeably with "liberal" and as a silly buzzword, detached from its definition. Private universities are designed to teach things the state universities won't...at a profit, of course. That capitalism. Communism is a state of absolute equality, driven by Marxism, not a liberal state. A liberal state is one of equal opportunity for basic necessities, not equality of outcome. A community is a classless state of equal benefits and equal outcomes of effort.
Nostalgia for nostalgia about nostalgia.
DrumWild Today they call it MAGA
Actually I'm here because I want to connect with my boomer relatives. There is a disconnect and this is really helping me.
No I don’t agree. These Boomers are offering thoughtful, introspective answers to complex issues. Nostalgia would be listening to David Crosby or some such lottery winner from that era talking about how much fun everything was.
I was born in 1960 ... My growing up years were the 70s ... I lived outside the US from 65/69 so didn’t see the major changes as they were unfolding ... I don’t know if that was good or bad ... I enjoyed growing up in the 70s ... As a woman, I’ve never felt discriminated against in my life on any level but that’s me ... My father was Always highly supportive of me doing whatever I wanted to do in life ... God has blessed me ... Good video ... ☺️❤️👍🏻
The most important thing that this documentary teaches us is that we are still the same people with the same problems and above all, that we learn nothing from our past mistakes. Technology is very advanced today, but human beings have been at the same level for millennia. It's a loop, sadly. Thanks for sharing this great video.
Yup, the Republican party still can't win an election on its merits. Trump's cheating is no difference than Nixon's. They won't take the chance of trying to win honestly. What continues to amaze me is that ordinary people continue to believe that the Republican party will do anything for ordinary working class people. They won't. They only want to perpetuate the wealth and privilege.
Hoffman makes the most insightful and thought provoking films. I haven’t seen one that wasn’t interesting in some way, even the “commercial” films clearly underwrited by oil corporations, he manages to humanize even that work. Brilliant.
So kind of you to say Robert. My day is coming to an end and your comment helps me to sleep soundly.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
Incredible! Its amazing to hear these stories. You never know where life will take you. If you think about it too much, it can pass ya by quickly. Fascinating documentary!
In the past few years finding these type of documentaries is priceless
Then they traded tie dye shirts for business suits and peace signs for briefcases thereby becoming the yuppies of the 80's.
I feel I as a millennial who finished highschool in peak hipster period I am about to front the next yuppy wave as someone who has had it up to my ears with talk of racism, sexism, homophobia,trans phobia and eco apocalism. I am sick to death of finding fault outside the individual and the family instead in our apparently awfull bigoted culture. Im not sure if i am an outnumbered millenial for being over weeping culture or a part of the next rising trend. It all comes in waves in reaction to what has just been I guess.
My father was a teenager in the 1960s, we wasn’t a hippie, but he doesn’t want to be like his parents, my grandparents. Grew up middle class. Wasn’t grew up spoiled, privileged and entitled. Had to work at 10 years old, and 16 years old through out high school. Went to school after surviving Vietnam. He wasn’t a yuppie in the 80s. Worked hard for his family, me and my sister. Didn’t raised us spoiled.
making more money than others.
@@greer545 you and me both. I suspect we are the silent majority
@@greer545 I'm one of those millennials like yourself, I believe we are in the minority, although I've heard it said that through maturity and getting a job, will our world view be reshaped...but by then it'll be too late to fix things because of the corruption we voted in.
I love how the first guy still has 60s style hair. It looks cool!
I think of the 60s as a cursed time in my life and set me up for making terrible life decisions that brought me and my loved ones incredible pain. I was born in 1953
Maybe your just a disappointing fuck up
I'm genuinely sad that you feel that way.
I understand your feeling. I was born a little bit later , but it's not hard to look back on my life with regret.
However, and this is my point, we must strive valiantly to open up to each new day with sincerity. To not get stuck.
In the huge picture, every life story is unique, and every new moment can be a chance to learn and to extend love.
Just try a little bit and you'll see.
(I just re-read your post and realized that I might have misunderstood what you were saying. Apologies.
I'm leaving this reply up anyway because it took some effort and has a good positive message.)
Shoshon the elegant White tiger king now we’re cooking
We all make mistakes in life
Forgive yourself
@@Zach-qs2bw Wow,,! I guess you haven't read all of them films in the documentary that talk about tune in drop out and do drugs. You don't realize that was popular culture and everybody did it
23:43 - This man's introspection and observation was particularly keen to me: 'Both sides of life have a perspectives unavailable to the other.'
