Did the hippie revolution really die?

the revolution never died, it waits for people to channel it. With how things are going right now, revolution doesn't seem too far away. I intend to be apart of it.

 

What would you say the message is?

 

no it isnt dead it'll never die.

 

What??? WHAT??

Think about this here.

Okay start off by saying, I really dont want the hippies to have a revolution, Hippies couldnt control the world, our souls too dynamic.

The revolution in the 60s was to rise up against the war, and say that its wrong.
and equal rights movements.

But now what are you fighting for? some DREAM, there is literally nothing that The World is doing to you, that you so called hippie could change..

Except the war in Iraq, but most of yous hippies on here would rather talk about your cat, than fight this thing..

But global change will come on all levels, i think. Even the fucking mailman, he's earth too you know!!!

 

Well, I've always thought the hippie revolution was about something bigger than that. Maybe the war and the civil rights thing we triggers, and things they could use as leverage, but what does smoking pot and LSD have to do with any of that? What about rock & roll? What about having sex in public? I've always thought what the hippie ideal boiled down to was that civilization, in whatever form it took, was something to drop out of. It wasn't good. The best state for anyone to live in was au-naturelle like in primative times.

 

how is taking acid and having sex in public and listening to rock and roll MORE THAN opposing the real problems..

its all mind over matter thing, if you choose to create an oppresive force beyond you, that you have to drop out of to be free, than thats your doing, but its a paradigm in itself, which is insufficient as our current establishment. Theres no point in doing it, waste of energy to me. Couldnt create any major change. Its not fighting the man, its just fighting yourselves.
and being a hippie certainly isnt "saving the world". The force that hippies nowadays fight, is a bunch of bologne. Its like the bumper sticker, jerry's dead, phish sucks, get a job. Not that you have to fit into the corporate scheme like in an office all day... but seriously think about the world and life,
You can make it anything you want...


This is so funny though, it totally reminds me of this quote i heard from john lennon about the revolution

"and like children everyone went back to their rooms and said "Well we didn't get a wonderful world of happy peace and flowers and chocolate, and it wasnt just pretty and beautiful all the time." And that's what everybody did "we didn't get everything we wanted." Just like they did. Every body went back to there rooms and sulked "we're just going to play rock n' roll and not do anything else, we're going to stay in our rooms, and the world is a nasty horrible place, cause they didnt give us everything we cried for." Right?! Well crying for it wasnt enough..."

 

Because they did it just because they wanted to. Nobody dropped acid and asked "did I stop the war?" Yes, the war and civil rights violations were problem they were combatting, but they were seen as consequences of an even greater problem: civilization. Doing drugs, having sex, and playing/listening to R&R were their ways of rejecting the establishment all together. Just listen to Timothy Leary.

I can see you disagree with the whole philosophy behind the hippie lifestyle (at least, modern hippies), but that makes no difference to what it stood for. You can object to it all you want, a spade is still a spade.

 

I think timothy leary had a more J.Krishnamurti True Freedom style to he's teaching.

Dropping out is something much bigger than civilization

I think a hippie can have short hair and listen to hip hop

 

it is still waiting, my lovelies, we must channel it!
*sits down and waits with the Hippie Revolution*

 

That is why I say, it is evolution. It keeps evolving...growing

 

moving forward

 

makes alot of sense