If Camelot is dead, was it ever alive?

Or was it a dream that we thought was real? I think it never was. It lived as ideas. Beatles in their Sergeant Pepper, Bob Dylan, War is Over, Give Peace a Chance. They competed with the realities of living with the first petrol shock in 1972, inflation, new technology, baby boomers with family responsibilities.
Our parents who had lived through two world wars had great dreams for us. Their generation couldn't do it, but mine was to be the generation that was going to change the world. Then there was Korea, the invasion of Hungary, Vietnam, Domino theory, Malaysia. We didn't yet understand. We were still being taught about Hitler and trying to understand him.
Surely their children's generation would not have to go what they went through? Every Parent wants a better deal for their children than what they had.
That is why liberals are angry and hate. Our parents wanted so much for us and the neo cons and new right and Christian Fundamentalists would seek to deny our parents. Our hate is as much for grief for our Parents' unfulfilled expectations as it is of sadness that we let them down.