For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 24, 2018

John and Elly’s son and daughter as well as Phil and Georgia’s nephew and niece have a point there.

I’d have to say some of the best Rock music and it will likely never be repeated. Modern Pop sounds like it all comes from a computer.

Michael and Elizabeth may have been a product of one of those “love-ins”. While I certain associate love-ins and flower power with the hippie movement, I thought sit-ins were more about the civil rights movement. Back when my dad went to Wake Forest University, the students that participated in the 1960 Winston-Salem Woolworth’s sit-in were by-and-large conservative Baptists, who disagreed with the idea of segregated lunch counters because of their religious principles. They were about as far from being hippies as you can imagine.

The Dude abides.

John seems to have hit the same point Randy Marsh did in South Park- that hippies never really ACCOMPLISHED anything.

Since this is about the 1960s, it would be interesting to see the kids ask Elly what she and her family thought watching the landing on the Moon.

All I can say, being a kid at that time, (H.S. class of 1975), was that it was a groovy time.

There were plenty of bad things happening then too. But I try real hard not to remember them. Just the good times.

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I still enjoy the old music, which is some of the finest ever produced, but in the end the hippies and peaceniks grew up and became part of the establishment.

To smoking weed, not having a worry in the world. Would love to have seen what Elly was like when she was high…lol

In Japan, “students” would riot, blockade universities and generally act like grown-up toddlers throwing tantrums. The Communists were too conservative for them. Then they graduated and became solid members of the very conservative establishment.

Actually, the many ‘hippies’ who were also activists helped accomplish things like ending segregation, women’s rights, ending the Vietnam war, and beginning a zillion social programs that help make our country a way better place to live than it was in the ’60s.

We produced a lot of wealth and more kids!

Lots of drugs, sexually transmitted disease, idiots, and mindless liberals………..that’s what it produced. Their offspring are still roaming the streets today.

Nostalgia is making the past better than it was.

Nostalgia is making the past better than it was.

Bellamy Brothers: Kids of the Baby Boom.

I am glad that I have finally reached the age and stage where I can make my grandchildren proud and embarrass their parents !

Another factor to consider is that Elly, John and Phil grew up in the 1950s, which was the most prosperous time in North American history. Does that help to effect their view of the economy today?

He’s an old hippie

And he don’t know what to do

Should he hang on to the old

Should he grab on to the new

He’s an old hippie

This new life is just a bust

He ain’t trying to change nobody

He’s just trying real hard to adjust

Touché……..

Touché……..

What a terrible crime against future generations.

…and we have never had a “great black president” (and never will have).