This Former Activist Rethinks The 1960s In 1990
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- As my subscribers know, this clip is a portion of an interview that I made with one of the people in my television series on the 1960s. It was recorded in 1990. This gentleman lived the life of an innocent young boy, a political radical, a hippie, a dropout, and more...... and now runs a successful business making guitars and other musical instruments. It is worth viewing other clips from the interviews that I made at that time. #1960s #1950s #politicalradical #hippie
David, you should consider making this a series with the next installment, “man rethinks 1990 turtlenecks in 2021.”
hahah brilliant
They're cool again, sorry.
I was just thinking that about the glasses!
Jokes aside, it would be very interesting to reinterview these people to see how their persepctive of the 60s has evolved in the 30 years between 1990 and now.
“Former BLM rioter rethinks the 2020s in 2050.”
Remember kids, you're unique... just like everyone else.
Participation awards and propaganda about how you can change the world really bit America back in the butt didn’t it? Now kids and teens treat social justice like a religion just to make themselves feel good, even if the thing they are fighting for is destructive.
@@TheAurelianProject You're very out of touch. It was your generation that gave those awards. It is our generation that has to deal with the societal and systemic bias against minorities and the working class
Just think about human nature. It will come to you.
@@lukemullan636 It is the bias of nature, people are superior. Inferior people like you always find ways of dragging those above done into the mud with you and the "working class" as if such a thing even exists.
@@TheAurelianProject Wow! Your screen name is the mantra of people that believe in abortion(minus the crazy "Say no to mandated vaccines" part) so I'm sure you a supporter of planned parenthood! Thank you!
It's really strange to think how some people will reject what is in their best interest for no more a reason than to say they are not like the people who came before them.
When you grow up spoiled and coddled you don't realize what the previous generation did to make that a reality for you. In this guy's case WWII
My aunt once told me “ If women aren’t liberal feminists, they are against their own best interests”
Me: “So you think you know better for them than they know for themselves”
Her: “That’s not what I said”
Me: 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Don’t be like her Rolfye
@@jwalker6260 You mean like parents? Gosh, it must be fun to be so dumb
@@Shinobi33
I'm thankful for people who generate electricity, pave roads, grow food, build houses, weld pipes, mine metals, refine oil .... I owe nothing to the young men who enjoy playing paint ball with real bullets against other young men around the world.
@@HopyHop1 And they didn't owe anything to you, yet they died for your right to disgrace their names.
“I hitch hiked a lot in those days” I’ve heard this so many times from this generation. My dad said he hitched hike back and forth from college every day.
@ Bob Shack. ...Hitchhiking was common in those days and is in a tradition of common courtesy lacking in today's culture. This prob. arose from the days of the Great Depression when most people DID NOT own any sort of motorized transport...ie. the hobo !! It was as accepted as rifle racks on pick-up trucks just as sleeve & neck tattoos is for yours!!! I bet u dollars to donuts that if past time travel were possible u'd b out there w/ ur thumb up !!
All the 1960s - 1970s old folks I've came across are some the chillest old people I've met. They have stories for days lol
Hell, I still hitch hike.
...which is why most of the infamous serial killers came from that era. Every major city in the 60s-70s had their own serial killer bodying dozens of victims yearly. The innocent looking hitchhiking culture got naive teenagers to enter into the wrong creeps car. Don't trust strangers enough to lock you inside a rolling cage people!
Increasing affluence and divided highways dealt a heavy blow to this once semi-respectable form of transportation.
A endless cycle of building up and tearing down.
Social evolution.
That's the human experience in a nutshell
@@JohanKylander most ofthen degeneration
@@MrJafar93 From what exactly?
the dialectics of modern ideologies
David either has a magic camera or he has a way of shining it on the people that are the most honest about what really went on.
Jerry. Now that I am almost 80 years old, I get the right to tell you that I think you are absolutely correct. It is a subtle and sophisticated group of techniques I use to draw people out so that they are more authentically themselves.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker wish you could teach us how to do that magic too! Seriously
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker I also think the energy you bring also makes them want to open up and tell their truth. Perhaps they subconsciously recognise there is a deeper meaning to taking part in this human audit trail. Love your work stay safe!
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Wow, there's no "thank you" in this comment, just you blowing up your ego even more.
@@brian6533 The man has honed his craft for decades, there’s no shame in him acknowledging he has a talent for it
12:25 _"Damned if we know."_
Man, its as if the same thing is happening today with Social Media.
I thought of the BLM movement. A lot of people jump on bandwagons without thinking carefully about it.
