God why wasnt I born in the 60s?

Attention beautiful people everywhere! If you want to live in the 60s then be the 60s! Break all the rules including the rules of time. Get your beads and your bells and your bangles and your tamborines and be free! That's what it was about then and that's what it's about now. Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it! Do it!

Just please don't smoke them fucking cigarettes. That's the Man's death trip.

Love ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And they call me
Crazy

 

How many times haven't I thought like that, or, in my case, as I live in Sweden, where our kind of hippie movement developed in the 70's.

People don't care about things so much anymore, it's just go with the flow all the time.

I feel misplaced in time, a debris of a generation I never where a part of.

 

I was born in teh sixties however I would have like to be about 17 in say 1964. I think that people who were able to experience the sixties fully are America's greatest generation because they have seen so much. Growing up in the fifties, the whole political/music scene of the sixties, the moon walk, the seventies hippie/disco thing, the eighties and now the internet revolution. I kind of feel sorry for people born today. I don't think this world holds much of a future for them.

 

I think its better to see the positive things. Be the Hippie-Generation 2007!

 

i agree, the world seems to need it anyway

 

I do have to agree that during the 50s and 60s just good genes everywhere! Every woman was beauitful, today women get ugly because of all thos surgeries. 60s women got out and had fun, that was what made them stay pretty, grew old naturally and beauitfully

 

It's time for hippies to shine agan, the world NEEDS us! When I was younger in the 1980s I also wished I'd been there for "the 60s". But alot of us felt like that and we came together, with help from the Grateful Dead of course, and we made our own scene and made incredible things happen. Magic is all around, just open up to it and let your light shine out and it will start others doing the same and soon there will be another great revival getting the energy out there into public conciousness and changing the world. Let your freak flags fly, kids. The world needs your love!

 

I agree with terrapinrose up there.....i thinkt there will be a time of revival for hippies or the like....but I am afraid it will happen too late

 

i agree...although i am glad you said it, and not I......the future, the path we are on if it doesnt change, does look bleak and hopeless.....

please, lord, let there be a positive change in the collective consciousness...

 

I also don't think that I don't go out and have fun and that I'm ugly. Ok, you might think that 16 years olds aren't really called women.

 

I think current day is much like the 1960's. A pointless war going on, really bad president. Okay, maybe the drugs aren't as fun or common, but another thing that isn't here are the poets. Remember neil young, Bob Dylan, John Fogarty, Donovan a little, Peter Paul and Mary???? we can't rely on them anymore. I mean they are in old in that sence and they can't do anything. There are not as many rallys, sit ins, or nearly as many protests as there were in the 60's and 70's. But the wind has changed and we are in a different decade so just like others have said, you can't always look in the past...you have to look for it here....

But it would be cool groweing up in the 60's....

 

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Beatlemania234 - when you make statements with such authority about people, make sure you know that what you are saying is correct. You can't rely on Bob Dylan anymore? He's old and he can't do anything??! I don't think so, pal. I refer you to a recent article regarding Dylan's latest album:

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bob Dylan's new album "Modern Times" was released on Tuesday to rave reviews that showed the 65-year-old legend has plenty to say about the changing times since his last record came out on September 11, 2001.

"Dylan just glances at current events and that's all it takes for him to conjure up the dread of the age. His songs catch the curious blend of unwavering faith and formless fear that distinguishes the present moment."

Critic Steve Jones wrote in USA Today praised the album by saying, "It takes about 30 seconds to figure out you're in the presence of greatness."

He said the album "contains some of Dylan's most direct love lyrics, vindictive vendettas, meditations on mortality, pointed political commentary, dry wit, apocalyptic imagery and head-scratching flights of fancy -- sometimes in the same song."

"The particulars of the present mean less and less to the songwriter who radically and irrevocably changed popular music in the 1960s."
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Get with it, Beatlemania234 ... check out Dylan's newest
album. Yeah, Dylan probably looks old from where you stand, but it would behoove you to learn that with age, does come wisdom; and just because someone is over fifty, it doesn't mean they can't do anything. Your point of view is riddled with prejudice, and it would serve you well in life to open your mind a good bit.

Michaela
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"They will never make a perfect heart until they
make one that can't be broken."
....... The Wizard, "The Wizard of Oz"
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There are tunes and bands out there saying what needs to be said but chances are it's not the kind of music that 'Hippies' listen to.

I was always curious why Melissa Ethridge's "I need to wake up" was never largely recieved. Great tune. I'm assuming it's the kind of tunes y'all are looking for.

 

I cannot stand melissa etheridge....her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to my ears...

 

you know that dylan hates that album...he doesn't like how it sounds, or something like that i guess..

now don't yell at me, it's just what i saw when i was reading a review of Modern Times

 

When I look at my parents, I think "Gee, they grew up with the greatest music, all sorts of movements, and during the biggest step towards solidarity that I can pinpoint ever happening. They didn't even realize how great their time was!" So I'm always wondering If my generation's children will ever say "God Mom, why didn't you go to more ------ concerts?" "Jeez Dad - you never even went to ------??" I hope I'm not taking these years for granted...

But then again, what is there? We had something with phish...but then that didn't work out.

