David, you should consider making this a series with the next installment, “man rethinks 1990 turtlenecks in 2021.”

Remember kids, you're unique... just like everyone else.

“I hitch hiked a lot in those days” I’ve heard this so many times from this generation. My dad said he hitched hike back and forth from college every day.

It's really strange to think how some people will reject what is in their best interest for no more a reason than to say they are not like the people who came before them.

A endless cycle of building up and tearing down.

I admire his drip.....the white turtleneck, bunched-up curly cut and the deadstock oblong glasses....ur swag is on point here, for sure

David either has a magic camera or he has a way of shining it on the people that are the most honest about what really went on.

This gentleman is remarkably well grounded and reasonable.

12:25 _"Damned if we know."_ Man, its as if the same thing is happening today with Social Media.

I imagine we all look back on our lives with some regrets. How else would we know we lived? This was fascinating. Activists today may end up where this man is today.

He looks like a 1980s grandma

Hilarious to me how many never examine historical events and persons. Just an I believe statement

Very good look into a different generation. I’m fortunate to have grown up, after the 60’s, in an area that allowed a good experience into the 60’s generation but also the late 40’s and 50’s so called beatnik ideology. I can decipher both sides of that culture clash. You may not think there was, however it was there. What this interview represents to me is the transformation of what belief systems were and what crazy ideology is today this man has critical thinking and that is what’s lacking from many citizens today. It isn’t just in activism it’s in daily everything from jobs to media to day to day experiences we are actually de-evolving.

This is a gem, hearing from people from the time is invaluable. This man's honesty is awesome.

I think the most important thing we can gain from these is an understanding that we might fundamentally disagree on one level, but ultimately we find common ground. His final statement about kids and the next generation( 14:40 ) was that common ground for me. That's my exact teaching philosophy, too.

Thank you for sharing these documentaries. History does indeed repeat itself.

Great videos, thank you David!

Great question at 12:13. I always ask the same question whenever someone's sloganeering, but they're rarely so aware/humble to admit they don't know. Too many people get swept away by exciting-but-vague ideas only to find out that devil is always in the details: revolution, marriage, a new car, children...

What the young (then) man is talking about at 2:20 reminds me of an interview long time Dallas merchant Stanley Marcus had shortly before his death in the mid-90's when he was in his early 90's. He was something of a Civil Rights activist and in 1966 when long hair became a new style on young men for the first time, three high school students challenged the rule and Mr. Marcus paid their legal bills. They won and all went on to be law-abiding, successful citizens, one of them a policeman. The courts eventually overturned the policy banning long hair. A year before, in 1965, a 13 year old girl and her friends wanted to wear black arm bands protesting the Vietnam war and were denied the right. It ultimately wound up in the Supreme Court as Tinker vs. Board of Education and the decision was made in the students' favor. It all seemed reasonable at the time, but no one could have predicted the long range consequences of those two cases. From that point on, school rooms became armed camps as both teachers and administrators lost the right to remove disruptive students from their classrooms. It got to be where you couldn't even bodily restrain a disruptive student for fear of a lawsuit. My mother, who had started teaching in 1924, was ending her 46 year teaching career at this time, which had been in a rules based environment up to that time. They had a brand new school building in 1963 which my class missed out on, but it was still in immaculate condition as late as 1967. In the years 1968 and 1969 so much damage was done to the facility it was hardly recognizable any more. Lockers were destroyed, restrooms were unusable because it's where drug deals went down with seemingly no one in charge anymore because everyone was scared of a lawsuit. She retired in 1970 and lived until 1994 and was eternally thankful as the years went by that she was able to teach during the older, rules based era.

Everything you put up here is brilliant David. Thanks!!

“Yeah free love and weed was good...... but I wish I’d put more into my 401k”

An element that can easily be missed is that in America, are able to make the decision to pursue any direction of life and to make so many mistakes along the way. It's important to regard each other, even when we have such differences along the path of life of who we become and where we end. Hopefully, the most of us end up being better people.

You offer the most excellent subjects. Thank you for what you do.

This is a good interview. Thanks for posting.

Dearest david these things are so important like a snapshot of the currents of history

Thank you. So pertinent now - the lessons to be learned yet again

There is a way for human beings to get along with each other... it involves people agreeing the state is evil.

Very vital work that we can contrast towards our own time, all these videos are great accounts of life

Really enjoying these films David. I'm feeling inspired to film interviews with my parents before they are gone. The situations change but it seems people basically don't change. They behave on a spectrum depending on the situation. How would Millennials live if they were in the 60s. Probably much like the hippies did. I also think that demographic swells and contractions have had massive effects on society. Very interesting ideas to consider.

"We're all individuals!" "I'm not." "SHHHHH!"

