This shit with the latest school shooting is pissing me off.
After everything spree shooting there's talk about gun control.
This time however the right is taking the moral high ground and claiming that's it's just wrong to bring it up so soon. While I can understand where they're coming from, I call bullshit.
If the perpetrator was brown these same people would be up in arms over border control.
So no. You don't get to play the moral high ground card here.
The counterculture types of the sixties were weird, but they were still at heart a product of their upbringing. They consciously rejected a lot of the stuffy discipline imposed on them by their parents, but had enough moral foundation that the peace and love commune thing kinda worked. Things fell apart, I think, when that generation (including the ones outside hippie culture but were strongly sympathetic) had children of their own; the movement was not well-equipped to raise kids with much sense of self-control or responsibility.
Not completely out of the ball park. But also a generalization (because you're talking about me - LOL). The counterculture crowd was what we call the 'elitists' today. Most of whom went on to education or the media, where they were a big part of influencing a new generation. Sadly, the vast majority of us sat by silently allowing this to happen, but we lived our lives and raised our kids with decent values, and again, the majority still have those today. Just as in the 60s, it's the squeaky wheels that get the grease today. I don't think the younger generation is any different now, there are a lot of good kids and younger adults out there, many more than we give credit, that haven't bought into the craziness.
Yes, what cultural philosophies took root in the sixties that could have led to this? /s