Modern Day Hippies Vs 60S/70S

The truth, in one post. The spirit lives on with the real ones with it in their heart...Much has been lost to the heartlessness toward others in modern times. We don't battle the Establishment now, we kiss its ass.

 

Free love! Omg... I mentioned this on another site to a woman a bit older than me, we were talking about the old days, and she said "hell no, free love is gone baby, dream on, motherfucker! That's our modern world for ya.

 

This is usually where I post a link to this thread:

https://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/386073-an-open-letter-to-young-hippies/?hl=%2Bopen+%2Bletter+%2Byoung+%2Bhippies

Granted it's a 7 year old thread I still pretty much feel the same way now as I did then. It seems to me that the old school hippies were about forward movement, moving society forward etc. Whereas todays hippies are more about trying to romanticize a past that they weren't part of looking through rose colored glasses.

Funny story. A kid in a tie dyed t-shirt offered me free acid. I turned him down telling him that I don't take acid from strangers. To me now it is too risky. You don't know their source and generally I don't trust "Chemists". It kind of reminds me of this:

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Then again I also love this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U

C/S,
Rev J

 

I want to clean their room so bad.

This thread reminds me of the time my friend had her purse stolen by someone at a Bob Weir and Ratdog show. We hung out with them all night and shared our weed and our friendship and they dicked us over. So much for that communal hippie spirit. Never really cared for my generation's hippie culture after that

The mess in that picture is really bothering me lol

 

The mess is bad, but the green paint bothers me more.

 

Yeah its awful

Such an awful stereotype of stoners. Some stoners are very clean and have a good eye for color

 

Keep romanticizing. Overblown egos are of all times. And far from every one these days has one. Its not that black and white

 

Since you know everything Asmo, go write a book. But don't call it Love, Live and Learn.

Instead call it Judge, Jury and Jerk. It's unfortunate. I know some who lived the hippie culture...they too are jerks. And proud.

Did you not get the government entitlements you felt entitled too?

Maybe, as one who seems to act as a "guide" here, you should lead our "romanticizing" by example instead of casting crows.

Ciao.

 

Asmo- you're 35 years old!

BLA-HAHAHAHA...you old hippie.

You were born the day I graduated from High School!

Damn that's funny...and you're preaching to me about hippies.

That's the funniest!

 

Here in the UK 'freak' was the word, at least in the 70's.That's how I thought of myself when I was around 20. Back in the 60's used to hear about hippies in the media, seee hippie bands on TV, but I was a bit young for the 60's, although my sympathies definitely lay with those long haired folks by whatever name.

In the late 70's when punk emerged as the new youth culture/style, the word 'hippie' had a bit of a renaissance - the punks used it in a disparaging way to criticize those they sought to replace. Also later on other groups such as 'new age travellers' were dubbed 'hippie' by the media, but they were a long way from the original hippie spirit or ideal in many ways.

Now the term has become a bit amorphous and used mainly to indicate certain styles of dress, but not much more than that.

 

I don't know how you would define what a hippie is. I mean is it just one who does not cut their hair and listens to certain music? Do I need to smoke a lot of pot and live in a VW bus only?

For me it's just going on my own way and being in tune with the world. Maybe if I am lucky and work hard at it I can cause some change in my own corner of reality. Because I do think the way a lot of people live is wrong. Well wrong is not the right word but they could do some things to better live in harmony with the earth and their fellow man. Isn't that what it's always been about?

I enjoy a lot of things that the traditional hippie would not. But when I look back at what went on in the 60's and 70's I think they had the right idea.

I can and don't really see the need for one. I only have one because they are about the only phone you can buy now.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaJ69R7jfro&list=PLC1121B50B1E7D14A


I had this album when I was a kid about 13.....
prolly explains a lot... :unsure:

 

13? Shit dude I remember being at least 4 and hearing Dr. Hook doing that tune on "Sloppy Seconds" I'm pretty sure my dad still has it on vinyl. I'd say kids don't know what that is anymore but it seems to be making a comeback.

C/S,
Rev J

 

It all depends on how many brain cells have been destroyed and that being said I have one left...a big one that just kind of floats around my skull and chips away...

 

You Sound Like A "Smoke Alarm" With A Flat Battery......



Cheers Glen.

 

This may be accurate my friend.

 

I don't know that I love coffee...but it was a habit for me.....but it always had to be light and sweeet........very light and sweet....I do like coffee flavored ice cream....

 

but you carry it so well, dahlink!