One of the things I did on Independence Day was see There But For Fortune, the documentary on Phil Ochs, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, which is a very good museum. I liked the film better than some of the reviewers I have read did. This was the last day and someone in the audience said that she wished she had come on all four of the days the film was shown, so as to remember it better and think about it between viewings.
Everyone in the film audience was either older than me or much younger. Phil Ochs is a generation older than me and what I find fascinating about his generation is that they really had faith in the actually quite conservative John F. Kennedy and also believed in revolution.
I think it’s also important to note that not all of these people were hippies — they predated that and had a different conception of the world than what came in next, which was the idea that you should cultivate your own garden. As I remember the earlier idea was that you work to change society, and that changes you — not the other way around.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Hey! In that Slant article I linked to, there’s an example of the misconstrual of who made the 60s I notice all the time:
The assassinations of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., in particular, become opportunities for glib, Boomer-centric malaise: “There were so many awful things that happened in the ’60s,” one interviewee prosaically points out.
PEOPLE INTERVIEWED FOR THE MOVIE are not in the baby boom — they’re older! *I* was practically the only baby boom member in the whole audience when I saw it — everyone else was either a senior citizen 65 ish (Ochs would be 71 now) or under 30!!!
Right. All that 60’s stuff went on when I was in my 20’s, and I’m 72 now. I feel that I’ve lived through it very throughly, and as I result find I’m not as interested in it any more.
What interests me now is the information “revolution.” The kids I know these days are totally wired in all the time and popping with enthusiasm. They want more of the good stuff and less of the bad stuff. I hope it works out.
There’s a video of a public domain eulogistic folk song from 1976, “The People’s Folksinger,” which ties-in, somewhat, to this movie, that was recently posted at the following protestfolk channel link:
Hi Protestfolk!
@Hattie — yes, part of the under 30 crowd is very hip! It’s encouraging. I’m trying to figure out what was really happening when I was a child, and my parents are trying to figure out what was really happening in the 20s and the 30s! 😉