12-24-2008, 03:49 AM
I was there at the same time, with friends in the same age range.
It was popular among that age group to be sort of a neo-hippie, rejecting modern values (which typically were referred to as "jeder Scheiß der aus Amerika kommt") and living for today. Wake up, make tea, roll a cigarette, drink tea and read the newspaper, take a nap. The older generation referred to them as "well-fed". They really were neo-hippies, the product of the prosperity of their parents, just like here in the sixties.
I don't get your comment about having your career chosen for you at age 12 (were you in east germany?), or how it relates to drugging and boozing and living a happy-go-lucky lifestyle.
It was popular among that age group to be sort of a neo-hippie, rejecting modern values (which typically were referred to as "jeder Scheiß der aus Amerika kommt") and living for today. Wake up, make tea, roll a cigarette, drink tea and read the newspaper, take a nap. The older generation referred to them as "well-fed". They really were neo-hippies, the product of the prosperity of their parents, just like here in the sixties.
I don't get your comment about having your career chosen for you at age 12 (were you in east germany?), or how it relates to drugging and boozing and living a happy-go-lucky lifestyle.