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The Beginning of the End |
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1969 started around 1955 and it was all over by 1973.
If I have to
explain that, then "you weren't there", as they say.
Just look
up Ginsberg, the Route 66 guy, Jack Kerouac , the Naked lunch guy,
William S. Burroughs, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and you'll
be on the path to enlightenment.
I've picked 1969
because it was the pinnacle of a social revolution that we have not
seen the likes of since. The only thing remarkable about today's youth
is that they are in all the adverts for the 'cool' stuff. Nothing like
diverting attention away from your commitment to the human species
when you can just press a button and 'like' something. No true
investment there. IMHO...
As
will happen with economies based on consumerism, Madison Avenue took
the 60's mantra of 'don't trust anyone over 30' to a new level
of branding. When they realised the potential of the youth market in the 60's, well, that's
when the social enlightenment part of the revolution went down-hill.
No more making you're own tie-dye.
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It's 1958 and N + D = PEACE
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(You gotta learn Semaphore
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NUCLEAR
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Just 13 years earlier (1945)
the Atomic Bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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By
1955 the U.S and the Soviet Union
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And you wondered what all the fear was
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...some people had just had
enough of the destructive madness |
In
1957 Bertrand Russell joined with Albert Einstein to organise a conference of
Nobel Prize winners in Pugwash, Nova Scotia which called for the destruction of Nuclear Weapons.
The conference included scientists from both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. Winston
Churchill had come up with the phrase 'Iron Curtain' in a speech given March
5, 1946. Never mind that Russia, had lost 12 million people fighting
with the Allies for the 'good fight'. The old power struggles were still
there.
It was Churchill's speech, which he
titled "The Sinews of Peace," that changed the way the democratic West
viewed the Communist East, and created what was known as the 'cold war'.
But...I'm taking you back in time and we need to move forward.
You can start to see why history is important. A few words can change everything...
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It's
1958
and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
has a new logo...
You see, having an atomic bomb was not
enough in the minds of certain power hungry countries. So there was a
race to see who could build a better bomb.
'We can blow more of you
up' was the motto of the day...
Well, they did it.
The
hydrogen bomb is 1000 times more potent than an atomic bomb. Britain
fired their first one in 1957. The year I was born.
John Lennon was 18.
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