I was at Woodstock ’99 and it destroyed my innocence
&gt; If anything, Woodstock taught me that nothing in this world is black and white; the capacity for both love and greed exist to some degree in all of us. The highest highs can come with the lowest lows; beauty can be corrupted. But mention Woodstock ’99 to me, and my initial feelings aren’t of guilt or disgust. They’re of joy, nostalgia, and the thrill of being able to utter the phrase, “Dude… I was there.”<p>I honestly don&#x27;t know how I feel about this conclusion.  It seems like a very whitewashed (pardon the pun) thing to say.<p>You could talk about the corporate gouging for water and food, which was extravagant.  Or the lack of planning and safety traded in for profit which was so in vogue right before the dotcom boom and bust.  They were supposed to provide free drinking water fountains, but provided like 1, and it didn&#x27;t work right.  Bottled water was ridiculously overpriced.<p>Even the Simpsons ragged on this, in 2001 in the episode &quot;It&#x27;s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge&quot;, Otto is at a concert where he gets set on fire and runs to the concession stand where Becky pours an 8 dollar bottle of water on him to put out the fire.  That&#x27;s when he knew it was love.<p>Or you could talk about how people can easily resort to mob action at a person on a stage shouting at them.  That would have been a good lesson to learn maybe 20 years ago.<p>Or how consent has radically changed over the years, or if you will, consent is more respected than it was back then, and how that&#x27;s a good thing.<p>This feeling of nostalgia almost points to the fact that we didn&#x27;t learn.  We just watched it go by and did what everyone does.  We go home.  We turn on the TV.  We make the same mistakes again.  It&#x27;s almost this feeling of &quot;yeah, there&#x27;s good and bad on both sides, but let&#x27;s not try to do better next time.  it is what it is&quot;<p>Maybe there was supposed to be another paragraph after this one (it feels like the article ends in a weird place, maybe got edited)?  The title is that it destroyed your innocence.  Which I guess is true, but usually you don&#x27;t just lose it, you trade it for knowledge, and experience.  In this case, I&#x27;m just not sure they did.