Aging Baby Boomers Bring Drug Habits Into Middle Age

At last! An article that speaks to what I've been thinking for years. Having lived in San Francisco in the 70s, I cannot believe that the Flower Power crowd has changed as they matured. Queen Pelosi and Senator Feinstein are examples – along with our current Ruler-in-Chief. Pot-smoking, LSD-dropping youth just don't change their ways that easy and are in open display in the liberal ranks of the Democrat Party.

Read more @ http://americanpowerblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/aging-baby-boomers-bring-drug-habits.html with a link to the WSJ piece.

 

Ok, so, what is the argument here?

 

That ALL baby boomers are druggies because OP "believes" something....

 

Wow man, like far out dude...you just blew my mind bro.

 

No argument.

Just an OPINION piece that indicates that the Flower Children of the Love-In days have grown older - but haven't changed their outlooks on drugs and all the rest of that culture.

 

That is a good thing.

 

well thank god that! would that there were more 'ageing hippies' in the world to remind us of the error of our profligate, brainless ways.

 

LOLOL... and there was no abuse of drugs or bootleg before the 1960s?

 

Nope, no gays either, and everyone who had a baby was married, there were no divorces, no abortions, wives and girlfriends weren't beaten or killed....and then WE came along and we ALL did drugs and made whoopee and had fun sex, never held a job and ruined the world .......it was a blast !!!

 

Weren't cocaine and opium a problem in the 20s and 30s?

 

Yup. in the 1720's and 30's , the 1820's and 30's , the 1920's and 30's....but they didn't ruin the world until us baby boomers and hippy freaks got ahold of them.....

 

That Baby Boomers think old age is middle aged apparently.

 

Actually, a great deal of intellectuals used heavy drugs like heroin, opium, and cocaine well before - and during - Prohibition. If one does a search from some of the leading artists, musicians, composers, playwrights, and others, one discovers their addictions.

Where do you think the author of Alice in Wonderland got so many of his weird ideas?

My foster father was a musician working in Tin Pan Alley in the 20's and 30's and told me how many musicians needed to get High in order to be at their best.

 

Those drugs were also used in small towns all across the US...

 

That's right, we haven't changed. In college I liberally indulged doing drugs while maintaining my 4.0 gpa. In my roughly 45 year professional career I liberally indulged in drug usage while being a top performer often earning a six-digit income. Now that I'm (semi) retired I've started a new company to provide jobs to others because I'm an over-achiever not able to 'not to anything creative' which is what retirement implies and I'm going to keep doing drugs.

Why would I want to change that which has been successful my entire lifetime?

 

Actually, the 20's were considerably more naughty than the 60's. They were the first generation to really celebrate being young, and they really went to town on it. Gawd love 'em. Later incarnations of youth culture were simply carrying on the tradition, after a couple of decades of hiatus for a depression and a war

 

In fact many of them got their start in the old west. Catalogs used to bill hashish candies as "fun for the whole family". Every bit of snake oil ever sold had either laudnum or cocaine in it (preferably both... for your health you understand)

 

indeed, while the 1920's did the youth culture thing in reaction a long century of Victorian mores, earlier generations indulged in all sorts of fun and games.

 

Drugs were one part of the culture these people introduced.
Illegitimacy and abortions, non-marriage sexual relationships, No Fault Divorce, communism, and Welfare for single mothers were part of this Feminist Revolt, too.

 

You're sure?? In PF I've seen posters who think that before 1965 there were no abortions, every pregnant woman was married (as she should be ) NO one had extra-marital sex and no one divorced.......really, I've seen the posts....


They refuse to believe that humans have acted like humans since they started out as humans.....

 

Yep,...
The '20 were "fun" too, which was followed by the Great Depression...

America almost went Communist then, the bank failures stopped loans to Germany which was also experiencing a great Feminist Upheaval at the same time.
This made the society ready for a patriarch, a national Father figure which Hitler.
That made WWII a way out for America which otherwise would have have a major revolution itself.

 

But these people, like the Gays and the easy women we now see everywhere as sexually available remained hidden from the younger generation and the things they did were not talked about or mention in any way.
The CULTURE was protective if the kids.

Today, the kids are born illegitimately to Welfare receiving single mothers who get $45,000 yearly in benefits and fill half the baby carriages now.

 

Yes, bless em. What with having only been alive for a wee while, and buying into the PR on such things, some of our friends believe that 1959 was the last gasp of 'proper'. A stern avoidance of non-biblical history will support this view, too.

That is, the same secular history which informs us that prior to this magical turning point, we were exactly as naughty as we are now, we just wore different clothes. Actually, we were much naughtier, but that will never wash with the likes of Dave. It's only ever 'now' (or the very recent past) which is demonised, because the actual past isn't here to stand up and proclaim its entirely human frailties. This allows Dave to pretend it was all virginal brides and tea at the Vicarage, before the hippies unshackled their hair and their genitals.

The great (and quite delicious) irony is that that most stitched up of eras and peoples, the Victorians, just hid their humanity better. They were certainly no better, and some would argue considerably worse, than we are today. This was the era of deep insanity when it came to things of the flesh and the demon drink etc. The hiding of table and piano legs lest men become aroused, temperance, etc etc. All the while producing such delights as rampant closeted alcoholism, child slave labour, unbridled vice in cities, and Jack the Ripper.

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Fantastic! You've managed to blame the depression on flappers and jazz

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you have to be kidding, Dave. PROTECTIVE of kids?

kids have never been as protected as they are now. it's (*)(*)(*)(*)ing paradise for kids today, compared to what they've had to endure in the past.

you've lost the plot, good sir.

 

revolt .... snorffles

actually, it's not such a bad idea. I'm sure many thinking women of earlier generations were revolted by the awful double standards and sexism inherent in their culture.

 

So much baloney , so little thought.


There was no culture protective of kids, some were always abused, used for sex, sold for sex, beaten, worked to death, .....(at least now they have child labor laws)....naïve and ignorant to think otherwise.


Oh, and there are no baby carriages.