The 'huitards post-68 lapsed into a post-revolutionary slumber of
hippyish self-help and re-growth schemes; back to the land. A friend
of mine went back to making wool with natural dyes during the 70s and
I think she's still at it. I'm not sure how much longterm structural
effect the 60s generation had on politics or much else. Drugs was
certainly an issue way before the 60s: it became a middle and
upper-class problem from thereonin.
On balance I think what came out of the 60s was positive.
Folk music was a big thing for me too. I came to dislike Martin Carthy
but I still cherish folk music and I've recently listened a lot to
Nick Drake. We used to listen a lot to the wireless, and I have fond
memories of that medium. Indeed: my family never made it to the
sixties party, it was always elsewhere it seemed.
I remember a lapsed clergyman who renounced his dog-collar, became an
atheist who used to sit up during prayers looking resolutely ahead. I
guess he was one of those who dealt with a dark dealer *rolls eyes* I
find this a disturbing part of Dave's thesis: I am destroying england
apparently by renouncing god. Am I neither a citizen or patriot?
Roger
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Adam Curtis's "The Century of the Self" traces a line from Reich and
> Marcuse (and Laing, and...) to yuppies to celeb-culture.
>
> It's always important to ask "whose sixties". Most people weren't
> involved in the swinging metropolitan version. The things my folks
> passed on to me from the sixties were things like Martin Carthy, the
> Incredible String Band - intensely curious about the past, about the
> signs and tokens of our shared culture (conceived vastly more widely
> than "official" culture, but extending rather than abolishing it),
> about the future possibilities repressed precisely by a too-limited
> conception of what our traditions were.
>
> Dominic
>
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