What Did Hippies Change In The World?

Being a 21 years old boy today, I can see that things now are different from 45 years ago.If this Great Movement born in the early 60's , why didn't grow up so much? What was the real GOAL of the old hippie?

 

It just looks different.

 

Iz not wuz, an iz still newer than new, Long hair an eat plantz not people, thingyz.

 

Hippies have never changed the world. People have.

 

Hippies brought the global warming into the open, and we're still doin' that today! ^^

 

OK!

ah "hippies" really did was give society another fakkin label....

 

In a way, yeah...When something new comes along, society makes a label.

 

No, hippies did sod all...The people made a difference.

 

Hippies didn't do shit. They just smoked a bunch of weed and grew up to be what they hated.

 

Organic food is now available in my grocery store. Meditation is now being offered in mainstream hospital complexes for doctors and patients who need stress reduction techniques. I now think homemade clothes are cooler than ones with a 'hot' lable...the list goes on.
It takes a long, long time for any real change to become apparent and most of the time it is not noticed until it's already happened. What we saw in the 60's and 70's was just the begining, you ain't seen nothing yet you gotta infiltrate, They assasinate anyone who stands out, so sure it's gonna seem like nothingmuch is happening when there is really all kinds of stuff going on the DL.

That's mah hypothesis any way...

 

To original Hippies...

My opinion is that today we have the freedom to do and to be what we want.The problem is that society can get profit on us in so many things in such manner that we cannot realize it so clearly.I think this is the main problem. But instead of set us fully against the society and protest in a such pronounced manner against GOVERNAMENTS, LAWS, STATES, POLITICIANS, i'm sure there are others clever manners to get profit on this for our selves. If someone is well informed,knows how things go in the world, he can as well exclude his self from the rest of the common people.
I can work, I can eat, I can use my spare time, I can love nature but still being "part of the society" only from the external point of view of the rest of people. But does it really matter?
For war and capitalism actions I fully agree to what you did in the 60's for Vietnam,but did that really change something?
And last question..Why in the 60's everything came out suddently at the same time ..MUSIC,DROGS,BEING PRIMITIVE,BEING ARTIST,PROTEST,GO AGAINST EVERYTHING...and why all this in so radical manner ??

Thank you any way for reading

 

sex is now different

 

The goal of the hippies was to enjoy music get stoned and forget about social pressures to conformj. At first it seemed like a good idea but then they realised that most people actually had to get money to feed themselves and put a roof over their head.
Although hippie communities sprang up they found that their dream became a nightmare when the hippies travelled to the East got addicted to Heroin and brought the heroin culture to the west. Although their political aims were noble, their inability to throw off the bourgeois condition of being addicted meant that their decadence led to a politically impotent force and they were superceded (IN THE UK) by the punk movement which took stimulant drugs rather than opiates and declared themselves anarchists rather than communists - in the uk punks radicalised society a lot more than the hippy culture did. Hippydom was a fashion - punk was a political force and did not suffer the same fate but merely became redundant after thatcher left office.

 

punkz are nowear wit dare dumn tattooz and no Hair.

 

Punk did become a huge fashion show! And it still is.....


Hippies brought a lot of awareness to the stage: Gay rights, Environmental concerns, Women's equality, Eastern methods in medicine, civil rights.
The punks continues the legacy with a bit more fervor. It was just a changing time....if you listen to a punk song, you will hear the same sentiments you will from a hippie, albeit in about a minute and a half! If you dont belive me, put in any Pennywise cd and prove me wrong!