hehe, that rascal. woa, nice answer there man. couldnt agree more too, gotta let things flow one more question for you if you dont mind back in those days, did hippies look back on a previous era as the 'golden age' the same way we look back on the 60s/70s now?
No one ever talked about what things used to be like, since we knew we were living in the best of times. The former bohemian, Beatnicks were a fading crowd, and I was able to see a fragment of it in New England before I left, but at the same time no one mentioned the word hippies except when reffering to the crowd going to see concerts in the Fillmore east. The term used was "weekend hippies", because we were surviving day to day,sharing, and far away from parents, while they were living in suburbia and coming to the city only to see a show.. Nothing wrong with that now, but NYC is the roughest city to live in, and those who lived there had escpaped from almost everywhere in the United States to try to live independent of the family system, but not everyone had the backbone for that. Same year that I met two great people from a state in New Englad was the same year that I saw them leave saying "NY is too rough".
That sounds mind blowing man. Do you see any way of reaching anything like that again? Afterall, it is the age of Aquarius...I wonder if it'll bring a new way thinking.
I don't know where to begin....It's mainly being at the right place at the right time, yet never mind the era, since any era is perfect and you can go through unlimited number of radical adventures and experiences if you set yourself lose. Everything has its own time; and if you tune in and dare to renounce everything, you will find yourself at that well-timed place. To have been in the Village in 1969 (Woodstock) was perfect, or Frisco in 1967(summer of love), but now both places are nothing resembling what they used to be, and even in 76 the culture of freedom had ended. Most hippies had succumbed to earning money and worrying about it, or gone the deep end of hard drugs. The eighties was the perfect time to travel and be nowhere, since there were no happennings anywhere. People thought disco was the thing, and it threatened to swallow everything, and even the Bee-gees took part of it, and maybe that was good since the only good music then it was by them, but that is my opinion. What I see now is the revolution of the individual, and all movements of the past lay-ed the foundation for that. Look at primitive countries and even groups within modern cities, the individual is lost in the group. Every race becomes like an inner city cult with its rules and demands, and no one even notices it, since they are making themselves feel good by thinking they are the cream of the crop, or the best mankind has produced . Anything that demands the individual to lose his individuality and become one with some limited group is an evil cult, racism for example, and also nationalism, world-wars or gang-wars are fueled by the same ignorant thinking. I think the present revolution is through communication, and expanding self-knowledge. The Computer world offers a lot of opportunities for that.
