Reddit reviews Berkeley in the Sixties

Those who were fighting for good causes.

I hated hippies when I was younger, but since I never understood them, I decided to research hippies when I grew older and it changed my perspective some. I tend to think of hippies as a continuation of the beatnik movement from the 50's, because that's when young college kids began standing up together and winning landmark court decisions. When JFK ran for President, he supported them, and they supported him in return, which is probably one reason why JFK is considered one of our best Presidents today.

I believe the hippie movement is often said to have officially began in 1964, with the free speech movement and its leaders, although the FSM was really just the culmination of events that had been ongoing for several years, imo. To quote Wikipedia on the subject:

> With the participation of thousands of students, the Free Speech Movement was the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s.[4] Students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left,[5] and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.

All the leaders of the FSM eventually began using drugs and lost their way, unfortunately. Reagan became Governor of California in '66 and made a name for himself in political circles by fighting them. There's a very good documentary on Amazon Prime called Berkeley in the Sixties. I watched it back in the 90's and it might explain all of the questions you have and more, because that seems to be the main point of the documentary.

you started well with things that can be proven to help. exercise, nature, psychotherapy if you're really lost. But the reason why you pay a psychotherapist to listen is that they're a professional and most people don't know how to help you with your complaints. So all you're doing is straining relationships by treating them like therapy sessions where you vent about the inequities of the world. Also, check the link I posted in the previous post showing that venting to relieve stress only hardwires your brain for more stress and more venting.

And feminism is jealousy. Its the belief that you don't have what men have and you want it. That's plain and simple jealousy. Nobody has it the same as anyone else. But feminism is the fight to prioritize your life unfairness above everyone else by suggesting you're selflessly doing it for other women and acting the most distressed. If you ever worked retail when you were a teen, customers often would try to receive priority or get special treatment by being the most visibly upset. It's not that different. There are lots of movements like feminism and they all end up fighting each other, as well as fracturing and fighting within because it's not only about which group gets priority, within each group its about which person gets priority too.


There's also no evidence activism changes things for the better. Counter culturalism, which feminism sprouted from in the 60's altered our culture and gave rise to activism.(no I don't care about 1st wave since there are 300 years between 1st and 2nd with no physical connection between them except with books and in the name that the second wave gave the first. the people involved from 2nd-4th are the same people using the same methods and are within the same hippie culture), Previously, civil rights were handled by lawyers an lawmakers. The end result did not only be civil rights lawyers shirked of getting any mention of the efforts they were making in court but the men and women leading mobs, clashing with police and society and getting people killed were hailed as heroes because they garnered media attention and headlines that boring courtrooms do not. Harvey Milk drove his friend to suicide to push his not-so-selfless agenda All for a pointless cause since there were many lawyers sleeplessly working for gay rights already. The system was already working, but no activist wants to believe that because it makes their control of the media spotlight look tyrannical.


In the 60's Students on campus at UC Berkeley fought for the right to talk about politics and take control of the university. they rescinded the power from the faculty and gave it to the students through mob rule, a format that's been adopted by almost every university in the world. feminism was a breakoff protest of that 60's Berkeley student movement because some women didn't feel they had enough power and a voice in the protests and protested the men. (documentary: Berkeley in the sixties) The movement also empowered psychedelic drug use, funded gun purchases for the black panthers, and irrevocably changed youth culture around the world to what it is today: jaded and believe the system is rigged against them even though they took control of it almost sixty years ago.

now we're seeing a rollback of free speech. we're seeing students actually believing fascism is better than liberty because its the best way to force society to prioritize their needs above everyone else. Evergreen college in Oregon is the most recent example of that where the student actually tried to racially segregate the campus in the name of equality. Or elsewhere in the world. People forget that Afghanistan by the 50's was progressive with many women, not in burkas, attending university. Men wore blue jeans and listened to rock and roll. Until the early 70's groups of students using the Berkeley model rallied students against western culture raided a US embassy, killed several Americans inside and lead their country to the disaster it became less than a decade later. (first chapter of the book "ghost wars" by Steve Coll)

rules and laws are only fair if they apply to everyone equally. If you're not a lawyer, learn the law. If you are a lawyer you don't go to protests, you make your arguments in court and guess what, if you're angry you get kicked out of the courtroom.

Be proactive. Be sensitive to your friend's feelings, including men (which you responded to pathologically with 'haha' earlier). Realize what your guy friend was saying is exactly what he would've said to his guy friends too so there's no possibility is trying to silence you or treating you differently for being a girl. In fact, he probably said it nicer than he normally does because sometimes dudes just need to hear "stfu."

Hope this helps. If it doesn't do some soul searching and try to figure it out on your own. But if you come at me or your friend like we're being an asshole when we're giving you the same advice we'd give anyone we're trying to help, guess who might be the real asshole.