(e.g.) When life is suffering there is goodness unavailable to a life that is comfortable; when life is comfortable there is goodness unavailable to a life that is suffering.
Here is a man that has seen both sides of the coin of life; recognizing much about what he can and can't see after living on both sides. Inspiration, motivation, and determination are states of being; not acts of will. (perhaps I've stretched observation too far)
cant you will your state of being. ithink so. but maybe i took to much acid in the 60deez. maybe I'm being a little flippant but I'm actually being serious. peace
His was my favorite too. Wise man there
Put down the blunt, Socrates!
@@brandonmills1135 so glad you posted this comment! I came back and re-read my comment, and re-watched the clip.
Lqughed a bit, even responded to a couple people, here!
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I'm sitting in the park, listening to birds, watching the world unfold on this little screen.
Much love, brethren!
@@DaKloneLiving well its like particles and waves , waves and particles; yin yang, yang yin .. WICH CAME FIRST ?? and even if man can figure that out .. its still of course not the WHOLE STORY , because yin contains yang and yang contains yin; and i'm assuming that waves contain particles(or some primordial form of particles) and vica versa etc etc ad infin.. so it is similarily with our will and our state of being. G D Bless
38:15. "No one would suggest we send half a million troops to fight a war in Burma, Central America, etc." I wonder if
he recalled saying that just a couple of years later at the beginning of the 90s, or even today?
Numbers don't compare, try again. I like your style, though. If they did, war would end in a goddamned heartbeat.
As a millennial daughter of baby boomers, I always enjoy hearing about the 60s. I always say if I could go back in time I’d go there, simply because the music was so amazing. My generation gets a bad rap but you all were our parents, so I guess we are in it together ;) I think in 10 to 20 years we’ll be doing similar interviews about how my generation really loved the 90s :)
Gen z likes the 10s millennials like the 90s and 00s. I see a pattern.
Blue Toad Gamer haha yes I see it too but I also really love the 80s 😉
the music isn’t worth the torment of the 60’s imo
before we were sold to the globalists? thanks, boomers
@@brandonmills1135 This boomer volunteered to serve in the military “ to stop the spread of communism “ in 1971. This boomer was betrayed. Thanks for nothing.
News Flash forever comes with a time limit.
Grate year to come in to the world x
wow, your videos really hit me in the feels!! William Ehrhart nearly made me cry...i get so much hate for leaving jobs/turning down jobs and this guy is the FIRST person i have heard mirror my feelings. thanks again!! :)
THANK YOU for making and sharing quality documentries! I am especially interested in understanding the 60's and seeing it from the perspective of those who lived it. I was born in '62. This gives me greater insight to that era.
The Beatles , Rolling Stones , Beach Boys , Cream . Mamas And Papas , Aretha Franklin , Elvis Presley , Moody Blues , Chicago , Stevie Wonder , Neil Diamond , Marvin Gaye , Jimi Hendrix Experience , Supremes , Smokey Robinson , The Hollies , Lovin Spoonful , Roy Orbison , Dionne Warwick , Sam Cooke , Jethro Tull , Joe Cocker , The Yardbirds , Janis Joplin , Jefferson Airplane , Four Seasons , Doors , Rascals , Monkees , Blood Sweat and Tears , 5th Dimension , Temptations , Ray Charles , Petula Clark , Tom Jones , Gene Pitney , Pink Floyd , The Byrds , The Who......etc. Need I Say More.
bobo brazil bobo Brazil.....Nope...you said it all! I was a teen in the sixties.....so I remember it all with deep affection! I remember all the music groups and artists you have mentioned. Oh my.....I miss those days.....! Sadly!
Dah ?The wrestler Eddie Farhat ( The Sheik) and Herman's Hermits along with Dave Clark ,Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Cowsills with their HAIR!
Carpenters". Rainy day's and Mondays all way's get me down. joni mitchel.
Why modern music is so bad.
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My father, my uncle and my aunts generation. Great music !
I wonder what these people think about the nonsense that’s going on today?
I think what is going on today is abysmal. It feels like every advance made in my lifetime is being reversed. Everything a generation worked hard to make better is sliding into the ooze of an imagined reality that never really existed. We talked about the importance of the environment back in the 60s. People listened for awhile and we successfully cleaned up the air and water, but now that is all being reversed. Still, some things have stuck. Women still have a better situation than they did in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Yet there is a lot more to be done. Some say this backlash was inevitable and necessary. I hope we can all survive this insanity and find a way to stop it. I was born in 1950 and lived through all of this.
