a new revolution

why did the hippies disapear, why didnt you keep revolting, so the world would be a better place. why cant we start it up again . think of a way to start it all up and build momentum again. all that is really needed is willing people.

 

Hey hippies did never disappear thats just what people say
Just becose its not fashion that doesn't mean that they disappeard
But i fight every day with little things like boicoting the big companies you should also go in peace march and stuff


One love

 

You need numbers. Do you have them ? I mean people. And get ready to be shot down.

Peace

 

You must have been looking in the wrong places. We've always been here. We just kind of took a step back to see what the next generation would do.

 

Yeah... well, I don't know about the "took a step back" part.

I've been a political activist working for the environment, for civil rights, and against wars since the early 1960s. Don't let lack of news media attention make you think we're not still around & still working.

Peace, eace:
poor_old_dad

 

Yeah I love how the Love Generation told their own kids it was all bullshit for the last 30 years.

Now that times are tough maybe ongoing cultural revolution wasnt such a bad idea after all.

 

Yay old hippies rock!

 

how could i get the numbers then?

 

Simple answer: Vietnam and the draft ended.

 

yea but now there is iraq.

 

"It was all bullshit"????? I don't know what you mean, but that's not what I told & taught my two sons. I taught them to be open minded & question things and find their own answers & not to just blindly follow anything or anybody. To find their own truths and to be their own person. To find and follow their own bliss. I taught them that extravagance, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride are considered the seven deadly sins for a reason, but without pushing religion. And that charity, diligence, patience, kindness, and humility are among the seven virtues for a reason. I taught them that Happiness and Health are more important that being prosperous. Along those lines, I taught them that the old saying, "Time is Money", is false. Time is infinitly more valuable than money. After all, you can spend all your money, waste it, squander it, and then you can get more money. But once you spend, waste, or squander your time.... well, that's it, you can't get more time. All the money in the world can't buy back yesterday and when we say tat tomorrow we'll be talking about today. So spend your today, each & every today, wisely.

"Now that times are tough" - got news for you times have always been, in various ways, tough, always have been, always. And they in some way or another always will be. I taught my sons that the best way to avoid tough times related problens and minimise the effect is to live a simple life. Along the lines of Thoreau & Buddism.

If that's supposed to be an answer to the originally asked question, " Why did the hippies disapear?" it's overlooking a few things. Some folks around here seem to think that hippies only protested Vietnam and the draft, and that it was only hippies protesting those things. Both of those ideas are false. Hippies did and still are protesting and in other ways working on a wide range of issues, not just Vietnam & the draft. The environment, sheltering the homeless, feeding the hungry, ending poverty, lot & lots of things.
Plus many, many, other groups were also protesting Vietnam & the draft. There were Catholic priests & nuns, Buddists, Quakers, Mormons, WW1, WW2, & Korean War veterns, then later Vietnam vets too. There were civil rights folks protesting Nam & the draft too, because a very disproportantly large percent of draftees & the guys in Nam were black. It sure wasn't only hippies.

But I think the whole idea that hippies disappeared, venished, ceased to exist is wrong. Maybe less visible, but still here. Just look at the Hip Forums Statistics: Threads: 286,660, Posts: 4,150,886, Members: 111,999, and that's just here.

If you don't think the Iraq war isn't being protested check here:
http://news.google.com/archivesearc...6/08/2008&lr=&as_src=&as_price=p0&as_scoring=


Peace, eace:
poor_old_dad

 

Just be patient... we'll start a revolution. Look at the world. It's getting bad... soon everyone will start fighting back. Hopefully we'll see the day love!

 

if that's what they're calling it these days then, YAY BULLSHIT!

true dat.

 

Sorry poor old dad no offense meant, and Im glad youre an exception. I was born in 1968 a year of broken dreams for many...I grew up in the 70s and 80s in the northeast/NY with hippy parents who turned cynical yuppies & who wandered off into new age land and distanced themselves from their somewhat broken dreams of cultural transformation, who felt maybe the 80s were the 50s theyd tried to avoid and had to accept nonetheless. And I have met many hundreds of similar folks from your generation who seemed to feel the same. Only in the last few years of deeper turmoil have I seen these people start to reawaken...

I as an individual went from 70s hippy child to 80s angry metalhead and back to hippy roots again...my parents still carry the schism and moral paralysis of their cultural confusion..Im glad to see that hasnt been a problem for you and your family.

 

ya see, my parents always told me that i could do whatever i set my mind to and when i wanted to stand out on the busiest street corner in my small ass town with some signs protesting the war among other things (on the anniversary of the March on Washington D.C.), they had no problem with it. they didn't even laugh (i really expected them to laugh..). they understand. i'm just so glad they do.

most of the baby boomers just gave up, for some unknown reason. maybe they had become disillusioned, maybe they were just tired, but the movement and culture they started is NOT dead. it's nowhere near dead.

history repeats itself, my friends.

 

I personally wouldn't judge this forum by it's numbers claiming they are all hippies. I've run into a couple that certainly go against the idea of a hippy. We all have up's and downs but there are some military men or ex military in this forum who still believe that fighting the wars and going in are beneficial and I see them in ignorance about recent events. Stuff has been stated that we should look up to ALL or support ALL the military. I personally think it's hogwash. As far as my opinion on the hippies, no they are not dead. A lot may not wear the same clothes but the ideas and morals are still here. I personally think that there just isn't enough and am a firm believer in the numbers. You gain enough, you would not ever need to fear the military or war EVER again. Maybe a suggestion of changing some tactics of gaining necessary followers of a peaceful movement. Just my opinion.

 

I think the movement is already starting,
just needs a little more help taking off.

 

Didn't they just get sweet jobs in the dot-com industry, make millions, and retire into the woods? It's time for a new wave of goodpeople, but most college folks won't care until they risk a draft.

The Instinct: Thanks for giving me nightmares with that pic. Doood.....

 

I just read a magazine where they said there is NO hippies like they were in the 60's but they also said the ideas still live in amnesty and other clubs. But i think that they are wrong the reoporters just couldn't find hippies cause they weren't looking from the right places. In Finnland there is 5 million people and 10,000 cannabis plantations.
And i know maaany hippies around my town. And many of them smoke pot and tie dyes t-shirts so if there is hippies in this little town (called oulu) i have hopes that there still are hippies.

Peace.love and happiness
And don't forget gypsy,sun & rainbows

 

They didn't disappear... What I think happened is that in the '60s a majority of the 'hippies' were just along for the ride, just looking for a way to get high get laid and get 'in' with the trends of the times. After the '60s passed those people just stopped being hippies, as it wasn't so 'cool' anymore. The REAL hippies are the ones who are still here today you know being hippies, young and old. I thought they were all gone too until I went to the Kerrville Folk Festival... there were more crazy, kind, happy, respectful music-making pot-smoking hip folk in that one place than I ever could have imagined. I had my first psychedelic experience there (mescaline) and I had a blast. It's every may in Kerrville, TX if you're interested.