A Comment About

Viewing the 1960s From My 60s

April 13, 2008 - 1:29 am - by Burt Prelutsky
Teri Pittman
2008-04-14 16:25:37

I get so tired of this idea that boomers were the most pampered generation ever. Perhaps it’s because I was raised by a single mom back when that was uncommon. Frankly, the whole boomer thing was a marketing image. There was a certain amount of shared interests but honestly, not everyone was part of it. If I hadn’t been exposed to California in the 60s, I likely wouldn’t have been part of it either. There are a lot of us that woke up to the lies we were fed in those days. We’ve got a few years on us now. It’s going to be tough to turn things around, but it’s not too late if we work together. We can do that if folks will just stop bashing us for the decade we were born into.