Immanuel Wallerstien says the revolution of the 60s is ongoing today, has not been resolved yet.
I admire his drip.....the white turtleneck, bunched-up curly cut and the deadstock oblong glasses....ur swag is on point here, for sure
He's got a certain je ne ces't quoi, for sure.
Drip is what you make it
This gentleman is remarkably well grounded and reasonable.
This is a gem, hearing from people from the time is invaluable.
This man's honesty is awesome.
What the young (then) man is talking about at 2:20 reminds me of an interview long time Dallas merchant Stanley Marcus had shortly before his death in the mid-90's when he was in his early 90's. He was something of a Civil Rights activist and in 1966 when long hair became a new style on young men for the first time, three high school students challenged the rule and Mr. Marcus paid their legal bills. They won and all went on to be law-abiding, successful citizens, one of them a policeman. The courts eventually overturned the policy banning long hair. A year before, in 1965, a 13 year old girl and her friends wanted to wear black arm bands protesting the Vietnam war and were denied the right. It ultimately wound up in the Supreme Court as Tinker vs. Board of Education and the decision was made in the students' favor. It all seemed reasonable at the time, but no one could have predicted the long range consequences of those two cases. From that point on, school rooms became armed camps as both teachers and administrators lost the right to remove disruptive students from their classrooms. It got to be where you couldn't even bodily restrain a disruptive student for fear of a lawsuit. My mother, who had started teaching in 1924, was ending her 46 year teaching career at this time, which had been in a rules based environment up to that time. They had a brand new school building in 1963 which my class missed out on, but it was still in immaculate condition as late as 1967. In the years 1968 and 1969 so much damage was done to the facility it was hardly recognizable any more. Lockers were destroyed, restrooms were unusable because it's where drug deals went down with seemingly no one in charge anymore because everyone was scared of a lawsuit. She retired in 1970 and lived until 1994 and was eternally thankful as the years went by that she was able to teach during the older, rules based era.
Thank you for sharing that.
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@Hugh Jones It all seems to quaint and silly in retrospect, doesn't it. I've never had much interest in fads, as long as I'm comfortable and got mine I'm perfectly happy. BTW, when someone rhapsodizes about The Great Society, I like to remind them that the impulses that animated the Great Society social engineering programs were the same ones that inspired the Vietnam war, it's no accident they happened at the same time. If you spend enough money domestically you can solve every problem of human existence. If you can get enough boots on the ground, America with its superior gadgetry can beat any enemy, especially one stuck in the Stone Age, until you can't--ten years later both were a disaster.
I think the most important thing we can gain from these is an understanding that we might fundamentally disagree on one level, but ultimately we find common ground. His final statement about kids and the next generation( 14:40 ) was that common ground for me. That's my exact teaching philosophy, too.
Thank you for sharing these documentaries. History does indeed repeat itself.
I imagine we all look back on our lives with some regrets. How else would we know we lived?
This was fascinating. Activists today may end up where this man is today.
You mean that the crazies who stormed the Capitol will be normal 30 years from now?
No, don't think so.
@@SupertzarMetal oof if the capital riots were today's activist we are in big trouble
@@SupertzarMetal It was the lies told that sent them over the edge. I feel sorry for them.
Anyway, I don't think they are like this guy.
@@SupertzarMetal
It’s hilarious how fixated that lefties like you are on that one horrible act when BLM and Antifa have been burning down cities and basically promoting censorship for the past 4 years. But I suppose a sheep will always go “baah.”
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No, they aren’t like this guy because millennials are far more similar to him than the capital rioters were. Both were young at the time, and both worshiped the idea of social justice without considering the consequences. Don’t even try to pretend that conservatives are the big bads here, or that conservative propaganda is as prominent as you think it is, it’s just not true.
Very good look into a different generation. I’m fortunate to have grown up, after the 60’s, in an area that allowed a good experience into the 60’s generation but also the late 40’s and 50’s so called beatnik ideology. I can decipher both sides of that culture clash. You may not think there was, however it was there. What this interview represents to me is the transformation of what belief systems were and what crazy ideology is today this man has critical thinking and that is what’s lacking from many citizens today. It isn’t just in activism it’s in daily everything from jobs to media to day to day experiences we are actually de-evolving.
There's still reasonable voices out there just as there are many kind, idealistic, and compassionate young people but the overall narrative has changed. The echo chamber of social media has washed out nuance and self-reflection in exchange for vanity and virtue signaling.
