While I think the premise of this article is a little over-hyped, I think it’s interesting that people are comparing Woodstock with the inauguration.
Inauguration is a ‘generational touchstone’:
(01-19) 17:18 PST — America’s twentysomething Millennials have driven, hitchhiked, walked, biked and bused their way to Washington in hordes this week to witness the must-see, must-be-there event of their lives – the swearing-in of Barack Obama.
Many of their Baby Boomer parents can relate: They remember this thing called Woodstock.
A rock concert on a farm in upstate New York – where Jimi Hendrix’s guitar wailed the “The Star-Spangled Banner” during three days of rock ‘n’ roll, sex and drugs – doesn’t approach the weight of the inauguration of the first African American president.
But there are surprising similarities, experts say. Just as Woodstock was for their parents, Obama’s moment assuming the presidency represents a generational touchstone event – one that will define Millennials’ lives, their age and their experience and become the event they will tell their kids and grandkids about.
And if history is a guide, a lot of folks who aren’t there today will claim they were. Woodstock attracted a relatively small 400,000, and somehow it seems millions remember being on hand.
