What happened to the 60s movement?

Question

There was a time when the youth rebelled against conservatism, questioned authority and the government, turn their backs on materialism, was aware of current events, and practiced democracy through the form of protesting. It was a time when conservative morality (patriotism, respect for authority without questioning, religion) was replaced by a wave of liberal values (human rights, sexual revolution, equality). What happened ever since the movement? Although I personally know of a few neo-hippies who are concerned about human rights and the environment, the majority of the youth of my age only care about sports, fashion, and money. Just listen to the radio or watch MTV - We have no Beatles singing about love or John Lennon advocating for peace and Bob Dylan singing about the atrocities of their unjust war. Our mainstream music is about bling bling and scantily clad woman and heart breaks and relationships and fashion. What happened to us?

Answer 1

Got left in the 1960s when things were groovy or far out. The flower has lost it's power. And we're still not giving peace a chance. And the electrical dust has rusted.

Answer 2

Because they grew older, made money and acquired possessions. One becomes a conservative when one has something to conserve. And it is a superhuman task for a generation which celebrated its hedonism to convince their offspring that hedonism should be shunned today. There was a veteran writer years before the "60s movement" who saw it coming along with the generation it would spawn. His name was Phllip Wylie and he wrote a book called "Generation of Vipers". If your local library can locate a copy, it's a good read.

Answer 3

The 60's died when they finally grew up...Peace,Love, Dope generation realized that they need jobs to pay for their lives. As they stopped looking for handouts they became part of the establishment they hated. The environmentalists are out there but they are corporations like Green Peace, PETA, moveon.org, the huffingtonpost.com where they allow people to vent and rage uncontrollably and make money off of it.

Answer 4

We rebelled against the 60's generation. :(

I think our ideals were clouded by materialism.... But I don't know for sure

Answer 5

The 60's generation has always been the 'me generation.'  After they grew up they became the 'decade of greed' in the 1980s.  

Now it is the rest of us who have to clean up the messes they left us with.

Answer 6

Well the youth from the 1960s was stired by the conservative lifestyle pushed down upon them by their WWII fihgting parents which in return created the Generation gap, a time when there was a clear difference between the Parent's generation and the youths. Under strict control of their "lifestyle" combined with a war they were sent to fight in that was their parent's war (their parents were the ones who fought against "communisim" or that is, witnessed itstarting. the youth was not alive to see the creation of it)

all lead to the "movement" against the government.

Unlike then, the youth today witnessed the 9/11 attacks on television, and the wars and crisis's of Iraq, a lot of people signed up to fight after these incidents. Plus, we have an all volunteer army, which is composed of real idiots (people sign up typically because they have no way out, or cannot afford college and werent smart enough to work hard in school to earn scholarships, which isn't hard as a fellow r ecent graduate HS student <(i am).

The 60s was a whole different world, different time and todays world just isnt like that anymore, I do think we are slipping into another conforming-like lifetsyle sort of like the 1950s, and then the youth of that generation might rebel because conformity sucks, but youth today ive seen don't really care about the conformity they are living in. Nobody cares about overpopulation or things in front of them, they care about stuff that should be on the backburner.

And the best part is when you tell people this stuff like Ive did, they just look at you funny and mock you.Todays youth is too stubborn and superficial to challenge anything. Nobody has the motivation to do anything.

Answer 7

guessing ball park yr about 14-18 or so... yr a different generation bro... the hippies raised my generation about 30-40 year olds now... so we kinda get it... but you guys are so far behind on the hippie wave... I'm sorry fr you bro... the kids in yr generation are dumb as h**l as you indicate... its sad.

pretty much... the fun stopped in 68-70 after RFK, MLK assasination, Chicago,  Kent State, the Beatles broke up, the sexual revolution had its side effects, and drug addiction got outta control...  and of course Nixon expanded the war.

one of the things that people in the 60s had over ppl now is that they wanted to think back then... everything is wired against thinking now... because it is way eaiser to sell c**p to people that way... there are still ppl that want to do drugs in a consequence free environment, we still have that, they just don't want the burden of thinking anymore...

one of the reasons for this I think is that the hippies were raised in a conformist society, but it was one with a high work ethic that afforded to send their kids to college... now kids just expect that they will get whatever when ever they want it... no one wants to sacrifice right now... take the gas situation for example... no one drives slower to save gas... but that sacrifice would help everyone.

Hippies did love sports too man... especially baseball and basketball.