Forty years ago was 1968. I wasn't there and I can't (thanks God) tell the world where I was, what I did, who I belonged to and what I believed in. Unfortunately for me and for many of you that, like me, were not born or "active" in 1968, there are countless stories and myths from the lucky ones who were there.
I have first of all a sneaky feeling that 1968 has been blown out of proportion by the now nostalgic 60-ish years old that in the late sixties were young. I personally think that 1996 was a great year too, don't remember what happened in the world but I was twenty and wild.
The boys and girls of 1968 claim they were politically active and aware of what was going on in the outside world. They wanted peace, freedom and justice, unfortunately they had the tendency to steer towards the Far Left, to the wonderful world of the Soviet Union, who exactly in that year occupied with tanks the country of Czechoslovakia. How did they miss that? Vietnam was at the time a more exotic and fashionable issue, I suppose.
Ex-hippies are proud of the way they lived that year: long hair, marijuana, sex with no strings attached, quality rock bands to listen to, concerts where to go wild and tell the world to fuck off! That was great, I agree but… where is the politics? Do we really think the hippies had a clue of what they were talking about? Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan were stoned most of the time, and even if the answers is blowing in the wind, can we please know what this bloody answer is? By the way, getting rid of our armaments or nuclear power was as daft as thinking Czechoslovakia was occupied by the Soviets for good intentions.
I think Will Smith should run for the presidency of the United States.
I mean, look at him, he has much more credibility than Obama: he is more black, more hip and younger than the Democrat candidate. Think I am kidding? I wish I was, but race, age and "hipness" are the qualities that define the myth of Barack Obama, seen by the Liberals, the anti-Americans and most of the Europeans journalists as the perfect president for the USA.
On TV and in the newspapers, in fact, Obama is acclaimed and glorified. Even Boris Johnson, the Conservative Mayor of London, is cheering for him. Now here is who I think the Obama supporters are:
- The vast majority of black people, because Obama .... (similar to the way I would vote for a bald politician).
- Young people, because Obama is younger than the other chap, and the times they are a changin'...
- Naive people, because Obama "has not been" in politics for eternity the way McCain has been. So what, Winnie the Pooh hasn't been either.
- Liberals, because Obama is a Socialist with an "ethnic" name, and they can't wait to finally turn the US into a kind of Britain or France.
- The European journalists, because Obama is not another white old bastard, but a hip, Socialist with an "ethnic" name, and because they feel, somehow, still guilty of the European colonies in Africa.
- Bruce Springsteen, because by supporting Obama he can sell more albums.
- Boris Johnson, because he wants to look hip and branch out to the Left, i.e. get more votes in Peckham next time.
Now, going back to Will Smith, not only he is black, hip and young but he can also sing, act and make us laugh. On top of that, if I am not mistaken, he doesn't hang out with a black Nazi-like character such as Jeremiah Wright, the reverend of Mr Obama's church, that proclaimed white people invented AIDS to kill black people...
Man in Black, save America, please!
