Reply #28: Well, they do have something to do with what's happening today. [View All]

[MADem]

Most of the people who are protesting this war are the same ones who protested that Vietnam thing...

I think Woodstock is emblematic of a massive culture change. You just can't let the sixties die, even if you want to, because they won't--they live on in changes that have persisted and become ingrained in our society like women in the workplace, having careers outside the home, birth control, divorce, minorities on campuses and in corporations where they never were found before, that whole equal rights push that took the issues beyond segregation and voting...and that whole war protesting thing, there.

Sure, there was a whole lotta "self actualization" and introspection and angst and whatnot associated with the era, but go back ten years before Woodstock, to Aug 1959--it's like the difference between the moon and the earth. The sixties DID Change The World. They didn't do as much as they wanted to, but they did set us on a different path.