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NCMaureen's avatar

Thanks but no thanks Barbie. Conspicuous consumption repulses me. I see it all around me. Shop, shop, shop, buy, buy, buy, get it the same day on Amazon! It’s all so shallow, stuff doesn’t make you happy. I am old enough to remember that the “keeping up with the Jones” parents of the ‘50s gave us the hippies of the ‘60s who rejected their parent’s values and became a confused, lost generation.

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Terence G Gain's avatar

I also reject consumption. To me, less is more. The hippies rejected their parents and embraced drugs. I rejected them then and ever since.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

They were and are pathetic. How many of that generation still swoon for "Woodstock?" A celebration of fornication and defecation in a drug addled sea of slime and mud. How "elevating" and worthy of "celebration."

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bestuvall's avatar

LOL. I take it you did not attend. rock concerts were the staples of my college years. so much fun

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Take again. I saw more of the early 60s groups concerts, Beatles, Beach Boys etc. The later ones - more of the true "hippie vibe" groups - no thanks.

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