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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
The 60s was already chaotic, and that festival really ended the 60s, highlighting how bad and violent that decade was. My mom told me the 60s was a bad decade, but it was prosperous, unlike now.
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You know--most of my friends and I think it wasn't very chaotic at all. In some cities, like San Francisco--yes. If you watch 60s news clips now, you would think that all anyone did back then was protest in their hippie clothes. I lived in Houston and went to a big, racially mixed high school and although some people did drugs there, it wasn't any wilder than any other period in my life. Friends from the other Houston high schools have said the same.
Same for the 70s. I went to 3 big SEC universities and I saw one protest the whole time (7 people attended.) The only people who wore hippie clothes were the botany majors and they were growing their own weed around campus.
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