How do you estimate the role of Sixty-Eighters in modern history ?
For Europe the role of Sixty-Eighters is still nefarious. The Sixty-Eighters infect all cultural life, from schools to Parliaments and back to universities and schools. Since I belong to this disgraceful generation myself, being twenty-two in 1968, I know what kind of contradictory feelings which overwhelmed my immature brain in that period. Over distance in time I cannot see that others of my generation had luckier moves, experiences and choices than myself. We all reacted or repressed reactions out of historic despair, generational distress. Notwithstanding which side our parents fought for during WWII, we of second generation needed to free ourselves from the myths of our warrior parents. They simply did not leave us oxygen for own life. They talked and talked about war miseries and war heroism. We were reduced in all aspects, were dwarfs in history, being born with or growing up with peace instead of war. Our parents, without being conscious about it themselves, despised us. War gi