Well the "shock doctrine" was created to instill citizens into obedience (just think of 9/11) and likewise, i think a lot of qualm or fault could be found within the military industrial complex or maybe just you know, the fascists which have equally been long standing and opposed to most social movements, and have routinely shunted or silenced them. There was a lot of leftist, particularly communist regimes continually throughout the 20th century and really, to answer this they always utilize or turn to fascism and other techniques as a way to curtail all of this, that being said most of what you see in the world now is the result of very liberal and "neo-liberal" polices and in a way have kind of ended up representing the opposite of what they originally stood for initially.
I grew up in the 90s (well I was a child then) and studied it all and it was quite an interesting journey for me but it's been somewhat disheartening to see how like easily large percentages of the populist only care for the excesses of capitalism, but then I cannot help but find myself being really shunted to the fringes of society seemingly for some reason. I guess I consider myself somewhat of a socialist these days but it's still hard to always say for certain, I just can't help but think this neo-liberal regime is seriously god awful and horrendous. It's so vacant, consumerist and just opposed to freedom of speech and so contradictory, hypocritical, god damnit.
But I mean I discovered and was really into all that counter culture stuff back then, I read Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg and the like it was quite influential on me but we live now in a relatively blanket waste land it feels like to me. I am like the only person of my kind still out there who really understands or represents that stuff.
@Vasy LOL
“Yeah free love and weed was good...... but I wish I’d put more into my 401k”
This is kind of a example of what not to do
Imagine if he just bought 1 cent worth of bitcoin in 1966, he would be zillionere now. Boomers never learn
@@Loroini 1966 there was no Bitcoin lmao it was created in 2009
Great question at 12:13. I always ask the same question whenever someone's sloganeering, but they're rarely so aware/humble to admit they don't know. Too many people get swept away by exciting-but-vague ideas only to find out that devil is always in the details: revolution, marriage, a new car, children...
activism makes one intellectually lazy.
@@Straitsfan Probably because otherwise you become Socrates, and we all know how that turned out.
@@ryh5169 you become wiser and more humble? wow what a tragedy that would be
@@AugustasKunc you see you don’t know who Socrates really was, who are you to be so pious?
6:30. The great answer
He looks like a 1980s grandma
The hair. The glasses. The Grandma turtleneck sweater thingy.
I thought it was going to be a middle aged woman when I clicked the thumbnail
surprisingly the glasses, hair, sweater were "in" in the 1980s.... so he actually would be considered with it by 1980s standards.
OMG, my grandma always perm her hair like that
😂😂😂 he does! 👍🏻
14:45
"They're not kids, they're human beings. They're just small and they don't have a vast realm of experience yet"
We have a name for people like that, they're called kids.
I think his point in saying that was to reinforce the notion that kids should be treated with respectful explanation of why things the way they are, instead of shutting them and forcing to conform to whatever the adults say. Coming from an ageist Asian society, I can see perfectly how shutting kids from the realities of the world alienates them further from the perceived realities of previous generations. This in turn shatters the expected "progress" their adults wanted from them.
@@Hamidlinski It was a joke man.
@@kylespade5958 woosh! haha. In all seriousness though this man contradicted himself many times. And I'm not bashing him, but feel like I could see him working things for himself as he thinks out loud. He had no idea how things turned out so bad, and all the answers came out his mouth, and he might not have noticed.
@@kylespade5958 then why didn’t I laugh Kyle? Why didn’t I laugh? Kyle?
@@Hamidlinski The flip side is that kids by and large are not capable of really comprehending more complex issues, so if you try to "respectfully explain" things to them they end up with broken mindsets (ie the proliferation of socialists that has come from more permissive parenting since the 50's).
Hilarious to me how many never examine historical events and persons. Just an I believe statement
An element that can easily be missed is that in America, are able to make the decision to pursue any direction of life and to make so many mistakes along the way. It's important to regard each other, even when we have such differences along the path of life of who we become and where we end. Hopefully, the most of us end up being better people.
Thanks!
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Classics are important. Start with a foundation and grasp context of your surroundings. Then build on that with what's in your heart
Agree, I didn't understand his comment on how reading the classics led to self-centered, self-indulgent life? He's mot reading the same classics I am?
Strange that some of today’s social leaders emerged from this overly short sighted, idealistic, and selfish generation.
strange? i wouldn’t expect any different
@@Guillhez really? They were direct descendants of the people that witnessed and or partook in the some of greatest social atrocities of the 20th century. You’d think a different type of mindset would rise to the top of society.
