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

hip hop hippys

 

I agree with what some of the others have said already..I believe the late 60s popular culture such as - freedom to express our true selves, tolerance, fighting for peace, connecting back with nature, environmentalism etc in our current western cultures are still echoes from that 60s movement. And eastern spiritual interests too such yoga, Buddhism, meditation etc have all continued to grow in popularity from then to the present day…so I think we can say a “well done guys” for introducing these things in what’s now become so much bigger we can almost call it mainstream…

 

Okay I think maybe “fight” was read a little too literally, it’s late here. Yea I actually have that book, I bought it about 20 years ago! I was massively into 60s culture as a teenager,having come from 60s parents

 

Every now and then this thread gets resurrected. Last time I posted in it, Trump was still the Prez and the election was two months away. We kicked him out, changing the world once again, but the very fact that he was elected shows the ideals we fought for in the 60s were castles made of sand. The hippies received a lot of backlash, and now that same backlash is directed toward liberals, progressives, so-called elitists, etc. I just got back from a road trip and still saw some Trump 2020 signs posted here and there. Change the world? Good luck with that, much of the world will not be changed.

 

We didn't put a deadline on getting it done.

 

To add to Zen's comment, recall the immortal words of John Lennon: "Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity".
We did the best we could, though. As another of the old hippies, thank you!

 

Well, he was an awesome man! He definitely knew the score..
I was in many civil rights matches, and when our first black president was elected, I knew that those were not in vain. We did make a difference. Our children were raised to carry on with the changes as well.
Could we have some better? Probably. But I do believe we made some difference.

 

We tried fucking for peace. That didn't work either.

 

"I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I'll leave it up to you"

No don't leave it up to me. I don't know what to do either.

Except, "Be the change you want to see in the world" -Ghandi

 

I think I did a decent job of raising my kids to be able to think for themselves, which to me is good enough. When they were young and they asked me about god--I told them that they would have to decide for themselves about that. When it came to politics, I told them the same thing. Just listen and learn as you go along. Turns out they are not quite as strongly left as I, but after living their lives into their 40s they are almost as such. I find that pleasurable.

I was raised around people that were racist and right wing. Ha ha--fooled them! As far as changing the world--you do what you can do as you go along. I hope I did in some ways.

 

When Max Planck discovered quantum mechanics, he begged his collages to explain the joke, but nobody could. After fifteen years of research I discovered the answer is that time is paradoxical and metaphorical, but all of modern civilization is based on treating time as if it were a machine. Beer and arithmetic made modern civilization possible, but the entire planet has always treated time as if it were merely a Rube Goldberg device that makes some sort of sense, because that's how you make money. To accept reality, we must first embrace the dream, or things get weird fast. The cultural revolution was merely the first clear sign the shit is hitting the fan, because the time is just never what you think it is, until that time rolls round again.

Its networking systems logics, that require decades of study to even begin to comprehend.

 

Well, sometimes it does...after an argument, for example.

 

Yes but it never helped with world peace. But it was a lot of fun failing.

 

And don't forget the Fuck for Peace sign: