Reddit reviews 1968: The Year That Rocked the World

Yeah, pretty much. Obviously, I only know about it historically, but yeah. Peace and love and all that, which I believe in, but they really took it to an extreme. One of the more horrific scenes I've ever seen was a documentary about the time, and this guy is interviewing these parents who had given their 3-5 year old child acid. The kid is freaking out, and the interviewer is asking them why they did it and the parents are just like "acid is beautiful" or something (I forget the details, sorry). The point is, there was something to the liberalization of society, but there were definitely people who took it way too far.

There's a book called 1968 - The Year that Rocked The World by Mark Kurlansky that goes into detail about the era. It's really well-done and both sympathetic and critical: https://www.amazon.com/1968-Year-That-Rocked-World/dp/0345455827

You still get the reflexively anti-war people at rallies all the time, who basically are against any military engagement regardless of the situation. Again, I'm not saying you can't make the case for pacifism, but I always point out that Ghandi was a medic in two wars, had a deep respect for soldiers because of their civic courage, and that non-violence as he practiced it is a step above conventional warfare in that it's basically a willingness to go to war without weapons, rather than a means to avoid conflict.

There was also real stuff happening, just like there is today. My understanding is that Vietnam really drove people nuts. From what I've read, it was kind of this underlying thing that really stirred the pot. As much as people might talk about Iraq and Bush 1) there were far, far fewer casualties, and 2) There was no draft.

https://www.amazon.com/1968-Year-That-Rocked-World/dp/0345455827

I don't know for sure if this would have what you're looking for.

I like that, I remember '68...tho I was a child. Dark times and it took just over a decade but eventually gave us Reagan who Trumped...

No, sorry... the documentary was something I watched in a history class in college, I want to say it was called "Hearts and Minds" and had aired on PBS, but I'm not finding anything on the Google about it. I did find a reference for the kill white babies thing.

One good book I read on the era was this. I can't remember how much it said about the Weather Underground specifically, but I think they need to be understood in the context of the overall time period. This was a very weird period of time when kids were taking over buildings on most every college campus in America and shutting down campuses for weeks or months, priests were pouring blood on Vietnam War draft records... the Weather Underground were some of the most extreme people of the day, but they hardly existed in a vacuum so to look just at their story, they'd seem just like inexplicable nuts.