bodhi tree swaying

Thanks to William Harryman at Integral Options Café I can now finally place myself in one of those hip generational categories. I was born in 1961 (same year as Obama) and while I was definitely influenced by the protests and counter-culture of the hippies I was way too young to actually participate in any of that stuff and never felt I belonged in the baby Boomer generation.

I grew up with the ideas that sex before marriage was OK and that equality was to be striven for, but sex before marriage was by then so common that it wasn’t rebellious but status quo, and equality was already being legislated into existence in the form of sex and racial discrimination legislation. Again, these things were becoming part of the established way of doing things.

I wasn’t in rebellion against the boomers and so …