Yeah, those days won't be comin' back around in any of our life times...

The 60s (which really didn't end until the mid 70s) was it's own time and it scared "the establishment" to death and since there has been a a change of culture that has been pushed that is not at all grassroots but corporate... The propaganda has been turned up... The selling and pushing of fear has been turned up... People are not quite as ready to step to the plate as they once were...

Maybe another dumbass war will get 'um going, I donno... No matter, nothin' is worth another dumbass war... We're kinda full of dumbass wars for a while...

I was, however, involved in almost all of the anti-war protests in DC during the Bush mad-dash-to-Iraq days and there were kids there who were very much like kids I marched with in the 60's... That wa encouraging... Maybe, just maybe, there is a counter-culture large enough to make a splash... I'd like to think so...

One thing is fir sure is that of the musicans that best exemplified the counter-culture, John (with Yoko) was da' man (with da' woman...)

What a loss... Seems that the best and the brightest of that era were all taken out... The world could use another John Lennon right about now but none out there as far as I can see...

I mean, good folkie protest song writers like Jim Page but people don't know Jim Page... They knew John Lennon and they either respected him or hated him but they knew him...

Sorry, those days are gone...

B~