Hm...well, this is all for the ages and the reasonable people now, of course, but the thing I remember, behind the anger, is the fear (which come from the same well). As Arlo sang back then,"They're beating you up in Chicago/They're picking you up on the coast/They're knocking you off in Ohio/They like sending you to war the most..." Who knows why people thought they merited that sort of persecuted vision, but youth will always have a strong element of loneliness, which includes a fear of punishment. People thought they could be messed with in a very profound way by the Establishment. As Melville said,"What like a bullet can undeceive."