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Originally Posted by honeychile
Thanks for asking! The original link doesn't work, here's the article that was in the PG-Press:
So, it wasn't my imagination! If you listen to the very end of "Starting Over" (about 3:24 in the song) you can hear it, and it was confirmed by Yoko Ono herself! To this, I have never met a Beatle, but, as the man said, I may have gotten the best part of the deal!"
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What an incredible story!
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Originally Posted by Phrozen Sands
I wasn’t around in the 60s either, but the differences I’ve notice between the chaotic mess of now vs. back then is folks started movements and not moments. A moment last a few days to a week, and then as soon as folks start losing something of value, they stop protesting and go back to their everyday lives.
Back in the 60s, folks protested and kept protesting until they saw changes. For example, I’ll use these mass school shootings. As soon as a shooting on a large scale happens, students do these short-term walkouts, but then come back to school two days later. If you’re going to protest, don’t come back to school until they do something about the damn guns. I’d even go as far as not paying property taxes to add to a movement. Yeah, you could lose your property and you might have to homeschool your kid, but if a movement like that was done on a mass scale, it couldn’t be ignored. They’d have to submit. But the downside of it, sacrifices would have to be made. You’d have to give something up. Folks won’t make sacrifices like that today. They would in the 60s, though.
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I think the Occupy movement was most similar. People camped out in large areas and there was a lot of support for them. But I don't think the protests in the 60s changed anything at all either. We continued in Vietnam for years, segration and racism continued, etc.
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Originally Posted by carnation
See...a lot of those protests, probably most, petered out or were just for show. Friends at northern universities would get really mad because a big group of protesters would block a campus building or cause classes to be canceled because of the danger. After a few days, the cops would clear them out and arrests would be made and it would be discovered that most of the protesters weren't even students there.
In reality: it was no different from life today.
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That was not the experience in Detroit. The riots of '67 destroyed the city for decades.
When my daughter was living in D.C., we took a Big Bus Tour to be able to see all the highlights quickly in the very short time we had while I was helping her get settled there. At the end of a route, they had us disembark that bus and get on a different one after a 20 minute break or so. So we're sitting on a step at this hotel and I'm thinking "I've seen this place before, but I've never been to D.C. Why do I know this?" I saw there was a plaque on the wall so I went over to read it and it was the location of the Reagan assassination attempt. I had seen that video footage over and over that day and in the weeks that followed, so it was a familiar place to me.
I can't think of particular historic places in the US I'd like to go except maybe Gettysburg and Salem. There are so many places in the UK- like the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, etc. I love all the castles and cathedrals in the UK.