Well shiet, looks like we've made a full circle. Jokes aside I gotta say this interviewing style was very captivating and personal. It's incredible what you can do with one camera, well framed, some directional light and crisp audio. The black background further enhances the focus on the person interviewed. Most interviews today are shot from 3-5 angles constantly switching views every couple of seconds even in monologue with graphical backgrounds or in fancy rooms. Not saying anything is right or wrong, I just try to understand why this interview had me in a state of trance for 15 minutes.

Mr. Frond reminisces about his youth.

I'm amazed in your skill of letting folk open up. You really made a memorial to years long past. Immense respect.

Classics are important. Start with a foundation and grasp context of your surroundings. Then build on that with what's in your heart

He is describing the American penchant for mass hysteria and societal delusion.

Strange that some of today’s social leaders emerged from this overly short sighted, idealistic, and selfish generation.

So...the violence was a problem, not because people could get hurt, but that the group's image could get hurt? Hmm. Too late, I guess.

"I haven't fallen into the trap of, 'you have to make money doing this'" - As much as I love listening to these guys, I can't stand listening to Boomers say things like that.

So interesting. Thank you.

Good interview. I enjoyed his journey of self-examination in the context of growing up in the sixties. What worked and what did not....what needed to be reevaluated. I'm glad he didn't embrace the "f'k everyone I got mine' values of the eighties but still believed in being motivated by what's good for the society as a whole. Thanks David.

Interesting video Mr. Hoffman. I was wondering. Why dont you make a video where you review activists now and activist from the 60s? You could compile the two videos together to see if there is any similarities

I'd like to have a beer with this guy, he's pretty honest and articulate and was a participant in the late 60s - 70s US counterculture.

Your channel is great!

He's got Harry Caray glasses.

I used to hold a lot of scepticism for capitalism and democracy and a lot of sympathy for communism when I was a pup. I am embarrassed to type this. As I got older the value that I hold towards the individual just got deeper and deeper. Today I would take up arms against any communist threat.

great vids, cant help but see this guy looks like Ewan Mcgregor and Bill Gates combined

Why do so many "Activists" look like characters from the Muppet Show?

Thanks, David. This certainly brings back the memories of the era. Many of them good. some a bit lustful, but memories of youth, for sure.

Wow...this was excellent... I'm curious what he thinks about what's happening in the county presently...🤔

I'd like to hear this guy's thoughts on the current culture war.

: They got to the extremes they went to because, as he said, they didn't even know what what they were sloganing meant but were just trying to get change. It's hard to change from anything if you have no idea what you're trying to get to.

Now these people have kids......

In the late 60s Cointelpro was agitating. I'm surprised he didn't find that out. Kids don't understand that wars are orchestrated by the elites. The people can get along fine if we are left alone.

I was raised in a Military family and my dad was in the Air Force for 23 years. My dad threw a fit when I registered as a CO in 72. I don't understand how we went from wanting to change the world to wanting to buy it

I wonder what this guy thinks of the modern day woke left. Would be interesting to know.

7:10 He’s already passing something on to another generation right now.

How did it go from change to revolution? Nixon '68 & '72, Humphrey '68.

activism is used by the system to create the change that is in its best interest. you are not a rebel

You didn't end the war, you just ended America's involvement in the war. The war continued without America and the Russian backed North Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam again and took over.

that hair + that turtleneck + those glasses... is he in disguise?

Gen Alpha needs to see this... if they're able to pay attention hopefully...

That turtleneck is 🔥

I am gonna sound like the middle-aged that I am, but... kids, you will almost certainly abandon, by the time you are 35 or 45, a great many of the ideas and beliefs you hold at age 20. So don't commit yourselves too deeply.

Cambridge became the domain of the devil in the late 1940’s when they cancelled Father Feeney and his ministry.

14:45 "They're not kids, they're human beings. They're just small and they don't have a vast realm of experience yet" We have a name for people like that, they're called kids.

Get we get a round of hands for the most hilarious turtle neck in history though .

I hate that I can hear the spit in his mouth.

How to do lighting like this?

To everyone complaining how it was "so much better to be young in the 60's and the 70's"... Realize that you ARE living through that period right now. We are right back in the hot center of the late 60's. Can't wait for the loop to go forward again :D

Ahh youth. A time of testing what we grew up being taught.

I've never been satisfied with or without money but life is much easier with it, but getting it is never worth it.

70’s 80’s early 90’s were great the best times in my life . Modern day is full of hate and bullshit .

It's strange that a minister's kid couldn't see that what the 60's were really about was inverting the dominant paradigm and it's why we are where we are today with the culture now in the hands exclusively of the godless, the irreligious,and the amoral who got their start in the radicalism of the 60's. And, apparently, he still doesn't see that he played a part in that inversion in his misguided quest to find himself in the radical culture rather than in a reformation of the culture; away from the drab materialism and stultifying conformity to a genuine realization of each human's worth before God and each other.

