It was the 60s when our generation was shaking off the shackles of conformity and finding voice through music, politics, expressive fashions. before the war, what was before the war? The great depression and dust bowls in the USA, mass unemployment in the UK, the rise of fascism in Europe. Then came the war, huge loss of life and suffering. After that came peace, a new optimistic politics, high unemployment and a desire to shake off all the bad things that went before. the baby boomers were perhaps the luckiest generation in history.
It was the 60s when our generation was shaking off the shackles of conformity and finding voice through music, politics, expressive fashions. before the war, what was before the war? The great depression and dust bowls in the USA, mass unemployment in the UK, the rise of fascism in Europe. Then came the war, huge loss of life and suffering. After that came peace, a new optimistic politics, high unemployment and a desire to shake off all the bad things that went before. the baby boomers were perhaps the luckiest generation in history.