I was born in Sweden in 1954. I lived in the USA from 1959 through the first half of 1970. Then I moved back to Sweden.
So I grew up in America during the 1960s. I experienced Beatlemania, the Summer of Love, read about Woodstock in the newspapers (I did not attend the Woodstock festival, but I was aware of it).
I would say that, despite the racism and other ills in America at the time, the culture of the states during the 1960s was *much* healthier than the culture of today.
The baby-boomers did more harm than good with their contemptible, nihilistic "counterculture". America and the rest of the west (including my own current place of residence, Sweden) have gone downhill an awful lot since the 1960s.
Kant has been winning, unfortunately - and the antidote, Ayn Rand, has been largely ignored.
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