after listening to this interview, I can't help but think that she might want to stick with singing and

songwriting, as her theorizing here sounds like little more than babble.

She references St. Ronnie somewhere, but can't even pronounce "Reagan" correctly.

She re-interates the same message from this song, but from the perspective of knowing what consumerism has done to this country.

She's a WWII baby... right along there with Joe Biden. Like an uncle I have, they were the "older kids" to the oldest boomers and incorporated the "Beat" generation ideologies, in an attempt to seize the moment (eventually setting trends for the boomers).

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It does not here.

It is almost sad to hear her parrot the narritive of the mass media that "they" (us) had such promise and passion for change only to lose it to long hair, drugs, chanting and navel-gazing.

"I was not part of it. They got all hung up on the War...and blamed the soldiers. They were dumb. Even (Bob) Dylan's writing was dumb..."

She is a great part of the soundtrack of our lives, no doubt, but I would not look to her for insight into our generation or those times.

Wishing her well in her current situation, however.

At the same age. They look a lot alike.

Granted, many baby boomers did take after their parents in pursuit of money and status. But many of us cared deeply about issues such as the Vietnam War, the environment, poverty and human rights. The "keeping a clean house" ads that aired in the 60s were aimed at our parents. We loved her music because we shared her values.

industry. Of course many boomers cared about anti-war, civil rights and social justice issues but we also grew up, went to work and started families. Very few people we knew continued with hard core, self-absorbed and recreational aspects of the 1960s and 1970s but realize some were messed up and never came out of it. Also none of the five of us turned into greedy consumerist Reaganites or worked for Wall Street or corporate America, far from it. Now I'll listen to what Joni has to say in the interview.