REBELLIOUS YOUTH | 2005-10-24
I was a college professor in the 1960s. That was when the Love Generation was making calls to the parents of guys in Vietnam saying they were the Department of Defense and falsely informing them that their son had been killed in action.
Al Capp was a New York liberal Jew who did the Lil Abner cartoons. That is, as he said, he was a standard liberal Jew until he made fun of the Love Generation.
Capp made fun of the John Birch Society, the Klan, Big Business, all the standard things. He said he got some hate mail for it.
But then he made fun of the anti-Vietnam protestors, the Love Generation.
He made it clear that he was not joking when he said that he didn't know what hate was until he got it from the Love Generation.
Hate mail from the Love Generation poured in. Capp said he got more attack mail in one week than he had gotten in his whole career before. He said each letter made the Klan look like pussycats. Capp said that the language in those letters would embarrass a Harlem pimp.
Capp abruptly became a conservative.
So we all know that the Love Generation was not about love.
There was another claim the Love Generation made besides, "We're all about Love."
They also said they were Rebellious Youth.
They weren't that young, but we'll that for another article.
Right now let's concentrate on the claim that 1960s "campus radicals" were "Rebellious."
Remember, I was younger than many of the students I taught. If you don't think I was rebellious, my FBI file would contradict you.
During the 1960s I would like to have yelled at the stlf-styled radicals:
REBELLIOUS!? You're the most obedient bunch of spoiled brats I've ever seen!
Here was their "radical" program:
1) All money should be taken away from the military and given to professors to spend on social programs;
2) Taxes should be vastly increased to give to social science professors more money to spend on their pet social programs;
2) All policy on so-called criminals, who are actually victims of society, should be turned over to criminologists, like our sociology professors told us;
3) The economy should run entirely by professors who will plan the whole thing;
4) Any money or power left over should go into reparations to minority groups, which will be distributed the way our liberal professors tell us it should.
That was the college student radicals idea of rebellion.
Listen, gang, the ancient Pharoahs wished that Egyptians would worship every word they said the way those so-called radicals worshipped what their professors told them.