It’s been 40 years since Woodstock. Many of those half a million attendees are now nearing retirement, i.e. turning off the engine and letting it slide into the deck. There will be a lot of “see me, tweet me” (touch deprivation, not to mention social isolation) because as statistics show,
many retired CIA employees died within their first year of retirement.
But these baby boomers are different, I guarantee, despite the “Muzak” (elevator speech given ways to elevator music) their predecessors are leaving behind ( My Way, in pure orchestra ?)
Their hair might not be there due to work place decency, but in private, I am sure the music lives on.
Many will return to their first love of summer 69: community, ecology, and respect for others, not the excessive
pursuit of things (how many TV’s must one have in one’s life time? what about the unusable plastic inside the old TV’s?
Of course they ship them to developing countries, where the bottom 1 Billion live).
Yesterday must be a day in court: first The Lower Manhattan court, then the Supreme court not to mention Encino court (Madoff, White Haven fire fighters and Michael Jackson’s children custody battle).
By the time the dust settled on the next Supreme Court nominee, we will have been overfed with legalese, just as we
have with financial jargon i.e. CDO’s, securitization etc… Let’s take a break. It’s summer. Where are Seals & Crofts?
Summer Breeze…..Where is “sealed with a kiss”? As human, we are endowed with limitless ability to cope with circumstances, even harsh ones such as what have been coming down (H1N1, financial hardship, and climate change).
Already we see the next generation of students getting into wind technology in Oklahoma (News Hour).
Ask them about their wide open space, they see the future. Just as 40 years ago, if you asked the Woodstock organizers, what did they see in that wide open farm space. The reply: three days of Peace, Love and Music.
The Earth is yours. It’s up to you. See me, tweet me…..behind you, I see the million.
Thang Nguyen 555 