@@seanr6102 Gee, it's almost like every generation is shortsighted yet thinks they're better than the last. 🙄
@@valjean3663 yeah its human nature. Its just how it is
@@valjean3663 haha well said
I used to hold a lot of scepticism for capitalism and democracy and a lot of sympathy for communism when I was a pup. I am embarrassed to type this.
As I got older the value that I hold towards the individual just got deeper and deeper. Today I would take up arms against any communist threat.
This is a truth that echoes down the ages. The idealism of youth is replaced by the realism of maturity. Today’s Woke, vegan, statue defacing, socialism espousing, Antifa activists will be the backbone of the Republican Party of 2050. Heaven only knows what dangerous, radical views they will have to combat when dealing the the generations that succeed them.
Most "conservatives" I know of prefer a one-party republican corporatists state, with trump at the helm, basically the worst aspects of 20th century socialism.
Still have a lot of scepticism for democracy with universal suffrage.
Adrian Alexandrov I think that if we wish to live together in a world of finite resources then the best way to do that is through constant and renewing contracts with one another. Democracy though not perfect is the best system at the moment.
Life isn't so bad for us living in western democracies. I think we are actually quite lucky.
Rebecca White I feel it's not so much the youth that we have to worry about but more clever older people manipulating the youth to do their bidding.
Think for a moment of the 1979 Iranian student revolution. Did the students inherit the system? No. The religious hierarchy took over. I don't think that was an accident.
Now look at what is going on in the us re BLM and Antifa. Who is benefiting from their mindless and destructive efforts? Who is egging them on? Funding and covering for their crimes through their media?
This is a good interview. Thanks for posting.
You offer the most excellent subjects. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you. So pertinent now - the lessons to be learned yet again
(Cough) BLM
(Cough) Antifa
There is a way for human beings to get along with each other... it involves people agreeing the state is evil.
These ideas rely too heavily in the supposed inherent good of all people. If we're going to try to get along then the understanding that people are self-interested is vital. If you remove that then you're setting yourself up for disaster and disappointment.
@@dibdap2373 If people are fundamentally flawed, then all the more reason to not create an institution that gives flawed people power over others.
@@handyman1016 Except not all people are as flawed as each other, are they? Yet on the other hand, give the average man too much freedom and he'll make himself a slave - see, well, today.
yes, because we'll all hold hands and sing kumbaya once muh ebil guberment has been abolished or whatever. Idiot
@@gerald1495 Where did I say everyone would be peaceful ?
Removing a cancer doesn't mean a person is perfectly healthy.
It just solves one big problem.
Old hippies hate logic. Now, their gran kids are the same and that's called progress. Water runs downhill, No matter what you belive.
I like that, "water runs down hill, nomatter what you believe". Its sad thats a likeable line. It shouldnt be (but people have quite the "new wave" ideas)
Very vital work that we can contrast towards our own time, all these videos are great accounts of life
"I haven't fallen into the trap of, 'you have to make money doing this'" - As much as I love listening to these guys, I can't stand listening to Boomers say things like that.
Its not a boomer thing to say. Money is meant to be a tool, not a god. Trying to make money for the sake of making money will lead you down a bad path where one day you'll wake up and wonder where the past 40 years of your life went.
"We're all individuals!"
"I'm not."
"SHHHHH!"
“I’m” is something only an individual can say.
the Q&A it’s a reference to this:
ua-cam.com/video/KHbzSif78qQ/v-deo.html
@@twkotb Ahh got it, thanks for sharing the link
great vids, cant help but see this guy looks like Ewan Mcgregor and Bill Gates combined
Thanks
Now i cant unsee it
A splash of Dahmer as well unfortunately.
Everything you put up here is brilliant David. Thanks!!
So...the violence was a problem, not because people could get hurt, but that the group's image could get hurt? Hmm. Too late, I guess.
Great observation
@Klaa2 Care to elaborate?
Good interview. I enjoyed his journey of self-examination in the context of growing up in the sixties. What worked and what did not....what needed to be reevaluated. I'm glad he didn't embrace the "f'k everyone I got mine' values of the eighties but still believed in being motivated by what's good for the society as a whole. Thanks David.
Well shiet, looks like we've made a full circle. Jokes aside I gotta say this interviewing style was very captivating and personal. It's incredible what you can do with one camera, well framed, some directional light and crisp audio. The black background further enhances the focus on the person interviewed. Most interviews today are shot from 3-5 angles constantly switching views every couple of seconds even in monologue with graphical backgrounds or in fancy rooms. Not saying anything is right or wrong, I just try to understand why this interview had me in a state of trance for 15 minutes.
