Don't Blame the Hippies for What Everyone Was Doing

And Phil Robertson, I love ya man, but, what a cheap applause line. (Did not watch, just read about it.) No, you indecently long-haired, bearded old goat, you can't blame the "hippies" for what generations before and after the "hippies" (that tiny, short-lived clique of longhairs, much less their multitude of poor imitators, wannabes, and like-a-look degenerates) worked so hard to accomplish. My parents' generation was full of "Playboy" wantonness and the "liberalization" of "progressive" sexual culture (actually regression to immoral behaviors) was practiced aplenty in suburbia before Haight-Ashbury. One could even reach back to the "roaring twenties" for the origins of the popularization of immorality.

Having myself been suckered in badly by the "sexual revolution," with a consequent garage full of regrets (mostly about how women were treated), I think it's important that the true perpetrators of the debauchery get the blame. Regressives, Communists, and of course their diabolical inspiration are a much broader coalition than just hippies.

Okay, rant mode off. Maybe I can watch Phil now.