Martin Krohne I can tell by your answer that we are definitely on different days of the political coin.
they surely don't blame themselves.
@@runnningonempty look out side of the picture , it is called government , read on what they did as they do always , they create diversion an division , from political , racism , suspression , war/draft , drugs , etc. no excuses , just facts
Today , chemtrails , nasty ass GMO foods , poison plastic water and medical system sucks an no independent doctors , fuckin sheep dip doctors an no rapport with them an piss poor insurance , bullshit obama care , crime is rampid , killings , shit ball drugs will kill you , government way to controlling , suppressing , match box size cars with hard ass seats , bull shit terrorist , no one has time , face in the phone , kids don't know how to get out an play an use there imagination , political area like a circus , you are made to go to school an owe until you get old , who made out on that , nothing but a debt , today's world is divided an suppressed and synthetic and never have seen so many petty ass jobs , work two jobs an you still don't have shit no full time anywhere an that's because of obummer care , employers can't afford insurance so government has forced people into no full time employment , keep the poor poorer , looks pretty sad
"I want to know what became of the changes
We waited for love to bring
Were they only the fitful dreams
Of some greater awakening?" - Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Thank you very much Mr David Hoffman. The 1960 documentary is absolutely brilliant! A rare chance that I would’ve had to see that issue through another lense!
The boomers who were teenagers in the 70s seem to be a whole different generation. The 60s idealisation turned to a more nihilistic attitude.
You're right Gavin. I was born in '57 (64 in May) so I was 12/13 in '70 to 19/20 in '77 spanning Nixon to Carter. I'm not sure how old you are, but yes, I'm a baby boomer, but disconnected from people born in the 1946-'53. They had a much stronger connection to the '60s than I did. I'm part of 'Brady Bunch' kids 'invisible boomers' with only childhood ties to the decade. Everything has advantages and disadvantages. As a guy I'm very grateful I was born after '54 where there were no Vietnam War worries. I will say the years that probably 'shaped' me the most were 1968-1986 from 10/11 to 28/29. Very different being in high school before, during and after Watergate than the Johnson and early Nixon years. I miss the grace and class of my parent's and grandparent's generation; people born in the 1890's through the early 1930's. We're now living in a destroyed country in every way, and that was way before Covid. Everything divided in every way possible. We're in a permanent hell with a government that only cares about the corporations and the military industrial complex keeping us in endless wars. Multi-billionaires like Jeff Bezos paying almost nothing at all in taxes. Today we have most of the problems we had then, and more, but none of the good aspects of the '60-'80s to offset anything. All of the overkill on going to college. It's not worth it at all. Just check out 'The College Conspiracy' here on CZcams. It's one of the biggest lies of all we've been told. A 2011 documentary, only dated by the costs referred to.
@@robmcgowan4034 It depends...I think there is a difference. Some of it general to the time someone was born and some of it has to do with specifics like geographic location and one’s parents. Most of the people my age back in the 1970s had parents who were from the _Silent Generation._ My father was in World War II...something that was more prominent in early to mid-Boomers. Even that fact doesn’t change things too much though. The early boomers are quite different from us late Boomers.
@Gavin Reid
RE: "The 60s idealisation turned to a more nihilistic attitude."
I was born in 1947. I agree with you, except that the '60s idealism didn't just turn to a more nihilistic attitude; a lot of nihilism was already there during that era.
I think the 60's folks were interested in such things as Civil Rights, free speech, gay rights, peace and such. They were rebellious and smoked dope , and measured their success by these things. Many went through the war and were profoundly changed by that. The 70's folks were just rebellious and smoked dope.
I am considered part of the boomers but I'm not part of all that San Fran, etc. We had no tv, no newspapers, no magazines. I was naive and had no idea of the world. I was ten and running around barefoot and climbing trees and playing with dolls. For me, the leading edge got it all and left only crumbs. 1973 was the oil embargo and graduation from high school was two years after that. All my life fighting through recessions and off shoring and out sourcing.
