Blue Truck, Red State: Why I Hate The Sixties

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Why I Hate The Sixties

First broadcast on BBC Bristol in 2004.

"In the 1960's, we chose the wrong future - and we're still living with that."

Do you agree or disagree? Discuss.

8 comments:

Tim said...: 1. I enjoyed the sixties. I became adult, I became educated, I realised I was gay.

2. Can we all please stop worrying about past decisions and past lifestyles?
We did what we did, there's no use in crying over spilt milk! Get over it!

3. Perhaps our attention and energy would be better directed to solving todays problems now.
Not saying we did the wrong thing come 2070!; September 2, 2015 at 11:12 AM
Davis said...: I miss the 60s. Yes there were loads of problems, issues that were never addressed, and nearly constant changes (i'm kind of allergic to changes myself) - but it was also a time of dreaming big dreams.; September 2, 2015 at 1:32 PM
Tim said...: Well Russ, don't leave us in suspense! What are your thoughts?; September 3, 2015 at 10:31 AM
Russ Manley said...: Actually I quite agreed with most of the observations made in the film. Unlike you damn hippies! Grin.; September 4, 2015 at 12:24 AM
Tim said...: Like squaresville man, chill out, and pass the weed!

Davis, I think Russ would have been happier in the 1860's, nearer his DOB!; September 4, 2015 at 5:02 PM
Russ Manley said...: A century off as usual - my day and time was the 1760's, when the Empire was at its peak, America was the jewel in the crown, and the riff-raff knew their place.

And that's enough out of you - bloody Socialist!

Grin.; September 4, 2015 at 7:44 PM
Davis said...: Glad to know there are '60s that Russ approves of anyway.

Seriously the late 60s don't hold an appeal for me, it was the first half of the decade to I still find myself nostalgic for.; September 5, 2015 at 9:34 AM
Frank said...: Don't have time to watch the video, but to quote an old 60's popular radio soliloquy: "And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." Now, pass the medical marijuana.; September 6, 2015 at 7:45 AM

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu