Why do things change?

What happenend to the seventies?? Even the eighties were so much fun! The music was wonderful. I guess it's part of evolving? I guess I ought to go hide under my rock but I will take my cd player and Boston collection. I hate the fads of today. The policing is crazy and it's definitely unjust.

 

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

 

hehe

 

Were just at a low point in pop culture right now. Everything from the 70's and late 60's is still living on around me. Tye dye and a lot of more hippy attributes are out but the music is still in for sure.

 

my point exactly X! Brittany has no depth. Cycle of life I guess???

 

THe music has soooo huch depth to it maybe because, all they had was the music?

 

yeah that rumor has been circulating around awhile. I think she is cute but, she's gotta be self-absorbed and stupid to boot

 

Chalk it up to the second law of thermodynamics (which seems to apply to everything - not just physics). I wouldn't say we are evolving (at least not in any direction I'd consider "forward"). This is just one more phase in a larger dialectic (thesis + antithesis = synthesis). But in this case, it's become impossible to distinguish which is the thesis and which the antithesis... the whole thing has left a bitter tasting synthesis, which of course is now the new thesis (as is always the case).

We are rapidly moving backwards, it seems. I think we liberal Americans would like to say that this is not the direction our forefathers intended, but the more I look at our history, the more in doubt of that I am becoming. In truth, the Monroe Doctrine was very similar to what Bush is doing now - the whole "Strike first" foreign policy we have now is much more along the lines of what we had before WWI forced us to re-examine our ethics and start really trying to work for a more peaceful end. It seems like the truth of the matter is that America, as a national entity is actually behaving more like it usually does (remember the Spanish-American War?). It's sad, but our ideas (that is the liberal ideas) about how our foriegn policy works were actually imported from France along with the Statue of Liberty (which, if you ask the more facist right-leaning members of our society, is some sort of cruel joke played on us by the french).

"Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free..." If GW had his way, we would be erasing those words from the monument as soon as possible, I think.

 

Now I bet you are wondering what that has to do with the popular fads which you are railing against... That is just another part of the corporate "anything that makes money is good" creed that America was founded on (at least according to Alexander Hamilton - IMHO a bad influence, but we're stuck with it).

 

this is why I enjoy coming on here and posting.

 

money money money by the pound!

 

change and diversity are the nature of existence.

empires and tyrannts come and go.

just remember that old yiddish saying:
"they tried to kill us, we survived, let's eat!"

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.../\...

 

This planet is a work in progress. Not everyone loved the 70's.

What if progress had stopped back in Victorian times instead? 90% of the people here would be locked in asylums getting bled out and blistered to "cure" us.

 

i'll take the 70s, 60s or even 50s over the 80s any day. and i'll take the years from 67 through about 73/74 (minus viet name and the demise of the railroad opperated passinger train and the pcc trolly) over anything since (other then personal computers and this internet, which as far as i can see are the only GOOD things to have) come along since.

but i would certainly not want to be stuck in any one decade for ever either.

but the reason i'm quoting and responding to dasey mae's post is that, and no ill will to you or anything else you've said, i just wanted to let you (das. m.) know, i feel these are the truest words i've ever seen you post on hip forums in as long as we've both been on here

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.../\...

 

i prefer 2001-2001

 

what do mean "things have changed"?

*continues to eat her pop rocks while wearing a neon green shirt, stirrup stretch pants, and a pink lace headband tied into a bow as Beverly Hills Cop plays on the tv*


ohhhhhh, this movie is so radical

 

everyone bitches about the times during those times but then later miss them.
P.S. The eighties sucked, I'm glad I am too young to have experienced all that weird ass shit.

 

I was just saying, I suppose you have a point but, This post wasnt intended for such seriousness. Have a good day

 

hahahhaa..... beautiful.
i do remember those stirrup stretch pants, too. *shiver*
and ponytails tied on the side of your head?

 

I'll tell you what happend to the seventies.................... the beatle ( I think) wanted to throw a free concert hired hells angels for security ( bad idea.) a fight broke out the H.A made it worse and in the end killed several people. Thats what happend to the seventies.