@M James The media and marketing gurus keeping flinging the term around but they do so inaccurately. You are NOT a Boomer. You are Generation X (1956-1968), the decennial birth cohort that came directly behind the Boomers. Dr. Norman Ryder invented the term in his stats lab at the U. of Wisconsin in 1960, because he could not get our birth cohort to fit into the Boomer age pyramid. Demographers treat us as separate and distinct from the Boomers. It has just been more convenient (but inaccurate) in popular culture to lump us all together into the same group. Douglas Coupland, who wrote his semi-autobiography "Generation X", was born in 1961.
Boomers grew up with a vision of the American Dream fostered by our parents. It was their dream, and God knows they deserved it after all they went through. But it was never meant for us. We tried to make changes as all young people do, but in the end I think many of us just fell back into the conservative cushion of our upbringing. I have found the constant clash of my traditional childhood with the open minded culture I experienced as a young adult to be difficult and frustrating. I feel like somehow my life now is a betrayal of what I wanted to stand for as a younger person. It does make me cry.
Many Boomers espoused dreams of changed, put on the image etc. But when the going got tough and the genuine idealists among them expected them to stand up and realy fight for what they professed to stand for, the just sold out to the system and ran back to the comfort and security and affluence of their traditional middle class upbringing. I was never terribly radical myself, just a bit of an outsider who liked t experience different worlds, hear different points of view, but without getting heavily involved in these different scenes I frequented out of sheer intellectual/creative curiosity, not so much sense of adventure. I admire some of the ones who took a stance on some issue and put a lot of fire and emotional energy into it, though I did not necessarily agree with their ideas. However, as time went by, yesterday's radicals mutated into today's conservatives. That is when I lost all respect for such types, some of whom I had been in serious friendships and relationships with, despite our sometimes clashing opinions on issues. I could handle that. But when they did a complete about turn and switched their views, image, lifestyle etc in order to gain some favour from the system eg a lucrative career, I had to dump them as friends or lovers etc. I lost all respect for such people and, even when having a choice about dealing with them in situations like business, employment, politics, religion etc, I avoided dealings with these types. They are not sound, steady, reliable people one can safely place one's trust in, believe, take seriously, invest anything in etc. If they can so easily switch their views they professed to hold so close to heart and just sell out to the system when they found it convenient to do so in order to gain personally eg money, one prize catch as a lover to improve their status, a prestigious job, political power etc, these types could do the same to me, if I was ever so foolish as to trust them.Listento a song called "Politician" by a famous 60's era heavy art rock group
called Cream and it will give an idea of the type of hypocrisy I refer to. Bob Dylan also alluded to it in some of his music, too. If you have any semblance of personal integrity, principes, ethics etc and the ability to tell their absence or presence in certain types, you simply would not be taking advice or guidance or even instruction and orders from such types who sold out to the system.A couple of years ago, one such Boomer I knew as a young person and was pretty close to liked me up after many years absence, keen to rekindle our once strong friendship when I used to admire the zeal with which he pursued certain political ideas he had that I did not share. I just liked his passion and what I thought was his idealism, but which proved to be a misjudgements on my part. He boasted about how well he had done in life and was no longer as poor and miserable as when I knew him in our young uni student days. But he said he was miserable in his marriage with some very successful lawyer and would I care for a drink in a city venue I used to like in my youth but which he hated back then,because he thought it was "too bourgeois" for the radical left wing type he was back then, to be seen in. But, now he seemed to like it and would love to be there with an attractive blonde ie me, girlfriend from his youthful radical days, hanging off his arm. I said "No...I might have been OK there back then, but not now because I am not the same girl you once knew and you are not the same guy I thought I knew and I don't think we would be compatible, even as platonic friends. So, I don't think it is worth my while risking a cat fight with your powerful successful legal eagle jealous wife and besides, I am just the same poor down but not out country bum as I have always been...You can accuse me of anything, but not of failing to be true to what I stand for...Nice to see you again. Thanks for calling. Bye."
Thank you for sharing. Many boomers will not be open-minded like you and admit it. Some stand their ground and think the world owes them for creating the world we live now - like you eloquently put it, they did not necessarily make the world a better place and yes, that's partially their fault.
It's not too late. You can become a leftist any old time. All you need is knowledge for that.
G D exists, and we're responsible for our existences as co creators with Him in our existence. all ignorings of that and rebellings against that is as futile as a dog chasing its own tail- even if it catches it .. so what!!
.dont fret , be alright !
@@lissie3669 or a complete idiot....same thing.
