The teens of the sixties were responsible for more cultural change than any other generation. I can say that so definitively because I was a teen of the sixties. There was no limit to our imagination or the lines we would cross. We experimented with life like no other dared. If there was a rule, we broke it. Protocol meant nothing. We would support any cause that made half way sense even if it couldn't be justified. We were so smart and brave and forward thinking. It was the Era of Rebellion.
We were the generation that changed music as quickly as we did fashion. Drugs came out of the closet. Sexual taboos were abolished. Community living rather than family living was the way to go.
Women no longer stayed at home and provided the stability and security so needed for family growth and success. Women could definitely run a company and would one day rule the world. Anyone can take care of a child. Hire someone to clean the house and do the laundry. Restaurants provide plenty of food. Why should women stay at home when they had so much to offer to the rest of the world?
And now we pine for the way it was. We changed the world! What in the world were we thinking?
Belle
Saturday, February 13, 2010
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