New and Old Hippies. The Beginnings Times for the New Future Movement.

I beleive it was sly stone who had said "But you must dig that it is not a fashion in the first place, it's a feeling, and if you felt it once, You can feel it again"

 

Those were intended to be rhetorical questions. We elders need to challenge the young hippies to think about these issues. I'm not sure that a pep-talk is a helpful answer for them.

They, the young hippies who may be obsessing about what clothes to wear or whether they need to smoke dope need to think about whether peace is important to them. If it is, they need to think about how to manifest it, first in themselves, and then in those around them. They need to think about what it means to help a neighbour. They need to think about how to get along with someone they dislike. They need to put down the keyboard and have relationships in the real world.

They need to consider the environmental consequences of their lifestyles. They need to think about what it means to live sustainably. What does sustainability actually mean?

I don't think "just do it" is a good answer to those questions.

How about it, young hippies? What do you think about those issues? Do you think about them?

 

^the sustainability of my rubbish and treats is an issue of a bit of shame

I really don't think I could join a commune if it were unethical for me to buy my shampoo

I'm nowhere near the yuppy that some of my cooler friends are, but it's not easy to find stuff you like in this growth-driven market

 

Looks do not make a person, The soul does.

As a 'young hippie' I could give a shit about how others think I look, If I like what I'm wearing why should it matter? Granted, I do look a little 60's or 70's. So they all call me" that stoner hippie" anyways. And I don't do drugs either. For me, it's about peace and love for your fellow brothers and sisters, If I dislike you, or what you're saying I will either drop what I'm saying, Unless its something i strongly believe in, Or I'll simply state something along the lines of "to each his own" and go talk to someone I'm compadible with.

I do consider the affects of my lifestyle on the planet, I feel bad that I'm not as eco-friendly as I'd like to be, But if it's something I don't need that will only make my life a convince and the future of the planet that much worse I wont use, I'd rather suffer vs. our planet. Wouldn't you?

 

Yeessssss!
Lets do this shit man!
Making a positive change in the world is a dream of minee!

 

mine too!

 

To me these guys are Heroes Take the time to check out this full length video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazUh0Ym8rc"]YouTube - ‪The Yes Men Fix The World, P2P Edition FULL MOVIE (2009) (HQ)‬‏

These guys almost make me want to shave and cut my hair.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

i am an old-style hippie and always will be one. starting a new movement on already exsisting cultural ethics is an excercise in redundancy. this is my philosophy--why fix what's not broken; i take what i learned in the woodstock era and apply it to contemporary conditions. it works more efficiently than one might think. what the kids nowadays consider "hippies" are actually what my kids call "stoners." their only connection with hippie culture is their ravenous desire for gettin high. my advice for those of the current generation who desire to be true, authentic hippies is to latch on to an original one and learn all you can from him/her. nuff said. paisley skye.

 

Well unless a certain prick who shall remain nameless liberated me of my album I have [had] this very album (that's VINYL to you kids that NEVER heard of 8 tracks) of Scorpio Kenny.
The Alice's Restaurant song/ballad/story of Officer Obie, a VW microbus and half a ton of garbage at the bottom of a cliff just outside of Stockbridge Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day about 40 years ago. And the 8x10 glossy photographs with the circles and arrows and the seeing eye dog but none of that mattered since the judge was blind as a bat.....

I'm up for a new movement just so long as I can keep my black guns and ammo and my trucks.:2thumbsup:

 

Are we now a new group of new and old hippies? :sunny:

Are we the new core group? Here and Now.​

How many of us are seriously here. Dedicated and (WE)?

Just check in and announce your forums name. No comment is needed unless you want to state how Dedicated you are.

Sign in.
Scorpio kenny is here. :sunny:

 

I already live my life in an independent way, tangential to most ideals of modern American society. I don't 'look' like a hippy of the old days. I dress in traditional men's clothes: button down shirt, jeans/khakis, and hiking boots. I have a standard men's haircut. You would not know my extremely different views on things unless you got started talking to me.

That is the problem. I am living my personal life in the way I think society should move towards (well, I try. I am a flawed human like anyone else!), but no one knows it besides my few close friends. There just doesn't seem like an organized effort like the hippy movement from the 60s.

 

I hear you.
And that is exactly the question at hand, here in this space.

Should some of us care to come together and get to be a tight group and possibly become a catalyst for others to get together with?

Shall we include you and list your forum name as being a part of our experimental group, here?

The whole hippie thing in the 60s started out as a few small bands of people. These attracted others. And so are WE.

 

may we all incite revolution

 

Rather than being just me, I want to be WE.

 

REVOLUTION!!!

