Albania
All gone to look for ….
’Let us be friends, we’ll marry our fortunes together’
’I’ve got some real estate here in my hand’
So we bought a pack of pencils and Mrs. Wagner pies
And walked off to look for strawberries
’Kathy,’ I said as we boarded a bus in Pittsburgh
’Michigan seems like a nightmare to me now’
It took me four weeks to hitchhike from Saginaw
I’ve gone to look for Albania
Laughing on the bus playing games with the driver
She said the man in the gabardine hat was a spy
I said, ’Be careful his bowtie is really a microphone’
’Toss me a book, I think there’s one in my raincoat’
’We read the last one an hour ago’
So I looked at the scenery, she read her newspaper
And the eagle rose over an open field.
’Kathy, I’m lost,’ I said, though I guessed she was sleeping
I’m empty and aching and I don’t know anything
Counting the trucks on the New Jersey turnpike
They’ve all gone to look for excuses
All gone to look for Albania
All gone to look for Albania
What good things did the USA do for the world in the twentieth century?
“a certain innocence was dying”
Any bad things? MLK, RFK,
Compare France and the U.S. in the sixies.The U.S. had Vietnam, protest singers and the summer of love, France had May 1968 and the dream of revolution.
“The events have profoundly shaped French politics, labor relations, and cultural life, leaving a lasting legacy of radical thought and activism.
After World War II, France underwent rapid modernization, economic growth, and urbanization, leading to increased social tensions. (The period from 1945 to 1975 is known as the Trente Glorieuses, the "Thirty Glorious Years", but it was also a time of exacerbated inequalities and alienation, particularly among students and young workers.) By the late 1960s, France's university system was struggling to accommodate a growing student population, and the rigid structure of academia frustrated students amid a broader discontent with conservative social norms. Inspired by countercultural, anti-imperialist, Marxist, and anarchist ideologies, students increasingly viewed themselves as part of a revolutionary struggle against capitalism and authoritarianism.
films about Vietnam
https://www.timeout.com/film/best-vietnam-war-movies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Vietnam_War_films
Books about Vietnam
songs Born in the USA
Why did Vietnam leave such a scar on the American psyche?
a certain naivety had died?