Is another Hippie Revolution coming?

This questioned has crossed my mind a lot lately...

With the advent of the "Green Revolution" and clothes beginning to resemble the 60's and 70's more lately it seems like a possibility. Woodstock 2010 is also broadcasting that they are going back to basics this year and promoting the original mantras of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival, "Peace, Love, and Positive Change". To top it all off, you have a world, stricken with social strife caused by global economic collapse, terrorism, wars, famine, disease, etc. This lately has been causing a lot of revolutionaries and revolutionary groups to surface, protest have been increasing, riots are on the rise, etc.

In music I saw something interesting on the net today. A music group called the Fab Four are trying to bring back a group that were perhaps one of the biggest music groups during the sixties, The Beatles. This group looks exactly like the Beatles, dresses like them, sounds somewhat like them, etc.

It seems that the stars too are predicting a coming change...

For many a year now, I have studied astrology, ages and their astrological associations, renaissances, and religious epochs...

First renaissances,

Renaissances happen every sixty years and have happened rather frequently in recent years...

1480's - The Italian Renaissance
1540's - The Age of Exploration
1600's - The English Renaissance
1660's - The Scientific Revolution
1720's - The Age of Enlightenment
1780's - The American Revolution
1840's - Transcendentalist Movement
1900's - Fin de Siecle (End of Cycle)
1960's - The Psychedelic Sixties
2020's - The Awakening <---The next decade...
2080's - The Diaspora

Now on to the ages and their zodiacs...

-Leo: 10,990-8,823 BC - Old Stone Age/Ice Age
-Cancer: 8,823-6,656 BC - New Stone Age (Farming)
-Gemini: 6,656-4,489 BC - Copper Age (City Building)
-Taurus: 4,489-2,322 BC - Bronze Age/Golden Age (Cattle)
-Aries: 2,322-155 BC - Iron Age/Age of Heroes (Classical)
-Pisces: 155 BC-2012 AD - Roman/Christian Era (Dark Ages 450-1450)
-Aquarius: 2012-4179 AD - Space Age: Galactic Diaspora

A new age is dawning...

While I do not believe the doom and gloom stories about the end of the earth on December 21st, 2012...one things is certain...A new age is coming. I find it curious that the Mayan and Chinese calendars end in 2012. The Mayan calendar in particular completes its 13 Bak'tun cycles and the age we live in now will end. In 2012 we will enter the Age of Aquarius. Now, the hippies of the 1960's believed that they were living in that age. With the Age of Aquarius about to begin and a coming global "Awakening" or renaissance in the 2020's I'm beginning to wonder...could this transition into a new age spark a new way of life similar to what happened with the hippies? I talked to a friend of mine named Dawn Gunn who holds to her hippie ways to this day. I asked her did she see a change coming like what happened with the hippie revolution started. I asked her did she think a way of life like that would resurface. Her and I both believe that is has to go back to that. Our way of life now is not sustainable and in the world around us we see signs that a big change could happen. Will we see an explosion of music, arts, and culture? Time will tell but for now be prepared...

The Age of Aquarius is coming...

 

Why would it be a hippie revolution if another so called "Renaissance" came? You can also easily argue that the true cultural revolutions in the last century came during the 1940s (End of Global Warfare, the fall (or gradual fall) of the last remaining major empires, and the beginnings of Globalization, Emergence of Beat movement and prominence of modernism in literature, key social changes to women's and black rights that would pave the path to the social changes of the 60s, and so on. The 60s are rather inconsequential in world history compared to the 40... if not to say the 90s with the emergence of the Internet and the absolutely complete globalization of everything).

If there is indeed another Renaissance or revolution then it will have nothing to do with hippies in the first place. It will probably be an anti-liberal renaissance that rejects the extremely moral ambiguity of today's world and establishes a more structured environment which would give rise to more defined and less homogeneous culture.

 

All I'm saying is I believe that a "Back to nature, back to basics, back to the garden" type change could occur...Similar to what happened with them.

 

Why?

All indicators point towards society moving away from nature and brutally destroying it.

 

I guess anything can happen, but ripping off the Beatles is seriously nothing new...

 

peace, love, truth and beauty viva la revolution

 

Wouldn't if be great if it were true.

The original hippie era was a reaction to 20 years of right-wing conformity. We have now endured 30 years of right-wing conformity in this era, and there is no sign of that the squares are about to give up. They learned from the first time not to give up power.

