The Return of the 60's

Anyone think the 60's and hippy era will ever come back?

 

Nah never again.

 

nope

 

hippies were a movement that changed the world. present day or neo hippies are embracing the vestiges of hippydom. If you act like a hippy in 2020, they'll say "a present day hippy" it won't be unique again, because it already happened.
hippies don't make a comeback, there will always be "hippy type" people, but REAL hippies were born of war and oppression, and the baby boom.

on the other hand, if you build a time machine, you could go back to that era. the Age of Aquarius will return, if thats what it was, but no one can agree as to when.

 

makes sense i guess. yeah i never really thought the era would truly return like back then, especially with how fucked up the world and people are getting nowadays...

 

The world is too fukt up for the hippy culture to fully re-emerge. Sure, there are still hippies, young and old, but the idealism has changed too much for it to be the same as before. Nowadays, people are more concerned with having fun and cutting loose, as opposed to mind-expansion, exploration, and bettering the world.

 

we could start a new revolution, but we'd need a cool name.

 

Yeah......a cool name.....but nothing that sounds too...."culty", ya know?

 

I'd say ravers and their MDMA are the closest thing now a days to hippies. Trust me, I'd give anything to have the '60s come back, but as Mother's Love said, we've already been there done that. I mean hopefully some hippie-esque values will be instilled into mainstream society with the Go Green movements and Anti War movements and stuff, but it'll never be the same...

 

I could give a fuck if the hippy movement comes back. It would be sweet if the ideals and the values came back, but we're all on our own, as far as that's concerned, and we have to fend for ourselves.

I think it would do the world more good if the acid culture came back in full force. Lots of lives could be changed and lots of hostility/frustration/confusion could be dealt with if we could just have some controlled LSD sessions throughout the world.

 

i wouldnt want it to come back
they had their era
its our turn now
lets make something better than hippies

 

^^^Damn right. We don't need something from the past to define ourselves.

 

same exact shit was goin on back then that is goin on now... they had vietnam... we have viet-now... like someone else said.. they were born or war and oppression.. what do you think is goin on right now? we have a never ending war goin on... government sees fit to do as they please... we're in a recession.. possibly the worst one yet...


the only one difference i see between the 60s and now.. is they had a revolution because they had people to speak up for the little guy.. lot of influential people helped cause the "hippy movement"... i cant think of anyone in the now that could singly start a movement

 

I live in a area infested with drugs everybody and their mom is smoking weed, popping pills, etc these days I think as decades pass by the drug problem(talking about hard drugs btw) is going to get worse all over the world
The 60s aint coming back though

 

There are always going to be liberal minded people. And really... I think that's all that matters. No matter how small, there are always gonna be revolutions. The world is good.

 

it's weird to think about what movement is really gonna happen within the next decade. every decade or so, something new has happened...new music...new clothes...new personalities...etc. i wonder what our new one will be like. they've probably all said that in the past before all the new shit came out, but really thinking about it now...it seems like everything has already been thought of. what could be next?

 

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell that a 60's style hippie movement could ever surface these days. The 60's occupied a unique place in history where the beatnik and hippie countercultures were pitted against an establishment run by a generation shaped by the great depression and the second world war. These people involved themselves heavily in local politics and paid close attention to local and national issues. They cultivated relationships with their neighbors and were active their communities. The hippies challenged established norms- everything from responsibility to one's country to standards of dress, personal grooming, and hair length... and the media became fixated on what was looked at as quite the oddity giving the old school mindset a front row seat to observe what most found very repulsive- offensive to everything they valued... and threatening to all they had fought so hard to preserve.

These days, the "establishment" is little more than big corporate entities and while most people will concede that it's wrong, most aren't sufficiently offended by the borderline national larceny to do or say anything about it. Most folks are too immersed in making a load of loot for themselves to be bothered with community. There has been no defining event to pull people together, no war fought by a generation and to this point no national economic disaster severe enough to break the spell that the consumer economy has over most. 9/11 had potential, but in retrospect, our life wasn't disrupted enough to make anyone care for very long.

The media has become more of a tool of the establishment- being clever in limiting how it covers counterculture events like war protests. A new hippie movement couldn't possibly have the same novelty value it did during the 60's for newspapers and television. People have effectively allowed themselves to be isolated by paying too much attention to the trappings and distractions of the "he who dies with most toys wins" approach to life... which is promoted by corporations more than happy to take money shelled out in quest of the newest game system, designer outfit, big screen TV, etc..

Even if people enlisted in a new-age hippie movement, it's doubtful that many would pay any attention. What made the 60's movement unique was its political relevance and that the conservative establishment dignified it by paying attention, giving it air time and print space... devoting police resources to dealing with it and having the media there to cover police brutality. Culturally, the mainstream establishment-media is more savvy- realizing that denying visibility will starve a counterculture of the exposure it needs to become empowered.

 

Oh God no. Like we need yet another generation like the Baby Boomers who act like they changed the world and that they're entitled to anything.

 

That's what I'm talking about. The world is more fukt up than it has ever been, because of the fact that people aren't as concerned with the real issues as they once were........a completely different, and more selfish set of ideals.

 

people need to quit saying "i wish the hippies were back" and instead figiure out the dreams and ideals the hippies had. we could still carry out the dreams.