The little film was well done, and i graduated HS in '64...so it was very relevant to me. i also like the poster/graphic.
But anyone thinks who thinks there was some death of innocence had an unrealistic comprehension of the world and the USA in the first place. My father came from poor Irish/Welsh immigrants..he was working at 11 and the highest grade he finished in school was the 8th. He was an autodidact from then on and most who met him assumed he was college educated because he was so well read and spoken. In every era there have been people in this country as well as the world at large who were seperated from their innocence and hope very early in life.
The only innocence the '60's may have claimed was that of people who thought the whole world lived the comfortably homogenous lives they had. The media was growing and it became increasingly difficult to ignore the harsh realities of life on this planet. And i'm not entirely sure that is a bad thing...because you can't fix something if don't recognise there is a problem.
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posted by feywon
But anyone thinks who thinks there was some death of innocence had an unrealistic comprehension of the world and the USA in the first place. My father came from poor Irish/Welsh immigrants..he was working at 11 and the highest grade he finished in school was the 8th. He was an autodidact from then on and most who met him assumed he was college educated because he was so well read and spoken. In every era there have been people in this country as well as the world at large who were seperated from their innocence and hope very early in life.
The only innocence the '60's may have claimed was that of people who thought the whole world lived the comfortably homogenous lives they had. The media was growing and it became increasingly difficult to ignore the harsh realities of life on this planet. And i'm not entirely sure that is a bad thing...because you can't fix something if don't recognise there is a problem.
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