I thought of this a while ago.. I wanted to get a big school bus and go around and collect hippies and tell people what peace is about and get them too and just spread peace and maybe it would work baby.. I'm behind anyone whose ready for a revolution, I don't know why there isn't one yet but I think I can feel it coming, anyone else think so? Or am I just lost in some hippie world that I've created... I'd really like to know hah. Soooo there's a lot of us on this fucking forum for peace, so lets start a fucking revolution!
You see the thing is, people move on. Although a few handful retain their roots, it is like trying to get everyone to revert back to analogue television. What this world needs, is a revolution of peace. To get there we need to continue anti war demos and start filtering into the media scene. With music, tv appearances and our own slots we can send a powerful message. Nowadays we live in a war world. All thanks to George Bush and Tony Blair. Peace is probably needed and most welcomed now than at any other time in this century.
Yes magical fire lady! it's all happening I've been feeling something starting since a few a months ago. I have an unbelievably strong urge to spread love, peace and unity. Peace can happen tomorrow, if you want it. Why doesn't anyone take it??? Why can't we turn the world onto love *right now*! why can't we just go hug random people? why is everyone so cautious of other people? why the fear? why the paranoia? we need to get together and break through this. Our separation is helping the power mongers get more power. I for real know what you're saying. I am a third year biochemistry student and I am on the verge of dropping out because of these feelings. It needs to happen. I can't wait any longer.
This is the true revolution. It's time for the average man to stop buying into corporate bullshit that only benefits a few. It's time to call for oversight and accountability. Time to stop accepting the spiels about how deregulation will give you better services at lower costs. It hasn't happened and I am getting sick of the same arguments being made for keeping the average person down without recourse while corporations are allowed to run rampant and control our lives. It's time for the little man to demand his rights and protections back. I am tired of sacrificing for their bottomline. It's time that the little man drew a line in the sand and protected it.
Why are our concerns like providing a home, security and food for our families less important that adding to their corporate coffers? Why are our lawsuits only seen as frivolous. Why can we be hit by the tax code over and over again, while many of them don't even pay taxes. They feed you shit about "death" taxes, who does it really effect not my family only the really wealthy. They inherit their wealth they don't want to lose any of it. Why shouldn't they...you pay taxes when you win in Reno or Las Vegas don't you? Why shouldn't they pay a small proportion when they inherit from daddy? Who got hit by the Alternative Minimum tax the middle income guy, not the rich folks they got around it. But we helped fund their war. It's time to stand and be counted and be informed.
They tell you that the earned income tax credit is a better motivator than an increase in minimun wage, but what they don't tell you is that currently you would see $1,000.00 less with the EIT than with an increase in minimum wage. They hope that you will be focussed on your tax return next year and not do the math. But only those with dependents can claim it.
Yeah that does suck, but who works for those companies keeping them going? middle class people. If everyone would just turn on we wouldn't have to fight because their palaces would just crumble.
In a bus, huh? Haven't you ever heard of the merry pranksters? they did that. They had a bus named "further" and they took acid and went all over the US. Keasey was brilliant. he wrote books, you should check it out. I'm down! Lets go! But remember my friends, it shouldn't be about the rest of the world.It is about you and your journey. Numbers will come, but you have to have a strong foundation to stand on peace and love
probably one of the best ideas i've heard in this lifetime... i wouldn't consider myself a hippy per se, but peace and love is the foundation of my of my exsistence and purpose on this planet but the key to making this idea work is action we have to put the poetry in motion and be dedicated to the cause if our voices are loud enough someone is bound to hear I'm with you 1000%
Yeah action, action, action. People need to seriously figure out a plan and pursue it. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would fight for peace, love and equality around the world, but not many people are just going to walk around hugging people. I think what needs to happen is we need to get tegether on a local level and just work up the latter. Start with friends and figure out how all of you can do something, then get more people and so on. I seriously want to see this happen...I really can't imagine life being worthwhile without it happening.
yeh its lyk our man above says, live your life in love, people will see it and either will get it or not. if it happens it will take time, revolutions dont generally happen when people are satisfied. and most people are satisfied with their money n houses at the moment. but bring you're bus round my way and i'll jump on
well isnt this like the rainbow family you mean? not so much a revolution but an exodis ..a different kinda revolution one of the heart i mean if people from all nations all cultures all beliefs can hop on a hippy bus and build cities in the woods in harmony with nature, and govern ourselves in the spirit of love and peace, isnt that a global revoluttion?
I wish it was so SoaringEagle, but most comunes don't last long in my experience. They are glorious experiments, but the individual seems to foil the idea.
well its not exactly a commune and has lasted 35 years and spread to every country in the world and being recognized as an indiginouse nation really sets it apart from just a glorios experiment as u put it as for the individual foiling the idea., i dont think any individual can foil the idea if the whole remains committed to the idea the individual can only foil his perception of it or his or her experiences but the idea still remains strong and pure within the whole
I think what the "revolution" needs is to focus less on the war and more on the issues at home. War is horrible, no doubt about it. Ultimatley the most horrible invention of man, but you can't just pull out prematurely after commiting to it without expecting the war to reach our soil.....and when I read stories like this: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/27/national/main2209402.shtml#Post it really seems like no one cares that the constitution is being pissed on.
War is not the only form of hate in society.. People are discriminated against, and people are racist, sexist, and people should just be equal.. Love and peace. *sigh*
I agree but the revolution must be a new revolution not based on old ideals influenced by drugs or music but by new ideals. These ideals must be enforced through politics, ruthless practises and a desire to save this planet and the human race that wont result in economical breakdowns.
I watched this thing on sundance channel last night called "iconoclasts" with maya angelou and dave chapelle and it was pretty enlightening. Maya angelou worked closely with both martin luther king jr and malcom X and she gave an account of tupac shakur who she said was just a regular guy trying to figure things out and how the media porteyed him more as a force to be reckoned with when that was simply and utterly false. The point of all of this is to say (and what she said) that people who are icons are almost lifted to this point where they are not even human, they are seen as something else. What she said is that these people were just people, like the rest of us, but as a society we look at these people as so great, or revolutionary, which they were, but they were more than that: they were just people who saw something they believed in and connected with and they found their niche there. Basically the concept is, if you believe in something, do it. If it is within you, then it is within a lot of people. If you can project that and let it out then you have begun your revolution. It is within all of us to achieve greatness, there are just leaders and followers i suppose. I believe that i am a leader and every good follower with a set of beliefs is therefore also a leader, at least in my eyes. I follow the beliefs of all the strong leaders i look up to. like ghandi, like jesus, like martin luther king jr. The problem is that when you begin to see someone as more than human, say as an icon, then you feel like "less than" rather than "equal to." Hippies have an especially hard image to overcome that has been perpetuated by the media and the government. I am very active in my community speaking out on the things which i do not agree with, but this is perceived as idealism or hippie babble, when really it much more fundamental than people would like to acknowledge. but if you watch things in the context of your own world, it is easy to see that things are changing. People are speaking. The revolution has already begun. People would just like to ignore the fact that it is happening-- it is within us. This is a time much like the 60s with a different face and a different set if issues that are perhaps even more pressing than they were back then. Any researcher will tell you that. Anyone who has half a brain will say things are pretty fucked up... Dance dance dance... as the grateful dead say, "nothing left to do but smile smile smile" Peace and love
