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29th April 2023

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The Misconception About Baby Boomers and the Sixties
Conventional wisdom places the boomers at the center of the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. In truth, they had almost no
The New Yorker

There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

A much larger number of young Americans went to Vietnam than dropped out.

You know, this is a really good point: the median young American involved in an organized effort to end the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s was a soldier and his organization was the Army.

Youth culture is manufactured by people who are no longer young. When you are actually a young person, you can only consume what’s out there. It often becomes “your culture,” but not because you made it.

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