The sixties were a time of melodic unstoppable movement, as skirts climbed further away from go-go boots (so wisely, really those boots are a crime), musicians doubled as activists, and a dream crawled its way out of the oneirec.
Continuing with last’s post idea, how about taking a glimpse to the famous decade, only now with a different perspective.
Fifty decades away, 17 sub-Saharan African nations gained independence from their former European colonists.
Today, while some are busy announcing the end of the world is one year closer; the rest of humankind witnesses a revolutionary wave spreading through North African countries. Populations that are struggling to achieve real independence and craving to take the fate of their countries in their own hands.
But on second thoughts, wasn’t the independence that is now being fought for already achieved in the decade in question? As time goes by, many come to the realization that what was once was defined as the possibility of achieving sovereignty and self governance really wasn’t such. And so the circle completes itself: 2011, when stopping to think of past mistakes is mandatory. These revolutions we are being witnesses of must learn from past mistakes (cliché, but essential; it’s always back to basics anyway, right?) and realize that founding a country with violence is not the landmark they want to leave in history. Engaging in a path were the entire population has a say will give this age a stroke of reality, it will mean truly being in charge and making a genuine lasting change; then the world can start thinking of the way we will be, and stop regretting the way we were.
