{Depression used in a melodramatic sense...} There's this documentary on the History Channel called Hippies (it comes on again in 2 hours), and it's been pretty good... Didn't say much I didn't already know, but I can never see enough footage of that kinda stuff. Anyway, documentaries like this always sadden me. They always make it sound like it was the end of hope when the 60’s were over.(Now it's talking about the deaths of Hendrix, Joplin, and Morrison) But the hippie movement was only the popularization of the ideology of like minded, peace-loving people who believed that openness was the way to living in harmony...right? LSD played a big part in spreading this ideology to those who didn’t get it in the first place. But the driving force of the hippie movement, which is what really matters, is something that has and always will exist—the young people on this forum prove that, right? I mean, the hope for a better world (In our use of the phrase) can’t truly be stopped until civilization is completely over, right? Why does good ideology only exist for a short time, and then turn bad, and become stigmatized—to be remembered by the majority of future generations as a quirk in the history of culture? Does anyone else get this feeling after seeing or reading a documentary like that? edit: Well, it kinda almost redeems itself in the last couple minutes...but still. yeah.
The hippy movement isn't what people think is was, and it would have never become a popular movement if it wasn't for the media promoting it. Most people think it's some grass roots movement which came into existence all on its own, but it's not.
