One could say that today's America is completely different from the America of the 60's, but that isn't completely true. Much of what is on the surface has changed and the problems seem to be different as well, but when one takes a deeper look into what America is really like he sees that it hasn't changed a whole lot. The country still suffers from many of the same struggles it had in the 60's. The difference: war is in another part of the world and the flower children had their own children, who are now the ones opposed to the government's decision. .
In her text, Sontag mentions "America was founded on a genocide, on the unquestioned assumption of the right of white Europeans to exterminate a resident . " Later in the same text she goes on to say that in the 60's American supremacy is trying to take over and control the lives of "countless millions who have never heard of the United States". Today that still goes on. The U.S. is always "concerned" with the well being of people in other countries, so they invade and "help" these people. In reality the U.S. is only helping themselves. Our country only becomes concerned and tries to help the countries that we can benefit from, whether it's their oil, crops or sweat factories that make everything America sells. What else would explain America having 60% of the world's wealth and only 6% of the world's population? .
To prove my point lets turn to "Che's Last Letter" . Abbie Hoffman wrote this letter trying to discover letters in the Bolivian jungle, but what she did was point out many of the problems America and it's people face. There were so many problems that in the letter there is a suggestion that the youth of America should join a revolution or maybe even start their own revolution. Both authors mention a war of some kind and everyone knows about the wars that went on in the 60's. The two big ones was the Vietnam war and the Cuban missile crisis.
