Victor Davis Hanson | 1960s: Looking Back and Forward at Counter Culture

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  4. I have read some books about Che. No schools in Argentina have a record of Che attending medical school, so he was not a medical doctor. When he was a young man in Argentina he raped a friend's maid. Being a cold blooded killer, Che was fine in the revolt, but Fidel saw Che as a liability later and might well have sent Che to Bolivia to die. Only after Che had been killed did the world see the photographs that are famous. Fidel publicised Che and used him for a martyr kind of like Hitler used Horst Wessel. Also, when Che was sent to Angola he expressed a racist attitude toward negroes. Che also took watches from wealthy Cubans who were executed. When Che was killed, he was wearing a Rolex. In light of all of this, why is Che a darling of the left?

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  6. I, as well, am the same age as Mr. Hanson and truly believe our moral compass was altered towards the worst society has to offer from the late 60's thru the late 70's. Many things that I was taught to respect or fear while growing up were disrespected or embraced; law, religion, family unit, elders, honesty, work, structure, drugs, alcohol, violence, crime, deception, foul language.

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  9. I have emysema and just finished radiation for lung cancer. Have been taking D3, Zinc and Quercitin and by the way have yet to receive any Covid vaccines. I'm 65 and haven't died of Covid. I've tested negative 4 times & know my fevers, lack of taste and body aches were Covid symptoms. I know these tests don't prove nothing. Medical and science has no more knowledge than the average citizen about Covid.

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  12. Che Guevara was a spoiled brat.So was Fidel Castro. As far as being Doctors, only Che took training. Fidel rec'd a Doctorate in LAW.
    After Fidel and his brothers overthrew the Cuban goverment, they set up a totalitatarian regíme . Raúl was just like his daddy and ran the goverment from day-to-day. Thr funny thing was they ended up lackey's to the Chinese Communist goverment That's why they were trying to get the white regimes out of Africa because they were aiding China in its search for metals and natural resources. Hypocrites, all.

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  14. I've often wondered if at least some of those who ended up homeless/destitute were those who swallowed all the "turn on drop out" mantra and now have to live on social security and dumpster diving. Unlike the rock stars who have millions from record sales to live on.

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  15. I'll be 75 in May. I share VDH's thinking about the 60s. I was in the service from 1968-72 and last smoked pot in 1974. Regret much of what I did in my twenties. See the 60s replicating today. It's VERY discouraging.

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  16. Fidel was trained as an attorney at the University of Havana. He was a crap lawyer who idealized himself as an intellectual. Che Guevara was upper middle class Argentinian who flunked out of med school and took to the road. I think Fidel and him met in Mexico while Fidel was in exile. Che was a pimp in Central America for awhile.

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  19. On returning from his first trip to the North King said publicly that he'd never seen racism and discrimination as bad in the South as what he saw up North.

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  20. How true is it that covid CAUSES tiny blood clots and the morticians can't get blood out their corpses? I watched Planet of the Apes here at youtube and it was about "the forbidden zone."

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  24. was a Dr of law,
    Attracting the attention of the national press, the speech angered the gangs and Castro fled into hiding, first in the countryside and then in the U.S. Returning to Havana several weeks later, Castro laid low and focused on his university studies, graduating as a Doctor of Law in September 1950.

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  26. Was there a 'Counter Culture'? Yes, but not for the middle class and in particular the working class and poor. The upper class and the upper middle class, those who had access to money, social status, and the like, these were the ones that if they did not 'Tune In, Turn On, and Drop Out' would become the Bobos of the 1990s. They gave us the modernized Craftsman style house and furniture, Eddie Bauer paint schemes and automobile interiors (think large SUVs), early Americana furniture, multiple vacation homes, a lifestyle based on faux taste in art and food. Yeah, those people who now lecture us as the latest Karens of morality. These are those who speak of equity and inclusion while living in gated communities and small rural towns. These are the people who deal in financial engineering, social engineering, and globalist political governments.

    The rest of us worked at many different kinds of jobs. We lived a middle class or working class life. Many of us graduated from the university in STEM or business, many of us learned trades and worked with our hands. We often bought older homes and drive older automobiles, sometimes a pick-up truck is the second vehicle. We repair or renovate our houses, repair our vehicles, learn to troubleshoot our electronic equipment, and keep a long rifle/shotgun or pistol in our house for defense. Many of us go to church regularly or attend some sort of religious services several times a year and live our professed morality, teach it to our children. For most of us the music stopped in the 1980s, we could not relate out lives to heavy metal, punk, hip hop, or rap. We stopped listening to NPR and watching PBS because they would not stop insulting us, lying to us, and dunning us for the pleasure of being tortured by them. We started listening to conservative and middle of the road talk on radio and them streaming services. We avoided, for the most part social media. If we used FaceBook it was to keep in tough with family.

    Just as "The Greatest Generation" has become almost extinct we Boomers are rapidly facing our extinction. The Bobos will always be with any society, like fleas on a dog. But we worry what we will leave to out children, our grand children, and our great grand children. I cannot see clearly what is to come and I fear that much will be lost.

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  27. Victor and I are the same age. The 60's counterculture was nothing but a big con, as far as I'm concerned. While Neil Young was protesting the war in Vietnam, I was fighting over there.
    It was the 'countercultural types' that introduced the cancer, which is eating America from the inside, out. They introduced the moral rot that has dissolved most of social fabric of the nation that I , and others, fought to preserve because of our love of country.
    To them, the 'rock stars' of the 60's, I give them the middle finger.
    In the end, the rot they introduced to the country in the 1960's, will in the end, be their complete downfall and undoing.

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