Thank you for your comment and your perception, Robert.
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I designed that style way back then but it is now kind of a standard for some old-time filmmakers
Get we get a round of hands for the most hilarious turtle neck in history though .
Underrated comment
He looks like he is stuck in a jar of mayonnaise.
@@ChillerVisionz
He's learning the instrument of his people!
That's all he understands of and learned from his activism? "I look from the early 60s to the late 60s, and I don't really understand how we went to the extremes that we got to, I really don't understand how we went from 'change' to 'revolution'..." It's not as if there are no answers to those questions. Finding them, however, takes some digging, and may cost you your illusions, as well as some of your good opinion of yourself.
No one likes to learn that they were a pawn for interests they claim to strongly oppose
I'd like to have a beer with this guy, he's pretty honest and articulate and was a participant in the late 60s - 70s US counterculture.
Great videos, thank you David!
I'm amazed in your skill of letting folk open up. You really made a memorial to years long past. Immense respect.
Thank you for your comment. If your resources allow, I would sure appreciate your using the THANKS button under any of my videos including the one you have commented on. It is something new that UA-cam is beta testing and would mean a great deal for my continuing efforts.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Oops, sorry. Done :)
Mr. Frond reminisces about his youth.
Really enjoying these films David. I'm feeling inspired to film interviews with my parents before they are gone.
The situations change but it seems people basically don't change. They behave on a spectrum depending on the situation. How would Millennials live if they were in the 60s. Probably much like the hippies did. I also think that demographic swells and contractions have had massive effects on society. Very interesting ideas to consider.
my suggestion? You have to do it. I have created videos that are on my channel to help people film their loved ones in ways that will matter to future generations rather than just getting the facts.
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Today I’m editing a. Interview I shot 6 years ago. The tv station never paid me or used it so I’m just going to post it. I had never heard of the guy but now he is famous. But just a remarkably nice gentleman. He plays the character of Aquaman now in the movies. I love these time capsules. I’m watching your whole collection at double speed :). Thanks again.
if you are an editor, I understand watching at double speed. Not easy for everyone else if at all possible.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Lol. Too much coffee. I do my podcasts at double speed as well. Lately I've switched to producing movies and tv. Should be premiering Shattered this month and Edgar Allen Poe's Telltale next month. Very excited. I am also almost ready to release an adventure series for tv about my adventures in Alaska called Alaskan Pioneer. Fingers crossed. Nice chatting. I better get back to work!
Amazing stuff you are doing. Good luck.
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Interesting video Mr. Hoffman. I was wondering. Why dont you make a video where you review activists now and activist from the 60s? You could compile the two videos together to see if there is any similarities
Tovar. That is an excellent idea. I would love to make those videos, but these days, travel is just too expensive without an investor or a network signed on in advance and I just don't have those kinds of contacts anymore. Everything I do I can do from my house or my neighborhood. And doing interviews over the web don't allow me to make the emotional connections needed to have present-day folks be as honest and revealing as I can get her in face-to-face interviews.
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@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker it was worth a shot but I understand.
David Hoffman, are you familiar with Benjamin Boyce? He’s done an extensive series on the Evergreen State College debacle. His name is his UA-cam channel.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker What if you started a crowdfunding page like IndieGoGo or Patreon, to make this a reality? I'd gladly support your work.
So interesting. Thank you.
Dearest david these things are so important like a snapshot of the currents of history
activism is used by the system to create the change that is in its best interest. you are not a rebel
How do we fight injustice?
@@sava411 get ideologues out of government.
I wonder what this guy thinks of the modern day woke left. Would be interesting to know.
I would like to know what a lot of them think about it.
It’s crazy to think that the same boomers that millennials and some of gen z hate so much were very much like them in their youth. Millennials will eventually grow up and realize, just like the boomers, that they made a horrible mistake, and yet the young generations of the future won’t listen to them just because they will be old age that point. It’s a never ending socially destructive cycle
: They got to the extremes they went to because, as he said, they didn't even know what what they were sloganing meant but were just trying to get change. It's hard to change from anything if you have no idea what you're trying to get to.
To everyone complaining how it was "so much better to be young in the 60's and the 70's"... Realize that you ARE living through that period right now. We are right back in the hot center of the late 60's. Can't wait for the loop to go forward again :D
Agreed. The only difference is that the current generation has the potential to do much more damage.
