Woodstock and free love

Woodstock was not a victimless phenomenon. From Jules Crittenden:

Woodstock, celebrating 40 years of . . . flaming hypocrisy from the back-to-nature crowd, which trashed a meadow, disturbed the bucolic peace with electronic noise, disrupted dairy operations, narrowly avoided a public health disaster, contributed to the destruction of untold thousands upon thousands of lives, and never looked back … except in self-congratulation!

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Hedonism wrapped in misguided self-righteousness and hypocritical idealism. Living like there’s no tomorrow while pretending you’re making the future a better place.

It was about used and confused young people becoming entangled in (and often destroyed by) the "counter-culture" of promiscuous sex and drugs. It was also about [gasp] the desire to make a buck.


From Gary Graham, a reminder of what the free love generation was all about:

In the sixties and seventies I was a proud part of the peace generation. Long-haired hippies, rocker-lovers, lover-rockers, music festivals, drug explorations, peace not war, and there’s this cute piece right next to me, I’ve got a sleeping bag, would you like to get warm, and there’s a little hash left, you’re so pretty… Hey don’t laugh, we thought we were changing the world. Free love, baby, do it if it feels good, don’t look back, power to the peeps, and do your own thing. Wow, really? You mean you can be cool, have a lot of sex…and save the world all at the same time? Damn this is so f*cking bitchen! Ooh, my hair’s getting really good in the back… (Brown shoes… don’t make it! — F.Zappa)

But wait – I’m in college. I’m on a fast track to jump into the business world. I’m going to be some stick-up-the-butt loser in some establishment straight-ass job, when I really just want to party. Oops, I mean… I want to help save the world! Through drugs, sex and rock and roll. All right, we don’t really have a solid business plan made up yet…but we’re working on it.

Forty years later, free love is mainstream and the abortion industry that supports it and feeds on it is painted as a public servant empowering individual autonomy and liberty rather than the agent of greed and death that it is.

Updated to add this photo of Grandpa Woodstock and Queen Estar from today's Washington Post:


Photo credit: Eric Thayer, Reuters

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