"a very happy result"

Okay, I'll ask.  Andrew Potter posits that "most of the important theoretical developments that gave rise to what we call “the sixties” actually happened a decade or two earlier".  David Frum argues, in his How We Got Here - The 70s: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life - For Better or Worse (which is really an underappreciated book, IMHO), that the "1960s have a reputation as America's turning-point decade, but ... that the 10 years following mattered more" (those aren't Frum's words, but Amazon's, but they capture his argument).  Both Frum and Potter are smarter than me by a few orders of magnitude, but the question is begged - did anything of consequence actually happen in the 1960s?  Aside from, say, "Stray Cat Blues"?

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[andrew potter]

My mom got pregnant with me in the sixties.