It's time for a new National Anthem. America is divided into two definite divisions. The easy thing to cop out with is sayin' black and white. You can see a black person. But now to get down to the nitty-gritty, it's getting' to be old and young - not the age, but the way of thinking. Old and new, actually.. because there's so many even older people that took half their lives to reach a certain point that little kids understand now. . Jimi Hendrix
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This quote is a good example of how we use the wrong word. He wasn’t talking about “age,” and he certainly didn’t mean to refer to age as a “way of thinking.” The sentiment expressed here is one that was prevalent during the 1960s and 1970s, when the counterculture movement took off. The hope was that this would be an era where everyone would reinvent themselves and break out of old ways of thinking. But, sadly, it didn’t happen, at least not in the way that we wanted it to happen. Instead, we got the opposite: We got people who just kept getting older and older.

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