re: All things considered, do you think the 1960s were positive for society?

I'll limit my thoughts to what began to happen to The American Family in the 1960's.

The 1960's gave rise to the most self-indulgent period in American history. The American Family began to unravel, by design, through The Great Society, and a belief that human beings could "liberate" themselves from human nature.

As I child of the 1970's I paid a terrible price for that. We were the most under-parented generation in American history-basically forced to be little adults at 12, because our flaky arse parents were off getting their "I'm ok, you're okay" on. We then doubled down the mistake by raising the most over-parented generation in American history. At least those who had not replaced the husband with a government check.

The 1960's (and since) have been all about a kind of American Arrested Development, in which our cultural taste-makers believed more than anything that the Consequences of behavior could just be denied. The Great Society spawned out-of-wedlock birth explosion which spawned virtually every single social pathology that plagues us to this day. In 1965, 24 percent of black infants and 3.1 percent of white infants were born to single mothers. In 2012 the black it had risen to 73%.In fact, the combined rates for unwed American mothers of all races have climbed to a staggering 41 percent. For women under age 30, the rate now stands at 53 percent Think about the ramifications of that.

Now the 60's also gave us tube tops, short skirts, bikinis, and awesome rock and roll and Asian cuisine in America, racial integration and all the awesome cultural stuff we enjoy now...