1964 - 1984 AWAKENING A SLEEPING GIANT

AWAKEN  - 1964 - 1984

TIMELINE of the
COUNTERCULTURE 

CONSCIOUSNESS

GENERATION

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THIS GENERATION

“…began with urban riots and campus fury, swelled alongside the Vietnam War protests and rebellious counter-culture. It gave rise to feminist, environmental and black power movements and to steep rise in violent crime and family breakup. After the fury peaked with Watergate (in 1974), passions turned inward toward New Age lifestyles and spiritual rebirth. The mood expired during Reagan’s upbeat reelection campaign, as one time hippies reached their yuppie chrysalis.”^[1]

COMMENTARIES INCLUDE

1960s – Awakening, “1964 brought the opening skirmishes of several new movements whose full meaning would be revealed over the next two decades.”

1970 – Kent State Shootings, Wikipedia – “Shootings of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces.”

1970 – “FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH”, Buffalo Springfield Lyrics - There's “Something happening here, What it is ain't exactly clear

There's a man with a gun over there, Telling me I got to beware.”`

1970s – FUNDAMENTALISM:  The Major Trend of Religious Right Activists – “Making History Right Again”, Anti-Defamation League, “The New Right was sparked by young conservative strategists dissatisfied with the array of issues that engaged activist Christians.”

1971 – The Pentagon Papers – “Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the report  was initially charged with conspiracy, espionage, and theft of government property, but the charges were later dismissed after prosecutors investigating the Watergate scandal discovered that the staff members in the Nixon White House had ordered the so-called White House Plumbers to engage in unlawful efforts to discredit Ellsberg.^[5]

1971 – The State Of Texas is #1 – Molly Ivins – “The state of Texas is Number One among the 50 states in oil production. It is Number One in gas production, Number One in cattle, and Number One in cotton. … In 1969, we were Number One in infectious syphilis, but have since fallen to a mere fourteenth.”

1975 – The Redesign of The Military As Business – “Robert McNamara reacted to the fall of Vietnam and the loss of the war like any excellent businessman, he saw that war needed a re-design if war itself. Arms production has become the leading export business for ‘irregular wars’ which pop up around the world.”

1975 – PTSD And Vietnam, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, “Thus, the long-term legacy of the Vietnam War upon American society is not just hundreds of thousands of troubled veterans, it is also hundreds of thousands of troubled marriages impacting women, children and future generations.”

1983 (and longer) REAL Witch Hunts, Fake News And Satanic Cult Scares – “Untruthfulness And Profit: The Basic Flaw In Contemporary News Organizations ‘Competitive Zeal’ to Sell Papers”

1980s Ron and Nancy – “Ron and Nancy. Let's face it, they were the 80s. Okay, so his mind is mired somewhere in the dawn of social Darwinism and she is a brittle, shallow woman obsessed with appearances, but then, it was that kind of decade, wasn't it?”

1984 – Bophal India, Geographical Reality,  “The CEO of Union Carbide flew in to (Bophal) to sympathize. He was arrested. He was horrified that the profession of manager could be confused with that of ethical responsibilities for the actions of the corporation.”

1984 – Iran – Contra, CIA Crack Cocaine Smuggling - The Reagan administration hired staff to publicize the emergence of crack cocaine in 1985 as part of a strategic effort to build public and legislative for the war (on drugs). The media campaign was an extraordinary success. Almost overnight, the media was saturated with images of black “crack whores,” “crack dealers,” and “crack babies” - images that seemed to confirm the worst negative racial stereotypes about impoverished inner-city residents. The media bonanza surrounding the “new demon drug” helped catapult the War on Drugs to an actual war.

Disinformation Campaigns – “The word disinformation did not appear in English dictionaries until the late-1980s.^[1][2] English use increased in 1986, after revelations that the Reagan Administration engaged in disinformation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.^[9] By 1990 it was pervasive in U.S. politics;^[10] and by 2001 referred generally to lying and propaganda.^[11][12]”