Good word? OMG ashton and I agree?
It waren't no universal 'era of everyone wantin Peace'.
But as Silverlock points out somewhere around this thread: the 'peace marches' engaged hundreds of thousands: actually off dead asses and marching.
Imagine-away these citizen-participants of every stripe of politics, religion, class yada yada -- as some few scruffy stereotypes? and you have got it about as Wrong as 'wrong' can get. Like most such strife:
Accept no substitutes - read lots about it, if you weren't there to live it: slogans won't cut it.
Communication was so.. provincialized? homogenized by an insouciant meeja of similar ilk as today? ___? the 'oasis' was perhaps, that of a cohesive group: those who actually dedicated say, several hours every day towards some specific local aim, roughly related to the rubric 'peace' - and who came to recognize the "steady workers" and not the periodic drop-ins of little earnestness.
As with most collections of homo-saps. Many wish to bask in the aura, but would rather golf.. the other 95% of the time.
Ashton
who doesn't pass the above 'participatory test', either. I highly regard those who did. That 'peace action' ended Vietnam as only a handful of politicos were willing to dare. Until it became mandatory - via *large numbers* in motion. And pissed.
