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In Reply to: The Devil's Advocate posted by Sara Cawley on May 14, 1998 at 00:18:23:

It is true. The sixties have been played up much more than other times of great change. Perhaps this is because it is so recent in our history and such a shock after the "innocence" of the fifties.

Can the sixties really be summed up in one decade, though? It holds so much more than just ten years of history. It was about new experiences and expanding horizons. about going out on a limb and just being. of taking pleasure in who you are as an individual instead of as a boy or girl, son or daughter. of being selfish, carefree, and testing societies longheld values, and creating your own.

the sixties in that perspective are nothing new. they have happened many times before. no society stays exactly the way it is forever. it would stagnate. change is extremely important. part of the sixties is alive in each of us, whether we actually lived during that particular decade or not. We are just able to pinpoint when the most substantial change took place (1960-1969), but we were always changing and evolving, hopefully towards something better.

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