Yes, there is a change coming. Economic and environmental collapse are immanent. If anyone survives it, it will be back-to-the-land types that hippies might recognize. If.

 

I can't speak in regards to back to the garden or cultural change but you must not be very much into electronic music or many of today's artists. There is wildly imaginative organic electronic music today that The Beatles could not have even imagined and lots of very cool artwork out there on the net.

I think were actually splitting in two directions but im not sure if its correlating with ancient calendars. I think the movie Avatar is really where we are at culturally. Its a big budget movie that has all this amazing technology but the heart of the movie is a return to something simpler and better understanding of the world around us. I think the resolvement of that issue is what we need to advance. Were not going to fully return to a primitive lifestyle and we can see the problems and impending doom if we keep pushing are current one, it has to be met somewhere in the middle I think.

 

I agree.

Culturally, we are into spending millions of dollars on movies and billions of dollars on movie tickets, so we can get inspired to go online and talk about it while letting everything else go to hell.

 

where's Wuji.

I think you are half correct with the "back to nature thing". cuz what needs to be done is giant realizations with the population that all these politics that are being done and these economies we try to hold up are absolutely sinking ships whatever we do with them (besides getting rid of them entirely). Of course we're gonna go back to nature, cuz this system we're in now is a sinking ship.

But I say that you are only half correct because "going back to nature" doesn't necessarily mean to get rid of technology. This revolution would be to start having technology working with nature

People need to realize that these monetary, political, and economical systems that they are supporting will always perpetually fight against it itself. People need to realize that things are not put into place because of these systems.

I've been advocating these ideals since before i signed up on HF, and I cannot think of any other revolution to truly change the human race besides this.

The main skeleton of these ideals are demonstrated in the movie Zeitgeist Addendum. i highly suggest it and its free. you may disagree with some things as I do a few things. but I solely think this is the next landmark revolution. And it will not happen until a big depression will hit us when people will start looking for alternatives.

(but of course the depression wouldnt be as the Great Depression in the 30's because we have more enhanced technology on our side but that's another topic.)


The Revolution already started. you saw it in the news a while back when people were protesting money.

 

uhm no..

 

another conservative... :toetap05:


do i have to get violent? :elf:

 

I say another social revolution is coming. The ideas I hold are equally as radical today as they were 40 years ago; 40 years before that people would think I'm insane! Society does not evolve at an even predictable rate, It evolves suddenly. It's like two tectonic plates pressing against each other, the longer you go without an earth quake the bigger the quake will be when it does happen. If 2012 is the age of Aquarius we have nothing to worry about! It about time my fellow Aquarius's are in charge of the cosmic ball game!

 

Hm. All interesting viewpoints. I sort of agree with boguskyle. When I say "back to nature, back to the garden" obviously we cant go to the extreme with that because the earth has simply become too advance but I do think that the "Green Revolution" and "sustainable development" are going to take us somewhat in that direction.

 

When you say we can't go there because "the earth has simply become too advance[d]", I think what you are saying is that we will try to choose not to go there willingly because we don't want to give up our toys. The reality is that the earth will drag us there kicking and screaming because it cannot sustain our toy-based lifestyles.

As for the "green revolution", it is based on petroleum fuels, mineral fertilizers, and global transportation, none of which are sustainable. So-called "sustainable development" is not sustainable. Not sustainable means that it will end catastrophically unless we end it intentionally.

"Back to the garden" is the only thing that can be sustainable.

 

I can see something like that happening on a much smaller scale. I think with all the negative crap going on lately people are finally beginning to realize that we need to take care of our planet and each other instead of screwing everyone over for personal gain. There's already a big "save the planet" movement going on.

I think it's hard now for something to get as big as the hippies were in the 60's because it's harder for news to reach everyone now and for one thing to get huge. All that stuff is more underground now. There are still protests, music festivals, and people who reject mainstream ideals.

 

Yeah because the wired telephones and smoke signals were a much more effective means of communication than the internet and texting.

 

Nah, I just mean that the internet makes it easier for everyone to get into different things and therefore it might be harder now to unify everyone into one type of "hippie revolution". Everyone's kind of in their own specific group now.

 

i would love to go back to the land. Sadly, i don't feel another one will happen again

 

I dig what Rainbow is saying. The internet, texting and such has caused fragmentation that didn't exist 40 years ago. But I also think the every 60 years renaissance theory is correct, we are not 45 years too late, just 15 years too early.