The old joke is that if you remember the '60s, you weren't really there. The adverse subtext of that joke is that one shouldn't bother to remember the decade at all.
This collective amnesia makes The Weather Underground an unsettling experience. It forces remembrance of a time when comfortable white suburban American kids became motivated to become mad bombers in the 9/11 sense -- complete with training camps, assumed identities and an "underground" existence that spanned the '70s.
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