a new revolution

Then start it up again. There are still hippies. It's not really in my nature but i hate the naivete of the new generation. We can do something if only we tried. I go to peace marches, in fact last summer I went to a peace march against the war in iraq, and there were so many people, soldiers included! We all want this to end, but no one will get past bitching about it online.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyBj2WZIw_I&feature=related
I tought this would fit in here

Don't mid the title
That seems to be a very good time'
That video isn't too old and what is there?
Hippies!
We haven't gone everywhere

 

I'm going to say something a very wise old hippie said to me when I was a kid.

'Little brother, the hippie movement ain't pot and beads, it ain't music and meditation, it's the people. It's people needing, wanting, craving peace, to untie themselves from the strings of bullshit the world wraps around their minds cause they want to see the truth. That's why we get toked, or wander out into the desert and do peyote, or play Hendrix and had sex with everybody in a half mile of us. We were trying to open our minds, man! Open our hearts, open our arms, give up what we didn't need and find out what we did. If I don't ever teach you nothin else, little brother, then learn this - the symbol's just that. It's a thing, the peace sign don't mean fuckall more than the american flag if it comes to it. It's what people think because of that symbol.
The other thing is that The Movement, the hippies, won't never die so long as there's at least one person out there, opening minds, opening hearts, and shaking the monkey tree a little bit, to get people thinking that maybe they don't have to be sheep and can be people..really really groovy classy amazing people if they really tried. If they let go of the bs, and shared a beer and a bong, and quit worrying over trying to micromanage everything in their little world, so many people'd be so much happier, and THEN we might see some difference in the world around.
The big earth is a macrocosm, made up of a couple hundred billion microcosms, every person's a world, and they make up this great big one. What happens if all the little worlds are sick? The big one's sick. But if we get as many of the little worlds to be healthy as possible, we can keep the big world together a little longer, and make our short stay on this little ball a bit more enjoyable for everybody. Little brother, everything we do, everything we say, sends out ripples, it affects people that we might not even know, because it affected someone between us and them. I make you mad, or sad, or happy, and you go pal around with someone else, your mood rubs off a bit, and how you treat them, because of your mood, that affects them too.'

profound stuff, and kinda still blows my mind a bit.

 

I don't know if I'm a hippie per se, but I doubt if all hippies even defined themselves that way in the beginning... But there always will be and always have been people out here with open minds, who believe in peace, love, and understanding. There are millions of us. If you want to get something going, you have to start living as if the revolution is already underway. Forget about starting it -- it's begun.

 

you got it hun. So long as there's people out there, so long as there's one of us left...well, it's like a seed. One seed, once it matures into a plant, can produces hundreds, thousands even, more. We're just cross pollinating thoughts, and waiting for good sprouting conditions.

 

I just love it when some magazine says I don't exist....

 

id be willing to start it back up , but i don't know how yet.
and i haven't herd of any peace marches near me :/

 

Oh wow, Steppenwolf’s “Monster” just came on Pandora. I’m all grins.

Some of us old hippies are still working very hard at accomplishing our ideals. I invested decades into building a foundation of knowledge, and for the past ten years I’ve been seriously making waves in the established system of social beliefs. My websites are in the top ten on search engines, and the websites are promoting the ‘hippy faith’ of pro-environment, pro-Nature, pro-love, etc., but without mentioning the word “hippy”.

There is a revolt that the man can ignore or crush with guns and goons, and then there’s a revolt that the man has no power to stop, and that revolt is by saying “NO” to the current establishment. Either a person learns how to say “NO”, or the person conforms: there are no other choices available.

A person must actually exert effort to make a change in the world, and too few people are willing to make that sacrifice. How many of this forum’s users will sacrifice an hour of their time to make a difference? A day? A year? A decade?

One of my kids earned national and international honors in the environmental movement. The world cannot be changed overnight, nor in one generation, it must be changed at the individual level, which will require generations of effort.

Willing people are an endangered specie.

Van Morrison’s “Gloria” is now playing on Pandora. Now this is cool.

 

noone ever "disappeared".........
today though there are so many more mainstream distractions for the youth that they would rather watch Tila Tequila and Tyra Banks than turn on the news or go research what is really going on. and some people don't pay as much attention because the only difference between these two wars is there is no draft. (Vietnam & Iraq)
but those aren't only reasons....just some.

momentum is building....but slowly.
you just gotta get the word out there.
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/
http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes

 

the reveloutions in the mind blud, 1nce u change urself its all good

 

A ton of them sold out.