Trading Peace For Profits :: essays research papers

     As the rule book says To everything there is a season, a time for every purpose under(a) Heaven. Woodstock 1969, it was a time for neck ... and hate. In a demesne with raceriots and the Vietnam war a single dove perched on a guitar neck metamorphosed the States for ever and brought a new light to the macrocosm in just 72 hours. Dubbed three days of repose and eff the legacy of Woodstock spawned a sequel...Woodstock 1999. To go into all the differences between Woodstock 69 and Woodstock 99 is a task that couldnt be completed by Woodstock 2004(which is already in the works). From psychedelic fields to Wall Street materialistic movers and shakers of the 1980s and 90s are our parents really the long hairs of love and peace , half stoned music lovers of the sixties? Whendid it all change when did they change? Woodstock and what happened there after presents the changes in the views of society in a microcosm. The love and peace in 69 to a aggressive show o f teenaged angst in 99 what has the legacy of Woodstock really been Free love and common sharing to the hyper merchandising and materialism Idealism to Disillusionment. How we have changed...can we ever experience our way back to the garden?      In comparing these two circumstance one must realize the decades which separates them and more importantly what has taken nursing home in the world since 1969. The people who were in attendance in 69. were not part of the instant access world. computers were for scientist not a tool for spanning the ball to speak about everything from the latest music to sex with your cyber friends in Australia. the States was the still unquestionable the champions of the world coming out of World warfare II and Korea. Every child could look forward to doing as tumefy or better than his or her parents. In other words America was riding high in a golden age with plainly one major pitfall Vietnam. How does a generation tell the c lose generation of warrior that they dont want to fight. The war started by the sometime(a) generation is not their war. They ban in concert or they come together in what can only be described as a happening the proportions of which no one could have predicted. The peaceful shock waves of which were hear around the world, the harmony and love of which we have been trying to recapture since.