Woodstock Mikhail Karpich
On display at Woodstock were radical ideas, notions of sexuality, ways of living, society, and of course-music. In the midst of all these were aspects of “normalicity” and things that go on in everyday life. Some of the “normal” aspects of teenage/young adult life is to be a little rebellious and make a stand against the older generation. What was surprising, however, is the fact that these young adults came together and broke away and established aspirations and conventions (pg262 A. Wolfe). “Being a 1960’s youth was dangerous for those U.S. Youth who resisted their elders call to kill in a war youth did not support,” article, on the enduring, popularity of Cream’s ‘sunshine of your love’: Sonic synecdoche of the ‘psychedelic 60s,’ by A. Wolfe (pg262). They were not willing to do what their elders wanted them to do but, wanted their say to be just as important as theirs. They were sent to fight, kill, and die for unclear reasons and motives. “If that fight was flawed, then, so too was the nation that stood behind it,” according to the book Vietnam (pg.317). The young adults caught on fairly quickly to the system. They were not sure of the war in Vietnam and why we were there? The war was flawed and the nation backing it. These young adults stood up against the government in an attempt to bring about a change. The young adults of the older generation were struggling to define themselves (pg.39 ‘blame it on the sixties’). “The sixties were about the freedom to question and arrive at answers and still question more…” (pg.44 ‘blame it on the sixties’). The young adults were in search of answers of why the things that were taking place being taken? Because the government and the elders were in control it was understandable why the young adults rebelled against them.