Couldn’t disagree any more
Too old for the draft now, cool
This guy has to be 80 years old now if he was 20 in 1970. What's his name? I'd like to know what he's been doing for the past 30 years.
would love to hear what this guy has to say about activism in 2020 10:44
I'd like to hear this guy's thoughts on the current culture war.
Praise kek
There is no war. It's bullshit
This guy sounds so cool until you wake up and realize that most of our troubles we are having today can be laid at his and his Comrades feet.
Can you please give me an example?
@@lemiphil2388 Bill Clinton Hillary Clinton Bill Ayres And others who are in our Colleges and .Gov shaping us into a Marxist nation that they have served since the 60s.
@@ExarKenneth71 I'm amazed how you can think a bunch of lefties on tumblr and pronoun issues are the main problem. And not pointless forever wars started by Bush in Iraq and Afghanistan or the fact that the economy is dominated by glorified gamblers and gangsters who plunged is into recessions and then got bailed out and given raises.
Or the insanely high levels of wealth inequality. Or the fact that America's main source of information, news channels, are all privately owned by massive media companies who use their influence to manipulate the public for their own interests.
These are all problems caused by hyper capitalism and war hawk neocons (Republican and Democrat)
I know being a social democrat is the right position because both CNN and FOX constantly shit on us and our policies, despite those policies already having been implemented successfully in Scandinavian countries.
You know why people have to pay 40$ on their hospital bills to hold their own babies at birth? Or several hundred to a few thousand for an ambulance? It's not because anti corporate hippies in the sixties succeeded, it's because they failed. And now pharmaceutical corporations and insurance companies slide millions of dollars into the pockets of greedy politicians. Non of which, I can assure you, have ever read a word written by Marx.
FOX, CNN, the GOP and mainstream Democrats all angle into the culture war, because that's how they continue to divide the working and middle class while they continue to leech on a broken system.
America used to have labour unions who would literally go to war with corporations to improve the working conditions of their members. That's all gone now. In France, unions will bring the whole economy to a screeching halt in order to get better working conditions, in America when workers strike, it's barely covered on the news and companies will cancel their healthcare.
We are so completely owned and cucked by the corporations and most don't even realize it. It's an absolute shame.
@championchap Your correct but name any other system that has lifted hundreds of Millions of people out of Poverty. And produced a system that has the poorest among us to be better off then 75% of the world. I'm retired and what little I make is more then what the majority of the world makes. And these leftest/Marxist want us to crash and Burn and become just like the rest of the world. I'll fight and die before I let that happen.
@@Alexander-tu3iv I'm as far right as they come and you probably have no idea how close we are in alot of these issues. But as for Unions I have no use for them I've heard my kinfolk cuss about the CoalMine Unions too much and how they take their dues and let the owners shaft them about everytime. As far as your first issue about the Pronouns they are not the major concern but they are a symptom of the sickness that's prevalent in the body. As for Iraq/Afghanistan wars as a Marine I supported both but not the Nation building that Bush did. And Obama and Hillary's Arab spring did more to destabilize the area then Bush's Iraq war did.
Fascinating to watch, especially considering that these developments do not always happen the same way everywhere. I was born in the late 80ies. My parents, aunts and uncles were not part of this kind of movement, since they all grew up behind the Iron Curtain where such behavior was heavily punished. On the other hand, the Easter Bloc supported the '60ies hippie movments in the West as a means to destabilize society (reminds of you something?). Yet, we should not look back at this generation and say "look how dumb they were by trying to change something, and now we're living in the dump". They did indeed change something, even it's not that noticable.
Like, the 60ies in West-Germany were more about processing the Third Reich, and how their parents took part in arguably history's greatest crime by their own free will (and yes, there was intimidation and peer pressure, but people still had a choice not to commit those horrendous crimes to their own kind but they did). Also, look what happened with the Civil Rights Movement. We do indeed have still a long way to go, and Neo-Liberalism is shitting on all those ideals by putting a label on it and market it to a younger generation as a lifestyle. But hell, things did change, and they will change again. Where to? Let's see. In any case, things are not that simple, and I believe we all need to figure this crazy, nonsensical world we live in. So make the best out of it people!
70’s 80’s early 90’s were great the best times in my life . Modern day is full of hate and bullshit .
Imagine "Former BLM Rioter rethinking the 2020s in 2050“
Laura Dee Yeah Fuck fighting for a cause!
@@sabeto5527 what cause are they fighting when they're really being used as a pawn while the organizers collect $90 million dollars from donations and not a single penny goes to help a single Black family in need?
