We were gonna change the world...what happened?

Oh no, it was so much more than that! As Skeeter said:

 

don't anyone lose heart, i'm still tryin to change the world, join me....be yourself, you do more than you know just by being who you really are. (message to myself too).

 

howdy folks, your all bright beautiful rainbows, if you've never been to a rainbow gathering I sure do suggest you go. It'll really charge up the ole spirits and you could order a rainbow guide just look for the post on the rainbow forum. The hippies started the ball rolling on all kinds of good stuff, how about meditation? yoga? organic food has something like a 15 to 20 percent share of food sales I just read somewhere a while back. The laws against pot have loosened up considerably, a couple years ago I got busted for smoking a joint in a bus shelter and they gave me a ticket which cost 90$ back in 68 I might have got prison time or at least probation. How about co-ops thier all over. I read "Hearts in Atlantis", by Stephen King a couple years ago and in about the last paragraph of the book its says something to the effect that if you look close the magics still around. Keep the faith folks you are loved.

 

There is alot of things that came out of the movement in the 60's as you said blu raven. People are more aware of the environment thanks to organisations such as Greenpeace, about what food they are eating and also more acceptable of people who look different. There is however, an awful lot more that needs to be changed.

 

Hello everyone,
There are some great truths coming out here.I'd forgotten some of the things that have changed due to alternative thinking.I wonder if mainstream society will ever acknowledge that our existence has in fact made a difference.That'd be something.I still believe that our culture ought to be formally accepted by the establishment.Just recently,I was reading some guidelines which described local laws regarding what is accepted as an act of violence here in Darwin.Not allowing individuals to practice what is a part of their culture is seen as being a breach of that person's rights.In theory we should be able to do anything which is associated with our chosen culture given that we are not harming others,but sadly,that is not the case.I think that this kind of oppression is directly responsible for the way that we sometimes get to feeling.It does leave you with a sense that we've been working for a long time at what we believe,and that there has been little return for those efforts.But I agree with others who have posted a reply here saying that we have in fact manifested some very positive cahnges.
With the work that I do,there are times when I know that it will be difficult to keep going.My backup at times like those are the people I work with.My family at work.That's how I see this site.When I'm in need of support,I come here and read what all of you have to share.And man,I have to say that my spirits are always lifted.
Thanks for making this site available,and thanks for sharing,
Love from me to you.

 

I DO sense another revolution coming, hopefully in my lifetime. But it will be more involved with technology than "all natural"...think Hack-tivism for one...the possibilities are endless.

Sorry I am not an elder hippie, or even a hippie or anything one thing at all. I love the music & just wanted to come see what was on your minds. Some of my family were hippies in the 60s, so I definitely was exposed to the movement young, therefore helping me become the person I am now. And I am just one person who was affected out of many. So do not despair, you DID make changes!!

 

i think that their has inevitably to be some type of revolution coming, or already slightly springing up, but it isn't going to be a hippie revolution. that one already took place and fizzled out. their have been cultural revolutions since humans have been around. the revoultionees back in the sixties just got a name. now the young people of today are more technology based and materialistic and in with the mainstream and i just can't see any real mass of people breaking away from that because it is too close to the hippies and it wouldn't be a revoultion just more hippies sprouting up. so anything that does take place would have to be completely new and dissassociated with hippies.

 

you did change the world

 

Keep trying!!!!!!

I do my part on a small level every day.

But, baby,.....

it ain't easy today!!!

No suh!
but
I keepa trying anyway.

Love.

 

man
a technological revolution is a little far out and would have to have a huge mass of peopel suddenly over ride the system b/c my friend knows people who have like hacked NASA and stuff and after he got out of jail the government hired him to hack NASA as his job and patch up the flaws in the system so its harder to break in so i bet they do it with everyone man. so unless hundred or thousands of peopel at once hacked the system it would be very unlikely

 

We did change the world.. take a look around..

 

But the weeds are growing back ib the garden again. Time to pull some weeds. Now, where's the Bush-hog. ~groan~

 

Change takes generations to come to full fruitation. "we" the old hippies, put the pendelum in motion. Our children and our grandchildren are riding the upswing. My 19 year old granddaughter's thought is that "it has all been done" That there is nothing else new to be done. I wonder if the pendelum is about ready to begin a swing back.
As is the nature of the beast, it will swing many times before the real telling can be considered. The course of life cannot be told except in the reading of history. Don't dispair......"no less than the trees and the stars...

 

Ageinmyeyes.. welcome to the forums and that was a very nice post. I like your style..

 

luvn.. I think we will have to pull that bush up by the roots.. it's seems to have taken hold and is spreading..messing up the Garden..

 

Oh yes, we did put the pendelum in motion. I see the future in my children's, and grandchildren's eyes. The amazing thing is that my chldren don't have the same social taboos to fight, and seem to come at life from a more natural and tribal base than I did. I guess that is the gift I was able to give without realizing it. They are passionate about the things they believe in, and will make a difference, if only in their small circle of influence.

I do see that technology is interwoven in the current social revolution, but the materialism of this current generation, and the selfishness of us all, makes me nostalgic for the idealism of 60's.

 

I have only read the first post, so excuse me if I repeat what others have said or wotnot.

I listen to the lyrics to the Lev songs I listen to all the time and I, though young, wonder what happened myself. I try to make a difference by working for worthwhile causes and crossing t's and dotting I's where appropriate but it just seems to get us no where. But if we do not try we will not achieve anything at all!

Sometimes the world needs waking *cue the song 'Wake the World' by The Levellers*

 

Perhaps the revolution that technology, like the web, will enhance comes from all of the information we have access to now, we can't be isolated, or deluded as easily. With the click of a few buttons we can see a full spectrum of info concerning any one topic and decide for ourselves what we feel the truth is and if we don't take the time to figure it out it's our own fault.

Being responsible for our actions seems to be a big lesson now...how'd we get so many weeds and bushy things in the garden and why do the stores sell all that crap?

I believe in my heart this revolution has been going on since time began, there have always been people who feel the need to control others and there have always been the others that feel they don't need to be controlled. For the most part they slip about planting seeds of inspiration and hope and the movement will never truely come to a stand still because we are determined and where you see one you can bet there are hundreds more . I am one person born of two people with two off spring of my own and we are dedicated to making Compassion our light to shine out onto all that we come into contact with (granted it's a learning process ).

I have a feeling the rest will take care of it's self. The tide always shifts.

 

Over in the Christian section of this forum I have started threads psychedelic drug pushers, The Axis Of Evil That Bush Did Not Talk About, and others, which explain my ideas about your question. I have discovered dates, names, and events that link the original Woodstock festival of 1969 and at least on of the Dead Sea Scrolls, believe it or not! Talk to you later.

 

As a 26 yr old woman, raised by babybooming hippie, take it from me ... you have changed the world. We (the next generation) look to you for support and guidance. Most of us (who were raised as i was) believe in peace, equality and brotherhood. I plan on raising my children with the same morals and standards that i was and we have your generation to thank for that. we look to you for guidance and thanks to you for standing up for what you believe in we have what we want and have the strength to stand up for what we want and believe in.

Don't feel sorry for yourself -- your generation did what you could and we thank you for it.