Back Talk

It occurs to me that we’ve experienced more than a little corruption of our culture; we have witnessed a cultural revolution that started during the 1960’s. A revolution every bit as world changing as two other revolutions during that same decade: Chairman Mao and the gang of four communist cultural revolution in China and Iran’s cultural revolution when Jimma Carter refused to support the Shah, the Islamic extremists and mullahs took control, and expunged all western and non-Muslim influences in their country, Of course, in doing so, Iran stepped back in time a few hundred years. What happened to start the American cultural corruption that became a true revolution? In the 1960’s, a bunch of posturing middle class college kids, with inspiration from leftist professors, full of restless energy and ready and willing to demonstrate for just about anything, used the anti-war movement excuse to spearhead the uprising and turn college campuses into raging riots. They stormed administration buildings, burned, and vandalized, but they got America’s attention. With the help of the liberal, herd-like press, they forced our weak kneed Congress to withhold support for the troops; then we dropped support for the South Viet, denying them the ability to continue the fight. After all, Walter Cronkite pronounced on the evening news that the war was lost. The Communists soon overran South Vietnamm, there was mass killing, and we have a blight on our collective soul to this day. The make love not war, free-love, do whatever feels good, absence of moral or ethical absolutes generation changed America forever.