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What cause? The cause for making black people superior to whites? I like I seriously don’t understand what they want when they are, and have been for decades, equal under the law. Assimilate, become normal members of society, contribute to the economy. Like honestly it’s not that difficult of a concept to understand in order to live a better life in America. I’m part of a family of immigrants too and we did just that and we ended up well. And now people want to take the decades of hard work away from us because they can’t get off their asses unless there’s a riot going on.
@Grece Lena
Trust me. Once the term of this new senile geriatric patient who escaped his retirement home and happened to get elected runs it’s course people will be crawling back to Trump or another strong Republican candidate. I’m actually glad Biden won because people forgot how miserable it was to live under Obama.
@@TheAurelianProject The issue still is disproportionate police brutality against black people as well as an unfair justice system. That's what the riots were about. And even if cops kill more white people than black, why does it make it ok? Wouldn't you be happy if we got police to stop killing unarmed white people too?
That turtleneck is 🔥
I was raised in a Military family and my dad was in the Air Force for 23 years. My dad threw a fit when I registered as a CO in 72. I don't understand how we went from wanting to change the world to wanting to buy it
This generation will end like yours - hypocrites
@@thebullybuffalo na
She's beautiful, I don't care if she doesn't have any values anymore.
I've never been satisfied with or without money but life is much easier with it, but getting it is never worth it.
Wrong. You can get lots of money by helping others which can be extremly fullfilling.
@@dualfluidreactor you need to write a book then on how that’s done.
Lmao that’s what my dad always told me as a kid. He always said “money doesn’t make you happy but it sure makes your life easier.”
He's got Harry Caray glasses.
He reminds me of Mrs. Beasley. The doll the little girl had on the tv show " Family Affair". Even then he's less of a Soyboy than these snowflakes we have to put up with now.
Why do so many "Activists" look like characters from the Muppet Show?
It's strange that a minister's kid couldn't see that what the 60's were really about was inverting the dominant paradigm and it's why we are where we are today with the culture now in the hands exclusively of the godless, the irreligious,and the amoral who got their start in the radicalism of the 60's. And, apparently, he still doesn't see that he played a part in that inversion in his misguided quest to find himself in the radical culture rather than in a reformation of the culture; away from the drab materialism and stultifying conformity to a genuine realization of each human's worth before God and each other.
The US has so many activists today who continued their work from the 1960s. Seems this guy was just going through a phase and was just casually part of the movement. Seems he didn't actually know what he was fighting but there are people who are/were more organized and commited than him. Lets not forget how J Edgar Hoover's FBI targetted certain Civil Rights groups and citizens because they made progress in their communities.
Vietnam, Chicago Trials, IRA, Cuban Missle Crisis, Black Power Movement, MLK killed, JFK killed, the NYC Black Out was all going on during the 60s. He's telling the story of being a suburban hippie- it's not the story of of everyone during that time.
Wow...this was excellent... I'm curious what he thinks about what's happening in the county presently...🤔
7:10
He’s already passing something on to another generation right now.
just something i want to say, the free love movement this is about is not very analogous to recent protests today. The movements of today are much more closely aligned with the civil rights movement of the 60's which was a completely different movement (you would not find someone who marched at Selma speaking with regret the way this gentleman does about their activism in the 60's). Protesting against racism and institutional inequality is not anything like protesting for free love and against conformity. I'm not judging any of these movements, it just needs to be said that trying to make parallels is intellectually dishonest and ignores the radically different causes these movements advocate for.
"Human beings could find a way to get along with each other" right. Bc getting out of Vietnam had no repercussions for the south Vietnamese.
Follow your heart? Our hearts are evil.
Idiocy has no boundaries. Neither does ideological possession or ignorance. His dad was a minister, he didn't get it.
Now these people have kids......
Your channel is great!
It’s interesting how people protest the flag and the anthem when it’s these things that make those protests possible. It’s what binds us as a nation even though we disagree.
It's not protesting the flag, it's the fact that you are compelled, pressured, or otherwise coerced into saluting a flag or making a pledge of allegiance when as a supposedly free individual in a supposedly free country you should have the freedom to not do it. Pressuring children to make salutes and pledges is not education, it is indoctrination.
Alinsky said to pick a protest that will attract attention.
soy was a problem, even in the 90s
Ahh youth. A time of testing what we grew up being taught.
It's utterly crazy, this was the old hero. From 20 years ago. Look how proud he is of himself. But now it plays differently. I don't stand with him. I question him.
He should make a video about rethinking his glasses now in 2020s.