LOVED LOVED LOVED the 60s! No, I didn't do drugs, wanted to preserve brain cells, but ALL my friends were daily stoned or tripping. LOTS of freedom!! Good people😊
Sounds like you grew up in a privileged white neighborhood.
@@Grenadier311 Their point is that the 60s were only worth "LOVE LOVE LOVING" if you were white and middle/upper class. The truth is it was horrendous for a huge portion of Americans. It's aggravating that people have to suffer so much and others don't even have to think or acknowledge that suffering.
I'm glad you had fun then.
There are so many misunderstandings among the comments. So much polarity and blaming. This prevents any true understanding of life. I hope our pandemic seclusion of 2020 has begun to foster a change of heart within all of us.
Life is a gift.
I really like these documentaries about the 60s. Especially since I can't relate to it or clearly understand the attitudes. I like that I am solely a listener and nothing more. I think there is a huge difference in the American experience if you're a generational American versus a first generation American.
As a woman.
If you want men to "pick up the slack and help raise kids and clean the house."
You need to remove the idea that doing that makes him less of a man.
I've met some men who are reluctant to do these things because they are afraid it ill make them look emasculated and their male peers will mock them
Sometimes women even get in on it.
When it comes to raising kids.
If men are seen alone with children there is often suspicion that they are abusers just because they are men.
We need to change these misconceptions and behaviors.
One fact of the matter is that a man who cooks cleans and takes care of the kids is just as much a real man as the man who can fix your car.
And one more fact of the matter is that women can be just as abusive as any man could be.
These documentaries explain so much! Thank you for sharing!
I'm a gay millenial, and I know I wouldn't have been accepted in the 1950s, but I can't help but to feel that the baby was tossed out with the bathwater in the '60s. From my vantage point, if minorities had been included in the prosperity of the 1950s, it would have been the single greatest decade of all time. It was safe, it was community-oriented, people were polite, and it was cool to take a "moderate" Eisenhower-Republican approach to politics. My elder "silent generation" relatives are more thoughtful, reasonable, and humane than the Boomers I've met. Something seems off to me about this narrative that Boomers liberated America from tyranny. I'm certainly happy to be openly gay though! If I have the Boomers to thank for that, then so be it.
I agree, they look at the benefits but seldom at what good was lost or the long lasting backlash of the negative. The idea of FAMILY was lost and those of us born after are left to try to figure it out on our own with no familiar guide posts to redefine it. Society shows how short our new definition falls for the good of all.
@@jrsmith1998 you, go fuck yourself.
@Mark Stevens you, go fuck yourself.
I can see how Boomers with their entitlement, self-centeredness and terrible treatment of others were created, they were spoiled. I just don’t see my own parents reflected since really, the entitlement was for white middle-class Americans. I’m a child of immigrants who were more akin to Silent Generation than Boomers regardless of their age. I wasn’t raised like God’s gift to the world, life was tough for them and it was tough for me. I guess my generations and younger just don’t like their ego bruised. I don’t know. It’s not my narrative and I find Boomers and their grandkids very very spoiled.
Well written Mr Matusin
I still cry with homesickness when I remember the 60s. I miss it. And I don't agree with Annie Gottlieb that we didn't want to take baths: I was a bona fide San Francisco hippy and I took a bath every day.
The difference between the 1950s and the 1960s in sexual attitude is best shown in the movie Pleasantville.
And I knew Stephen Gaskin before he went off and started The Farm and he was an a**hole.
People who think divorce rates today are such a concern never consider some of their grandmas didn’t have the option not to get a stayed married. They had very few professional and financial options outside of marriage and their husbands. That combined with the stigma made it almost impossible to escape a loveless or even abusive marriage.
Which then created the emotionally neglected child. That had no understanding on how to receive love.
and the husbands were messing around heavy lol yapping about morality to the youth lol
Thank you, David Hoffman! Your body of work is formidable. Thank you for capturing history and sharing it for us all to learn, reflect, and create a better world for future generations.
Thank you for your thoughts Gabriella.
David Hoffnan - filmmaker
I have just recently discovered your channel on CZcams. I am soooo glad I did. There is nothing I like better than great storytelling. This one, although long, was extremely interesting. I loved the 60s and wish I was more of a participant than an observer. Thank you.
" ... you begin asking the old questions from the 60's...you begin saying to yourself again what's this all about? Do you really need house? Do you really need the cars? Do you really need the money? ARE YOU BETTER OFF LIVING CLOSER TO THE EDGE? If you really live life any other way but there... I don't have the answer to it (...) Ed Stein - 23:44.
