Hippies in the 60's, going to happen again?

Do you think hippies are ever going to be as prevelent as they were in the 60's?Do you think that magic will ever happen again (Anti-war anthems being played on the radio, woodstock-like festivals, the entire counterculture.)? I'm not sure. I know there are still hippies like me left cause of the existance of this website, but honestly, i think it depends on how long this war lasts.

 

how many of these threads must we get? the answer is always no. our generation is too apathetic and there is no strong bond like there was back then. sorry man, but untill kids start waking up, nothing will change. i know im being a bit negative, but as a high schooler, there is very little we can do.

 

the answers a definate yes, but, not exactly how it was
its a total new generation, new evolution
its growing and happening
will it be like the 60's, probably not
but it will be

 

i think it could happen but we have to vigilant against fake and plastic hippies cuz the public confuses us and them and then says the hippies are this and weren't not this, we're that

 

history repeats itself.

 

I think it might..but with a different version of the old hippies..our young people have their own ideas of what being a hippie is...and they will be the ones to usher in the new hippie era

 

i hope not........if our generation does something i want it to be our own, something new, not trying to do what others already did. I really want our generation to stand for osmething of course, i just dont want people to try and relive something that happened 40 years ago thats just dumb, we have our own minds we should use them.

 

It won't be exactly like it was in the 1960s because the 'Hippie Movement' was up against the 'Draft' & the red-necked older generation that thought anyone with long hair posed a threat of communist subversion.

Those days have gone but the 'Fascists' still remain in power in the U.S.A.
(As Frank Zappa pointed out in the 1980s).

I think that the Hippies could return into the limelight- linked strongly to the 'Green movement/Save the Planet'.
It needs a strongly idealistic youth movement that is prepared to mobilize in large numbers as was in the sixties.

 

Yes, I think something similar to what happened in the 60's is starting to happen right now.

The way things are gearing up right now, with democracy rallies being held wolrdwide, people standing up against goverment oppresion to defend their eroding individual rights, these are examples that we are in the very early stages of something big.

The way the timing has worked out so far, I would say that we will have a new social revolution in the first half of the next decade.

 

I'd agree with that.

First, what is a Hippie? If it's the clothes, music, etc - the appearance of a 60's hippy, then except for fashion stealing bits here and there I don't think it will happen. If it's the issues such as anti-war, getting back to the land, etc., then I think it is already gradually happening.

If the younger, more vigorous generations will take the lead, I think they'll get an amazing amount of support from us old worn-out hippies.

 

i really hope sooo man. it's about time our generation stands up and says, " This is crazy, lets do something aboout it!!!"

 

I don't think it'll ever been seen again as it was some 30-40 years ago largely because technology is conducive to the spread of many different subcultures, including a bit of a re-spawning of the hippy movement. Simply stated, the world is too subculturally diverse to ever again have a new "big" movement that attracts a large part of the population of youths. The most comparable movement is the "hip-hop" movement, which still fails to win over a significant percentage and is on par with (and maybe even behind) the youth reversion to formerly mainstream music. The 2000s (and probably onward) will be known as the "no particular direction" age. The US may be experiencing a bit of a shift to the political left in response to the Bush Administration, but to think that dissent will manifest in a new and widespread youth subculture is quixotic at best.

 

History repeats itself in a general sense, but the specifics do not repeat.

The Hippy died in 1967, the funeral was in San Francisco, perhaps you read about it.

Even those thinking today that they are hippies and are trying to revive or revitalize some movement are fooling themselves. At best you are Mannerist imitators. Not that that is a bad thing...there is much that was admirable about hippies and what they/we represented. The lifestyle has its attractions. But it's over.

There are still leftists, pacificists, "La Vie Bohême", etc. Concern for humanity, for the Earth, none of that is dead.

All of this continues...and it was going on before the 60's, but I don't see how we can wish for the "Hippies" to return any more reasonably than we might wish to see again the "Generación de 98" or the Renaissance.

 

P.S.: Grunge is also dead....see how it works?

 

I'm not sure if it's going to but I think it would be cool if it did.

 

Like Nietzsche said, the higher man creates his own values. The sixties period wasn't all flowers and peace.

There was a crash pad ethic at the time where hip householders often opened up their homes or rural property to young travellers, but they got burned often enough by their guests that the habit died out. Same happened with hitchhiking. There was also a fair amount of violence floating around within the counterculture, even at the best of times. And people got tired of young dropouts on every street corner singing out, "Spare change? Spare change?"

So, the same dropouts who were out begging for spare change eventually got tired of living on the street, and got jobs. Living on the street ain't all that romantic when you get right down to it. Most of the dropouts had to clean up, more or less, in order to find decent work. They had to drop in again after being hungry, cold, without shelter, and un-loved (in many cases) for too long. Some of us did some hard time for dealing dope.

Communes had a variety of fates. Some were tightly controlled by their owners, organized their finances, and survived quite a while. Others were torn apart by property fights, group sex issues, invasions by hostile hippie/biker elements, or law enforcement. Some are still around and doing just fine, thank you. See WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) on the internet (Google search).

As for the older generation (I was born in '47), we aren't as photogenic as seventeen year olds, and if we find ourselves on the street, we become quite invisible. People will step over us and around us if we get ill and fall down on the sidewalk. We have to look to our families for friendship and support, if we have families.

 

Right on, Dirty dog:

I was born in 49. Saw the "Love in's" on the west coast and the communes.
I was visiting a commune in the Redwoods of Calif. Seemed cool. Called them selves "the family". Pretty laid back.
But when you woke up in the morning after after all night smoke out , they were eating food commodities, a free food, welfare food program in California in those days.
Later that day the Sheriff stopped by with a complaint of a neighbors fire wood being stolen. The leader of "the family" went on a rage, hey man your just fucking with us cause we're long hairs, etc...
Well the neighbor was getting tired of all his fire wood getting ripped off, so he started marking every piece.
I woke up that day, these folks were so busy being cool or stoned, they couldn't take care of their basic needs, lazy?
I saw communes that were successful, usually they were headed up by older folks, if you stayed there you worked. If that didn't suit you, you weren't there too long. I think a lot of the kids were looking for parents to take charge and be more tolerant than their own parents.
Granted I live in a little town in bum fuck Alaska, the kids I see here dont have what it takes to hit the road or fight for an ideal or would starve if mom didn't cook them a meal, or god forbid, they got their Visa card taken away.
.....................................Alaskan...........................

 

nothing ever happens exactly the same way twice, did it the first time ever quite as any history book will ever tell it. yet there are cyclic social phenomina, and i think some of that spirit and magic, not a mere recycling but a fresh burst of it, is in many ways happining now. the positive response in mainstream media didn't happen then either. far from it. we were branded with the label hippies, by the mainstream media, not out of honor, but in an attempt to discredit and riddicule!

the magic is always there. the numbers of us drawing on it waxes and waines somewhat less predictably as the moon, but sometimes nearly as often.

so there is neither cause for dispair, nor on the other extreme, to sit back and assume everyone else will do the thinking and risking and self sacraficing.

it is a time when there is the work to do of making it happen.

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I Guess In My View The Hippies Never Really Died
It Is Still Alive But In Diffrent Ways

 

I think people are too obsessed with money to fight for anything.