Ten years

[shamustwin]

There was more change in the world from 1959 to 1969 than there has been from 1969-2009.

Check out the Smothers Brothers story.
They and their television variety show had the huge corporate network CBS AND the U.S. government nervous and locked in battle.

Who'd do that today?

Brad and Angolina?
The Jonas Brothers?

Where's the Next Neil Young?

Damn, how boring we are today!

(all statements IMHO, please feel free to disagree!)

[Scastles]

No argument here, Jerry.

[sloop_john_b]

Yawn.

[goofyfoot]

Shamustwin.....Cogent point. Point appreciated, point well taken. Well, "it" used to be out there. I think you just lassoed it and brought it home. Peace, out.....Goofyfoot.

[rick_ovic]

There was more change in the world from 1959 to 1969 than there has been from 1969-2009.

Check out the Smothers Brothers story.
They and their television variety show had the huge corporate network CBS AND the U.S. government nervous and locked in battle.

Who'd do that today?

Brad and Angolina?
The Jonas Brothers?

Where's the Next Neil Young?

Damn, how boring we are today!

(all statements IMHO, please feel free to disagree!)

I'm pinning my hopes on Britney Spears. Her come-back is gonna save us all.

[shamustwin]

Back to sleep, Biscuti!

[wayang]

Yep, you're right, Jerry...

CBS has replaced Walter Cronkite with Katie Couric, and it's been a long time since anything made the U.S. government nervous...

(...not counting Ashcroft's mortal fear of calico cats, of course...)

[kiramdear]

Jerry, good one. I loved witnessing the Smothers Brothers' saga blow-by-blow, and everything else that happened in those crazy years. Believe me, I was glued to the tube for the Brothers, Ed Sullivan, David Frost, Dick Cavett or any other show that would air the progressive music and/or events of the day (ie. rock and roll).

I believe your first point is essential to anyone who wishes to understand the history of the last fifty years. It's as if social progress, fashion, music, all went into warp speed suddenly, and before we knew it, it had passed and life went back into what we know now, happily after all, giving us plenty of time to look back and really comprehend the amazing things that happened in that era. It was really unique, compressed in our normal sense of chronology since then. The hyper-drive decade of which we speak was the time of my formative years, ages four to fourteen. One had the feeling in those days that you could wake up any day then and the things that everyone was dreaming about might have actually occurred. It was a time of discovery, of hope, of optimism and confidence.

For all the progressive and optimistic types of events and thinking that went on then, it is sad for one to admit that by its end it was a decade of wasted potential.

[wayang]

And the majority of it was wasted in a jungle on the other side of the world...

(Gee, Kira, we're the same age! What a non-surprise...)

[kiramdear]

And the majority of it was wasted in a jungle on the other side of the world...

(Gee, Kira, we're the same age! What a non-surprise...)

I am so un-surprised about that, Brother.

[winston]

For all the progressive and optimistic types of events and thinking that went on then, it is sad for one to admit that by its end it was a decade of wasted potential.

I agree.........what a waste of an opportunity to make a difference. I often wonder how and why we let that opportunity slip from our grasp?

[kiramdear]

Some of us just got too loaded and overslept the opportunity Others went after the almighty dollar. Others just dropped out.

[wayang]

I know! It's almost as if someone was pulling on the other end of that opportunity really hard...trying to make us let go of it...

But let's not get too paranoid...or political...

"How 'bout them Rickenbackers?!"

[kiramdear]

These are only just my subjective recollections, I fully admit.

Say, there may be a little of that hope floating in the air these days. I thought I got a whiff lately.

[wayang]

A whiff, eh? Me too!!!

I think I'll have another...