My Generation OPPOSED the War in Vietnam, and did so AS AN ARMY FOR GOOD . Colleges across the Nation were in "Lock Step", meaning there was a dogged COMMITMENT to >>>>PROTEST<<<< , not just one day out of the month but EVERY FUCKING DAY AND TWICE ON WEEK-ENDS ! The Gov. was kidnapping our Friends, Brothers, Sisters and Cousins, TRAINING THEM TO KILL, and then sending them off to die in the jungle and rice paddies .
I see no such >Commitment< among the present college population--- I am confounded, and BITTERLY so .
I am ANGRY, BITTER, and EXASPERATED . Folks are UN-WILLING to engage in the kinds of Activities that CONFRONT the Status Quo, those of Boycott, Sick-out, Sit-in, Street Protest that were COMMON PLACE , in the late 60's and all of the 70's . It is HURTFUL that the majority of present day Street Protests are those of MY Age, 60-80 .
Because those 'kids' are of >grand-children< Age I am convinced that MY GENERATION has produced this fucking CHRONIC APATHY --- that these 'kids' have been handed EVERYTHING and so NOW 'see' no reason to engage in said Protests, which I insist is a COLOSSAL FAILURE OF MY GENERATION .
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