8.02.2007

Boomerbummerfucker.....

So, if you haven't figured out, it's the 40th anniversary of the "Summer of Love", so get out your tie-dyed shirt (purchased 1991), patched bellbottoms (purchased 2002) or hippy skirt (purchased 1989) and feel the groovy love vibrations maaaaannnn...because the mayor of San Francisco has issued a proclamation and there's going to be a free concert in Golden Gate Park and everyone will get together, hug, and change the world all over again. At least that's what the organizers of the concert say. And I call Bull Shit.

First, let me quote a few bits of their "proclamation",
"Then one summer it happened! "We Were Everywhere". The pureness of thought exploded exponentially and there were millions of us. The event, this historical moment which included most of 1967, became known as the "Summer of Love""
Great. Don't break your arm patting yourself on the back or anything, but good job on recognizing that there were other people like you...and good job to the media for pointing it out to you.

"During this period the Peace Movement was born with the Human Be-Ins in San Francisco and the Love-Ins in New York.(um no, there've been pacifists being thrown in jail since at least WW1) Anti-war demonstrations occured everywhere and college campuses erupted with thousands of people refusing the draft (in all acuality they were anti-draft demonstrations - but eventually non-students joined in) This startled the government (for the last time)presidents were impeached (well, president), wars were stopped (eventually), and an entire generation stood up and said "Hell No"" (except Bush, Cheney, and all the current fucktards in this adminstration who went to college then too)

"Social change was occuring and continued on multiple levals. Out of this orderly chaos came the "Movements": The Free Speech Movement (so I can say fuck on an adult radio show?), Free Love Movement (oh, prostitution is legal?), the Farm Workers Movement (its so easy & safe now!), the Women's Movement (but no abortions, girls), the Gay Rights Movement (unless you want to be married), the Environmental Movement (yay! global warming!), the Ecology Movement (doesn't this fit in the environment or visa versa?), the Animal Rights Movement (terrorists!), the Sexual Revolution (but no condoms in schools or prisons!), the Spritual Movement (as an athiest I am unqualified to comment on this one), the Student Movement (yeah, that went far), the Civil Rights Movement (which started in 1955), and the Anti-War Movement (see above)."

"The message was clear the world was uniting behind one pricipal and thought - LOVE! and its affirmation of PEACE, COMPASSION, and UNDERSTANDING. The word was brought forth by musicians such as Peter Paul and Mary, The Mamas and Papas, Donovan, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane and then carried on by many of the English Musicians like Eric Clapton (histories greatest monster - but more on that in another post), the Beatles (didn't the Beatles come along pretty early?) and Rolling Stones.(Wasn't Donovan English?)

Because of this free thinking environment (wasn't Dylan booed for his experimentation?) a renassance of gifted genius' occurred with the likes of John Coltrane(?), Miles Davis(?), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison (oh I barfed in my mouth a little). New concepts and inventions touched every segment of society. The transistor, the calculator, the computer and the internet all had their inception in the 1960's(yeah, thanks to the unmentioned LSD - I forgot, drugs are bad). A whole new creative sector of the economy developed within, took hold and became Silicone Valley. (awesome!) The international community was in awe (I guess humility wasn't big in the 60's)of this explosion of creativity, even Olympic athletes showed their solidarity by uniting with the winds of change (or realised that black people are just that, people). All this started with a simple word, a simple thought - LOVE! and a generation of free thinking people willing to stand up and be counted and their willingness to be different." ORLY?

Well, let me just brush the vomit taste out of my mouth....aaaahhhh minty fresh!

So, Really?Nothing good has happened since 1967, no good art, music, movements or anything, eh? Nothing continued forward, ended or changed since 1967, which is, according to the Boomers, the pinnacle of human acheivement. Thanks, I've had that line of crap shoved up my ass for about 30 years now and as far as I can tell, 1967 was the START of the FUCKERY that is TODAY. But hey, keep telling the world how great you and yours were, and the sheeple will nod their heads in agreement, because they weren't there and they don't know any better.

You know what's better than going forward? Spinningyour wheels in your glorious past, which had NOTHING to do with the future. Oh no, what really must have happend was in 1967 everyone was happy and free for a couple years, and then everyone was replaced by greedy, pre-yuppie pod people whose only god is Money. Yeah, that must be it, certianly those beautiful people with flowers in their hair wouldn't sell out their glorious vision of the future and their children for a little bit of filthy lucre, right?

WRONG! I'm here as a maligned member of Generation X to say "thanks a fucking lot for fucking nothing." You had the world, you had the vision, and you had just about everyone behind you. Instead, you discovered coke, suits, money, designers, fashion, cars and more money and just shoved your collective turgid member up the ass of the rest of the world...for money...without even the courtisy of spitting on it first. Sold out your kids, grandkids and everyone after them. Fucked the "third world" royally in your hunt for the almighty profit margin. Screwed the environment and locally owned business with your predatory business models...but Hey Dennis Hopper has a great retirement plan for you! Because you're the BEST generation, you discovered EVERYTHING, and were the BIGGEST revolutionaries in the whole history of the world and you deserve LOVE from everyone who isn't you.