Oh, and guess what? It was those pesky BOOMERS who got to actually experience that peak. None of you miserable zoomer malcontents will ever know what it feels like to be truly free.
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It was the high water mark for music, but not for humanity.
It was just a bunch of unemployed druggies dancing around. The Woodstock attendees have contributed nothing to humanity.
And you can read Didion’s “Slouching Towards Bethlehem” for a perspective on how the West Coast group of ignorant, deluded, self-absorbed hippies lived a life of destruction in the name of peace and love.
Lots of understandable ideals, a wealth of good music, many good people, and some decent outcomes. But the high water mark for humanity? Nah. And God help us all if it’s even close.
That large gathering at Woodstock in 1969 occurred right during the Hong Kong flu pandemic. No precautions taken.
Woodstock happened in August 1969.
The Hong Kong Flu made it to the US in September 1969
In September 1968, the flu reached India,[22] northern Australia,[23] Thailand,[24] and Europe. The same month, the virus entered the United States and was carried by troops returning from the Vietnam War, but it did not become widespread in the country until December 1968.
The Hong Kong flu, also known as the 1968 flu pandemic, was a flu pandemic that occurred in 1968 and 1969 and which killed between one and four million people globally. It is among the deadliest pandemics in history, and was...