Those who went to Woodstock were not in rebellion against their parents, at least not in any fundamental sense. They may have upset the tradition-and-experiment balance that so many establishment liberals hoped to maintain, but the young people of that decade were acting out the imperative of openness that underlay the uneasy settlements of the 1950s. The same holds for the women’s movement, gay liberation, and now transgender rights. These causes were not immediately endorsed by the postwar establishment, but over time they have been accepted, even embraced, as part of the general,
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