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

We did change the world. It will never be the same.

 

the music, openness to ideas, movement towards equal rights, expansion of consciousness.

If we all just lived our lives with what we learned, we changed where we are today. If we passed it on to some one else, bonus.

I joined the corporate world in my way and still march to my drum. but you gotta pick your battles. Even for those of us who live in a communal setting-you can't just think about yourself-unless you live in a cave

 

There were the flappers, the beatniks, the greasers, then came the hippies. Now we're going the way of the dinosaurs.Thank God the disco'ers went first. The punks and the rappers and the Wall Street'ers have been taking over. Although the economic collapse may change things again. Every generation wants it's own identity. Even rock & roll is on the way out. Now it's Lady Gaga, Justin Beaber and the Black Eyed Peas. Pot and acid used to be the rage, now it's coke, crack, and meth. I just hope the fascists fade away, they seem to be making a comeback. I think that's why this country is so depressed these days.

 

when thinking about if certain people changed the world, you have to compare it to other certain people and how much they changed the world.

also, i'd expect a hippie to agree with the following: WE ARE ALL ONE..
and that explains a lot, pretty much shoots down any question you can ask about "people"

 

Yanno, whenever I begin looking backwards - I, too sometimes regret the fact that our vision of Utopia was unrealized. Like another poster already offered - "we got busy with life." That about sums up my experiences, too - because a serious compromise was required to simply survive. Once we make one small compromise, those which follow seem easier ... until one day we realize we'd become a part of the same society that we sought to change radically.

Change it we did - however!

Once we set the wheels in motion, we weren't really able to steer the damn thing though.

 

"Life is what happens when you are making plans," John Lennon

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

Yes, "power to the people" can only go so far. We can implement change, but still we need to have certain people (hopefully qualified) to run things, because when everyone's running it then no one's running it.

 

Oh, but how could it be different? You are part of your society. It's your home.

I don't agree, at least not totally. It's not all black and white, though ... there are about a zillion shades of gray, and sometimes you have to look at a particular shade of gray and say "yeah ok, it's white".

 

The best thing that happened to my young soul came from a protest gathering at my small Midwestern University. The speaker was an English prof who lauded us all for being concerned about Viet Nam. He then challenged us to take a look at our own back yard. "Someone somewhere within 5 miles from where we are standing needs us", he said. Someone needs a helping hand, guidance, compassion, maybe old, maybe young. "You wanna change the world and really make a difference, you go find them". That made more sense than anything else I heard at any rally. I always left a protest rally feeling a hunger to see some effect from my actions. Usually I was just another body adding to the count the newspaper reported, if they even bothered.

I volunteered with Children and Family Services the next day. Three little brothers were in foster care for the summer. Before the school year started they were to be split up and placed in orphanages...too old to be adopted at 5, 6 & 7. I was young and full of zeal. I couldn't stop the injustice of war but I could make those little guys happier and safer. They were the first three of 7 sons that I adopted and raised. There were lots of other boys who passed through our home for a few months or years. My 7 seven sons turned into fine young men. Many have their own kids now and are great dads. Some of my boys adopted kids themselves.

The current pointless, winless wars still piss me off. My best hope for maintaining sanity is to keep looking in my back yard. My yard has gotten bigger over time. It now includes a stretch of land along the banks of the Amazon River in Peru where I went to work for the rainforests. Damned ifI didn't come home with a couple more goofy little brothers to raise.

The point is not to say I did a good thing, I know that I did. The point rather is to suggest that we as a generation didn't fail because we didn't stop the war. We didn't change a greed driven society. Many of us did raise fine, caring children who have good values. We have created a ripple effect of values, love and compassion. I'm old enough to fear that I'll never see a peaceful world in my lifetime. I will however see the smiles of healthy kids, grandkids and great-grandkids whose lives I've touched.

Before you waste time saying we as a generation failed look back on what you did. Perhaps you made more of a difference than you give your self credit for. Perhaps there time to add more changes yet.

 

^^I know some of the people within 5 miles that need my help. So I help them. I am an attendant for disabled people. Monday through Friday I hop on BART and help an 8 year old boy with Autism who can't speak. Over the last year I have helped him learn to write by holding his hand and moving it. Now he gets upset if I try to move his hand. Over the last year it is like I am working with a completely different kid. Then Saturday and Sunday I work with 2 Quads getting them in and out of their chairs and fed.

I can't make the world a better place for everyone but I can for those 3 people and it feels good.

Stay Brown,
Rev J

 

That part right there is how the world becomes more humane! You're a good man for that bit of kindness.

 

This topic reminds me of the joke:
How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

One, but first, the light bulb has to want to change.

The same is true of the world.
First the world has to want to change.

The fact is that we did in fact change the world. However, just like mud with a little extra water added, most of the world settled right back down into it's rut.

That's a fact Jack.

 

I still am changing the world one patient, one plant, one person, one animal at a time - I didn't know we 'posta quit? I live in the woods and never hear anything....

 

This year

 

One cannot 'change' the World, one can only change themselves, with changing ones self it causes a ripple effect in the frequency you vibrate on. You can improve ones life and inspire them to 'change' themselves by setting an example. It's in the Giving that one receives.

It makes one happy to help, it gives them a buzz, so to speak, for in the giving and reciving the energy flow is massive and is all inspiring, creating more energy as it intensifies into the Universe of you IDD.

Then the change begins and you 'see' all things that are good and evil and you choose which you will make your own.

To help make the change begin, imagine, it visualize it happening, see it, feel it, live and breath it, become it and it becomes you.

 

+1-that's all can do-I can change myself-then the ripple effect checks in

 

Me, I hide in a closet, and I meditated and AAAUUUUOOOOMMMMMMMMMMed for 17 years and now I'm the most changed and the most wonderful person on the entire planet. It's so wonderful here in this perfect closet.

I'm so awesome by now, and have set such an awesome example for others, that I bet that I have changed hundreds of millions of lives and most of the world by now. It must be an almost perfect Utopia, out there by now. I would venture out of my closet to see how great it is out there but I'm far to comfortable in my own space, and also, I, as I have rid myself of having any ego, don't care to admire my immense accomplishment out there.

Scorpio Kenny
:sunny:

 

In reality, if there is No Action, then there is No Reaction.
Simple physics: Action. = Reaction.

In the Sixties, there was a shit load of Action going. Now there is Absolute Zero, going on.

In the Sixties, there was a shit load of ReAction going. Now there is Absolute Zero, going on.

In physics: You can have Motion, Speed, Acceleration. Or you can have standing still.

Yes, we've changed the world but it is going back to its same ol' use to be.

If we want to change to world today and for the future, then we have to NOW pull together and create a lot of action! A big visual Right Now Today Example that people could react to, and joint in with.

Any sign ups?
I didn't thing so.

 

Sounds like we stopped living?

The only thing I changed in the sixties was me. I got into a life of sex drugs and rock and roll. I didn't volunteer for the green party, become a politician, march for causes

I got a job, got married, a kid

Life marched on.

So now I'm over weight and almost 60, I must be ready to take action

 

the sixties was a perfect storm

the music

lsd and weed

I'm starting to think the 70/80 or so million boomers created it through their spending habits