Oh shit, as part of the much more recent riots in Isla Vista, it's interesting to hear from someone who was there at the bank of america burning. Still talked about in IV today.

10:28 and that my friends is human nature, nobody is above human nature

Old hippies hate logic. Now, their gran kids are the same and that's called progress. Water runs downhill, No matter what you belive.

I'm 66. We were not taught to think for ourselves in school; rather we were lectured to in preparation for college or sent to vocational classed for a blue-collar job. Teachers didn't expect to be asked questions about subject matter. Even in classes like social studies and English, students were told what things mean rather than asked for their opinions. I remember short hair being required of football and basketball players. I remember our cross country coach totally misrepresenting the inmate revolt at Attica, which was going on in another part of the state. After graduation, I was basically a George Wallace conservative. But then, during three years in the Army, I began to educate myself through books. By the time I finished four years of college, I was a democratic socialist, which I still am today. It seems to me that today's students are more likely to be prompted to develop their critical thinking skills. I believe that society is slowly progressing with each generation. I certainly never expected to see gay marriage legalized in my lifetime. I never expected to see a black president in my lifetime. The explosion of social media is a two-edged sword. Social media allow any kid to develop their creativity, which is something my generation had a harder time doing. But social media also becomes what television was once called, a vast wasteland of empty ideas and vapid entertainment. Social media also is dangerous, with outright lies presented as the truth. For every two steps society takes forward, we take one step back. The fact that a person like Trump was elected and almost re-elected shows that we haven't progressed far enough and thoroughly enough from the 1960s.

That's Charles Nelson Riley's illegitimate son.

Follow your heart? Our hearts are evil.

"Artists and musicians are always one step to the side anyway." ~4:36

She's beautiful, I don't care if she doesn't have any values anymore.

The US has so many activists today who continued their work from the 1960s. Seems this guy was just going through a phase and was just casually part of the movement. Seems he didn't actually know what he was fighting but there are people who are/were more organized and commited than him. Lets not forget how J Edgar Hoover's FBI targetted certain Civil Rights groups and citizens because they made progress in their communities. Vietnam, Chicago Trials, IRA, Cuban Missle Crisis, Black Power Movement, MLK killed, JFK killed, the NYC Black Out was all going on during the 60s. He's telling the story of being a suburban hippie- it's not the story of of everyone during that time.

Idealistic is nice but it could backfire to unrealistic and no facts. It still exists today

That's all he understands of and learned from his activism? "I look from the early 60s to the late 60s, and I don't really understand how we went to the extremes that we got to, I really don't understand how we went from 'change' to 'revolution'..." It's not as if there are no answers to those questions. Finding them, however, takes some digging, and may cost you your illusions, as well as some of your good opinion of yourself.

can i ask what his name is? it would be interesting to look him up

He should make a video about rethinking his glasses now in 2020s.

This guy has to be 80 years old now if he was 20 in 1970. What's his name? I'd like to know what he's been doing for the past 30 years.

"Vathrom of experience"" was "vathrom" the word he used? I'm not able to find a definition of this word. I wouldn't mind throwing this word around if its a real word.

soy was a problem, even in the 90s

he should "rethink" his fashion sense

Fascinating to watch, especially considering that these developments do not always happen the same way everywhere. I was born in the late 80ies. My parents, aunts and uncles were not part of this kind of movement, since they all grew up behind the Iron Curtain where such behavior was heavily punished. On the other hand, the Easter Bloc supported the '60ies hippie movments in the West as a means to destabilize society (reminds of you something?). Yet, we should not look back at this generation and say "look how dumb they were by trying to change something, and now we're living in the dump". They did indeed change something, even it's not that noticable. Like, the 60ies in West-Germany were more about processing the Third Reich, and how their parents took part in arguably history's greatest crime by their own free will (and yes, there was intimidation and peer pressure, but people still had a choice not to commit those horrendous crimes to their own kind but they did). Also, look what happened with the Civil Rights Movement. We do indeed have still a long way to go, and Neo-Liberalism is shitting on all those ideals by putting a label on it and market it to a younger generation as a lifestyle. But hell, things did change, and they will change again. Where to? Let's see. In any case, things are not that simple, and I believe we all need to figure this crazy, nonsensical world we live in. So make the best out of it people!

YAA! BABY!

Imagine "Former BLM Rioter rethinking the 2020s in 2050“

would love to hear what this guy has to say about activism in 2020 10:44

Very profound stuff

In 2020, there's a video where he "rethinks" his clothing choice for the 1990's interview.... Sometimes people make a habit of bad decisions...

I wonder if he's rethinking his choice of frames in 2019.

what is his name?

they used to fight for peace, now they fight for ???????

Very articulate man