That stuck in my head, too
Life IS a learning experience. The key, is simple and so easy. Leave it a better place than how you found it and that will make all the difference in the world.
We need more film makers like you missed these 90 vibes and you are a big reason the exsist thanks for making history and giving me this nostalgia feeling
Thank you for all the great content! As a 40 year old these peoples insights help me see the similarities to my own experience.
I'm the youngest of 8 kids and a Gen Xer. The Baby Boomers I grew up were teens in the 70s to the turn of the 80s. Thiese Baby Boomers had it different than my siblings.
Thanks for posting these. I was born in 56 and became aware at JFKs assassination. Stayed aware. Now its 2020. I needed to relive the 60s.
Thank you for sharing these with all of us, David! It's such an interesting time to reflect upon as a people. I wish I had grown up in that time to see it, as I feel I grew up in the aftershock of it all!
This is an amazing film. I’ve shared it on FB and with friends. Was there and, yes, it informed much of my adult lives.
Love this series!
These sensitive video portraits suggest that, despite straight jobs, the hippie-hearts of at least some boomers still beat strong - if, perhaps, a bit more quietly so as not to disturb the neighbors.
Whats so great about hippie hearts?
You described what I’ve been thinking for so long, absolutely perfectly.
@@poppyflower7873 you poor naive creature. You haven't grown up enough to realize that your bigotry against conservatives is a bad thing. You like to dehumanize people AND pretend to want what's best for people? Typical deluded selfish hippy..
@@poppyflower7873 You sound like somebody who isn't very open minded if you're that judgmental about people with other beliefs.
Ah van, quiet hearts, quiet mind midst of a noisy sleepless neighborhood
Me. Hoffman,
Your videos are an obvious acknowledgment to your awareness of and participation in the time if the 60s, as was I. You obvious curiosity and wonder for the 40s and 50s is informative and entertaining. Keep up the good work!
If you went through the late 60s and early 70s there is a feeling you can't shake from so much that happened, especially if you were a Hippie or in the movement. For sure the best time in history to be young.
2020-21 in a nutshell. It’s heartbreaking that people’s hearts and minds across the political spectrums were so easily co-opted and that cooler heads with experience from this era didn’t prevail. Only now do I truly understand the importance of the quote ( Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.) Thanks for the video 🍻
The 1950s, 60s and 70s were among those few unusual periods of history.
We boomers just didn't realize we were living something different than what was normal before that time or since.
I'm thankful that I landed on a firm foundation. We boomers need to get our stories, and what we learned, out into the mainstream, before we are forgotten. For the sake of future generations. Be a blessing.
tell us your story, mike :)
Oh, this brings up so many memories, good and bad, and fascinating, too....and love that fellow near the end who said his eight year old son told his teacher."My father fights fascism.." Wow......that kid's going to be doing good in the world tooooo.....Thanks for this look back...I was there then, too.
I wish I had lived in those years, just because of the exceptional music that was made. Ohhh, how I miss the 60s and 70s!
Thank you, David Hoffman. It’s one masterpiece after another on your CZcams channel. Your channel is like a sociology 101 class.
thank you so much, Sara.
David Hoffman - filmmaker
I was in the Navy from 1964 thru late '72. I wasn't lost, so a lot of these folks are strange to me!
Absolutely amazing. Incredible post .
Thank you SO MUCH David for putting this together for us and for sharing this.
I can relate even though my birth year is 1960.
My, MY, my -these videos have been highly impactful for this Gen X’er.
Thank you Mr. Hoffman for leaving these important components of American history for us to have. Salute 🫡
Barry McGuire's prophetic song has come to pass~~~~
We're on the eve of destruction !!
I think as we get older it's common for people to look back and remember the time of their youth as the greatest era, I know that is how I view the 60s to mid 70s. At a family reunion some years ago I had once brought up the question to my parents and older relatives asking what was the best time in their lives (most were in their late 30s to early 50s in that era), interestingly they also unanimously agreed that the 60s and early 70s were best too.
The Great Depression and ww2 were good times they say?? :O You GOT to be kidding !
Problem is, you need money to properly care for your children. Poverty is horrendous. It’s a daily task to have enough to sustain your existence.
All of your videos about the 60’s are very amazing and mind opening to me as a 16 year old in 2023.