I am gonna sound like the middle-aged that I am, but... kids, you will almost certainly abandon, by the time you are 35 or 45, a great many of the ideas and beliefs you hold at age 20. So don't commit yourselves too deeply.
Interviewer: "What did you mean by 'down with capitalism'?"
guy: "Damned if we know..."
Yeah pretty much sums up leftism
Or maybe you should educate yourself.
they used to fight for peace, now they fight for ???????
End of police brutality, stopping climate change, depends rly
@@ur4913 No, they fight for corporations. Progressives are Brown Shirt thugs.
It's the same with every revolution: groups of people begin to think a certain way, they start demanding change and when that change doesn't come fast enough, the start up an uprising, a revolution and then when they get to the other end, no one has any clue at all as to just what they wanted to change in the first place. You want the change, but really, what do you want to change?
"Artists and musicians are always one step to the side anyway." ~4:36
Cambridge became the domain of the devil in the late 1940’s when they cancelled Father Feeney and his ministry.
I wonder if he's rethinking his choice of frames in 2019.
Ah, sounds alot like today with antifa and all that jazz. If you dont know history we are doomed to repeat it. Or how ever the saying goes lol
Yup and next up is a decade of bullshitting n partying like the 70s
We're actually seeing something more akin to the 1930s era rather than the 1960s
These people weren't violent like antifa is. This guy is literally against violence where is antifa is open to using " _any means_ "
Hahaha, this aged poorly. Alt right nutjobs storming the capitol killing a cop and trying to kidnap and kill Congress people
@@fightingblindly The prolonged campaign of violence and sedition incited by the Democratic Party against the American people is in no way comparable to the events of January 6. The toll in terms of damage to property and lives lost as a result of the violence incited by the Democratic Party dwarfs what occurred on January 6.
Gen Alpha needs to see this... if they're able to pay attention hopefully...
10:28 and that my friends is human nature, nobody is above human nature
In the late 60s Cointelpro was agitating. I'm surprised he didn't find that out. Kids don't understand that wars are orchestrated by the elites. The people can get along fine if we are left alone.
Thanks, David. This certainly brings back the memories of the era. Many of them good. some a bit lustful, but memories of youth, for sure.
I really want that sweater, glasses, and turtleneck, that whole outfit is a lewk and I'm not even mad.
the hippie movement was bound to fail
It didn't fail.
That's Charles Nelson Riley's illegitimate son.
Jeffrey Dalhmer is speaking some truth here. 😂
😂😂😂😂!!!!
I'm 66. We were not taught to think for ourselves in school; rather we were lectured to in preparation for college or sent to vocational classed for a blue-collar job. Teachers didn't expect to be asked questions about subject matter. Even in classes like social studies and English, students were told what things mean rather than asked for their opinions. I remember short hair being required of football and basketball players. I remember our cross country coach totally misrepresenting the inmate revolt at Attica, which was going on in another part of the state. After graduation, I was basically a George Wallace conservative. But then, during three years in the Army, I began to educate myself through books. By the time I finished four years of college, I was a democratic socialist, which I still am today.
It seems to me that today's students are more likely to be prompted to develop their critical thinking skills. I believe that society is slowly progressing with each generation. I certainly never expected to see gay marriage legalized in my lifetime. I never expected to see a black president in my lifetime. The explosion of social media is a two-edged sword. Social media allow any kid to develop their creativity, which is something my generation had a harder time doing. But social media also becomes what television was once called, a vast wasteland of empty ideas and vapid entertainment. Social media also is dangerous, with outright lies presented as the truth. For every two steps society takes forward, we take one step back. The fact that a person like Trump was elected and almost re-elected shows that we haven't progressed far enough and thoroughly enough from the 1960s.
Funny how the summer of love killed the love song, before the 60s every song was a love song
Every political hippie song became a hate song...interesting.
@@jon4715 you're being facetious, but look what it lead to, the modern hippies, (@nteefa and the like) are the most hateful people out there
@@stag6161 I'm not being...I thought it was an interesting observation that so many protest songs of the era weren't tempered with peace, but rather anger and indignation. It's not all of them, but looking backward at a time I didn't live through, there were quite a few songs like that that were popular.
You also have to consider that the hippie movement and the antifa/blm movements are largely influenced by American intelligence agencies, if not outright created by them, despite them seeming organic.
@@jon4715 OK I misread the tone, I think we see eye to eye
This is the face of a man that would put someone in a gulag. For the greater good.
The 60s was a social engineering job done by powerful interests