Yesterday I saw on tv demonstrations in America against the war in Iraq and they said that the slogan of demonstrations is the same like one in the sixties when people demonstrated against war in Vietnam...so i asked myself and i ask you is it possible to repeat the sixties? maybe not like it was then but, something like that...do you think people are capable to do that? to fight for their rights...what would you do?
If history has taught us anything, it's that it can most definitely repeat itself. People have been protesting for their rights for centuries, and in our day and age anything is possible - even another world war, or another Hitler.
i was supposed to go..had bus tickets and everything.. couldn't because of the parents saying my math grade was shit. IT WAS A D! I WASN'T FAILING! but i watched all the stuff on tv that i could about it. man, i was so bummed when i couldn't go.. fuck that. i think you know where i stand on this issue. =]
I was at the protest in D.C. on Saturday... It was pretty cool (and extremely cold). It sucks that you couldn't go, thehippie/Lizzie. A lot of people couldn't make it to the protest because of bad weather all across the country... Anyways, I'm not a very optimistic person, so I don't think the sixties will happen again. I think a lot of people (at least in America) are too apathetic and lazy to do much of the things that people did in the sixties. We prefer to stay at home and complain about things, rather than actually getting out and trying to change things. Some of the ideas from the sixties will survive forever, but no, I don't think the sixties as a whole will happen again.
I think in a way, history is in a loop. We we're prittey optimistic in the early 90's after the fall of the USSR that world peace was the next step, the came 9/11... we had the same feeling after WWII... WWI... 1900... ... .. . Frankly, history does in a way repeat itself, it's when something knokcs something outta orbit it gets interesting
my friends parents took me and 2 friends down to the march on washington on saturday. it was amazing and very inspiring. speaking of history repeating itself, our national debt is dramatically increasing and they are just leaving it for the next president and congress to deal with. the same thing happened in france, and it brought with it the beginning of the french revolution. is a new american revolution in order? i believe it will definitly come within the next 100 years.
The French Revolution was caused also by mass unemployment and high bread prices, which made the economy of France collapsed, and also a food scarcity. If a revolution does arrise, which it most likely will, it could also be a negative revolution that do not coincide with our beliefs: It could be a Nazi revolution, as World War II in Germany showed us. Also, the French Revolution had millions of bloodshed.
there are similarities and differences and there is both good and bad among both of them. the sixties though weren't created by looking backwards but toward the future. and i think that's what we need to do now. and by looking toward the future, i mean in the sense and way we were then too. not in the sense of the kind of future the neocons want to impose on us. i really believe the choice we face is ecotopia or anialation. and that either way it's up to us, more then any idiology or belief. although a great deal of both tend more toward the latter then the former. and of course that's precisely what we need to be doing something about. not because of how wonderful or awful any of them are in and of themselves, which may also be true and a consideration. this war bussiness and the motivations behind it are just totaly insane and people everywhere do have the right idea to oppose it. and one of those motivations behind it just might be, even as it was the last time arround, to keep us devided and from focusing on the real needs and realities facing the survival of our human species. =^^= .../\...