Where is fire of youth? Where is the passion of a generation forgotten and abandoned? Where is the boundless optimism that gave us the strength to change the fate of nations? Where is the "can do" attitude that made us try and try again regardless of the hope of victory?

It has disappeared under a tide of cynicism, apathy and self-deprecation. The generation that I am ashamed to call myself a part of has no drive and no ambition beyond their own selfish interests. They care nothing about forming their own opinions and living the way they truly want to live.

They lose themselves in a wave of technology which they bury themselves in, forgetting the world around them. We should be using that technology to benefit our lives, not to define us. As ironic as it is to say this on a forum, no movement can truly begin over the internet. Communities are formed through real, physical relationships.

I can't believe that in the 1960s, when the human race began to explore an entirely new way of living, the pinacle of our spiritual evolution, and then threw it away. The government labelled the movement as a danger to their society, when in fact it was a danger to the society that they had built to suit their own needs. And the people believed them, and reversed the greatest revolution in the mind in human history, reducing it to a passing fashion.

Let us start anew, based on the principles of the original hippies, yet learning from their mistakes. We must rally behind a cause, a movement, or a need. We must create a new community of hippies, not just over the internet but in our towns and cities. Our generation does not have the grand causes of the original hippies to gather behind (the civil rights movement) but that doesn't mean we have nothing. The legalization of marijuana is a start, as it the fight against the ignorance of our current crop of politicans (eg. the Tea Party movement).

But remember, this is a revolution of the mind, a revolution in thinking. Educate people to the hippie movement and the truth of our philosophy. We are not just a bunch of stoners as some would label us. Attract more people to the movement, and let yourselves be known to other hippies. Gather together, and let yourselves be known!

Every generation needs a new revolution - Thomas Jefferson

 

Well partner I got me a good dependable truck with room for 1 passenger.
I figure since Scorpio Kenny was the original poster he should get the honor of riding shotgun. If I keep it under 60 on the 5 I get 20MPG. I got a killer 290 watts per channel 6 disk changer w/6 speakers. There are few things I enjoy more than toolin' down the highway with Canned Heat screaming ass loud or The White Album cranked up too. :sunny:

During the last 24+years I amassed a poopload of camping gear. Eighty five percent of it is reminiscent of the Fur Trade Era. We're talking white canvas Wedge tent, Lodgepole pine poles, airtight wood stove for cooking and heat, candle lanterns for evening illumination and some comfy handmade chairs for sitting/passing out in. All you gotta do is go 50-50 on gas, grub, ice, the occasional campground fees and the occasional 1/2 oz or so.

All I ask is that you're straight with me. I understand the occasional need for a white lie to spare someones feelings or when dealing with The Man. But for the important stuff I'm into the Truth and nuttin' but the Truth. I believe that Jesus Christ died on a cross to save mankind's souls but I'm not a Bible thumper. Tho from time to time I love to get down on my harmonica with country folks playing traditional old time hymns and or plain old bluegrass music. Then again if we come across the Rainbow Family having a drum circle we WILL be stopping for the night or 2 or 4 and jammin' till our ears are bleeding. Or perhaps we will stop just b4 we need eye glasses (if you catch my drift). I wouldn't mind getting down into The Bunny Ranch outside of Vegas for a couple drinks just so I could tell my kin "I was THERE!!" Mind you now there AIN'T NO WAY I'm dropping a grand for a couple or 3 hours with a drop dead gorgeous hooker (like Air Force Annie!!) when I might spot a plain old down home country gal and do a lil bit of sparkin' and see what happens....

I was on a trip to the American SW when I was maybe 5 or 6 years old but I don't hardly remember it. Plus I don't much care for driving around big cities. Seattle is plenty big enuf but we are N O T going to LA county. Humboldt county is a definite destination as I have heard the best weed in America comes from there. Plus there is a pretty tasty brown brew made from Hemp made locally. I figure it's gotta be cheaper buying it at the source....couple cases anyway....

Well I got a mid term test tomorrow so I gots to go crack the books. Ya'll take care now.....somebody here smoke a big fat hooter for me 2nite huh??!!?

:sunny:

 

I'll be part of this group here starting a movement, but i don't think it can start over the internet. So everyone just move to nebraska and we'll start it here! Naw, i'm kiddin. But it does have to be in a tangible place with real interactions.

 

I don't think we all need to get together, It would be fantastic if we did, but It doesn't seem to be a necessity, I think we could do this in our towns, get the people we know interested, then the ones they know, then who they know and so on.

 

^do *what*?

no sarcasm intended, what are we uniting on here?

 

Start a new revolution?