In conclusion, the fate of my generation is resting on the shoulders of moe.

THE END.

Have a wonderful day : )

 

I was born in the late 40's and turned 18 in 1967.
There were choices for young people then. There was a big club scene for music
then. The dress for them was calf high plasic go-go boots , mini- skirts and hair
do's with tons of hair spray for the gals. The guys wore bell bottom slacks, Beatle boots and an expensive shirt of some type. Basically clothes hogs.
Then there was us others. Free concerts in the Parks in major areas. comfortable clothes, foot wear optional, peasant blouses, no bras, skinny dip'in,
cheap mexican pot ($10 a lid or 3 for $25) LSD a dollar a hit.
Gas for your VW micro-bus was 25 cents a gallon. Made a road trip from San Francisco to NYC and back for $62.00 .It was great.
But there were down sides, go through the wrong areas and you might get the shit kicked out of you by a bunch of red-necks. The free love was great, but sometimes you wound up at the free clinic for a shot and some take homes, cause you had a dose that wouldn't stop dripping.Thank god aids hadn't surfaced yet...
Things changed, people started moving to the country, heroin was on the upswing in the cities. The day of the "crash pads" was all but over, good people were getting tired of getting ripped off.
As for me, I turned 21 at a place called Ben Loi, it was fire base in the Republic of South Viet Nam. Didn't go to Canada and never be able to come home again.
After the tour of duty, I came back to Alaska where I felt there was a bit of sanity and people here are open minded.... My memories of the 60's

 

People i am not predujice against the old. I was just sasying that once he is gone we can't rely on bob and stuff anymore. I know all about modern times, and the reason he hates it is because he hates the new way of recording...he liked analog a lot better. I am not close minded michaela i thought it was wrong of you too say that...but whatever... i have modern times.....it is a great album.....i was just trying to say that the poets are not here anymore, just saying we can't rely on bob anymore and yes i did miss word it...i just don't think you should have implied that i was close-minded

 

One thing about the attitude and vibe differences and all ..

In one of the documentaries I have observed, a woman explains something along these lines (I can't remember so well)..

Men here are open and honest and loving, there are no mind-games, men here are not afraid to show their feelings and cry, to be sensitive, to love pretty things, to explore themselves, ..(etc) .. These men are so much more interesting!

I cannot imagine a young, attractive woman stating something like this in modern days and her friends nodding as it's some kind of universally accepted truth..

These days women want lies, they love mind-games, they laugh at men who cry, they label men who like pretty things - as gay, they will walk far away from anyone who is 'searching themselves' or who are sensitive (except for 'friends', which means that while the woman has sex with someone who beats her up and drinks her money, she has a male friend who she can complain and dump all the misery and garbage of life on, so she can continue this..)...

The way the woman described the men and why and how they are interesting (I am sure there were other things too but I can't remember all) just was a huge eye-opener to me how different things have become. Today such man would be called wimp, sissy, loser, etc etc etc.. And would earn a total disrespect in most cases.

Sure you have to live in the moment - but isn't it suppressing the moment if you suppress your longing for the 60's and the more honest and deep and loving and open and joyful relationships which seemed to many just an everyday thing, just a normal stuff, like how everything should be ..

After that 60's era.. everything started going bad.

I am aware of the multiple reasons and the magnitude of them that have led to this, but some of it is still bit of a mystery. As far as I can tell, the 60's had great vibes (despite the war etc.), the 70's had a bit colder vibes but still much better than now .. then 80's brought some kind of extra energy to the vibes and had some really great years which felt totally magical .. but it was when the 90's came that the vibes started changing to something non-human... de-human ... something sub-human ..

Like some force (maybe created by us somehow) is turning us from highly joyful, spiritual, loving, understanding and sensitive beings into ruthless animals and barbarians by lowering the vibes we live in.

I don't know if the low vibes is the cause of all the misery and all this change for the worse that's happening today or if what's happening is causing the low vibes or if it's something else. But I know that by the end of the 90's, the vibes were REALLY far away from the 80's best vibes (or even it's worst), and by 2007 I would gladly get the 1999 vibes back.. sheesh.

Well, these are just my thoughts of the differences between the 60's and today, and a short explanation of something that has shocked me when I realized this vibe-change .. (If anyone even has a clue of what the heck I am rambling about, hehe..)

- Vortac

p.s. btw, I am a bit disappointed to see fighting even here. Well, not real fighting - much more civilized than in many 'spiritual' forums and all that. But I mean .. man against man, brother against brother (or sister against sister or any combination -- I wish there was a gender-independent term for 'brother', so I wouldn't always have to use two words to describe a single thing like brotherhood).. I mean, if someone misses the 60's, immediately people start trying to talk sense into that. Why can't someone miss freely? Does it mean that the person is not living this crude age if that person sometimes misses something? Is all missing banned by hippies? I mean come on! Where is the FREEDOM???

(Besides, in a bad world, it's never wrong to miss a good world, it's only natural, it's only human! Do you want to turn people blind and conformistic so they would only accept this time and never miss any other time? What's so worth of praisal in this wretched age we live in where everything is more wrong than ever in humanity's history? The 60's are worth missing. There was magic then! The 00's aren't.All magic is dead.)