Oooh, I'm watching it now... even though I have Spanish homework and a philosophy midterm tomorrow. Right now, they're talking about drugs and free love. ...Ohhhhh, you know what? I've seen this already. Yay! Back to work and procrastinating here!
I'm not sure if it's the same one, but I couldn't stand it for 5 minutes. They were talking about how the beatles were worshipping the devil or something..... I was like wtf?
um, wtf? I don't remember that... I thought they talked about the Beatle boycott in the US, but I didn't think they actually called the Beatles devil-worshippers or anything, lol. The whole programme seemed to be kind of anti-hippie, though... In the bit that I saw, they were talking about how kids were traumatized from being raised by hippie parents, how there were a bunch of people in Bellevue who had been driven crazy by LSD (like one guy who thought he was an orange, and no one thought that was weird because OMG they're all drug addicts!), and other stuff like that... yeah.
But... the guy who was an orange could only sit in a corner all day - he was afraid that if anyone touched him, all of his juices would pour out. It's not easy being (an) orange. lol.
im sorry but i said "i wish I WAS an orange" so, being an orange, im up in a tree, receiving sunshine and rain, being 1 and totally aware and in sintony, all reason is gone and I have no ego. an orange is perfect. :jester: :nopity: TOTAL EXISTENCE. :nopity: :jester:
Yeah, I've seen that thing twice or thrice. I don't know how to feel about it, though. I couldn't watch it all they way through the past couple times. They made it feel so *sinister*. Like the part with the Pranksters had this weird vibe of "Oh middle class America was having a good day... AND THEN KESEY CAME!!!!!" (OMG secret nazi Further!) ...And anyway human society takes all us natural beings and forces us into an unnatural state, unable to choose for ourselves. So we're all oranges already. CLOCKWORK ORANGES!
if I had three wishes one of them would be to be an orange. And yes I did see this and yes it was dumb
lol, 'kay. Sounds cool when you put it that way. Nature has knowlege of, and is in harmony with, the universe... so why not be part of nature, right? ...if I could be any fruit, I'd be a pinapple. I like pinapples. Plus, then I could live in Hawaii. lol. But I'd rather be a little stream in the countryside, or a rainbow.
I hated this program...it was so generic. but i liked the footage....just mute it and put in a good jefferson airplane album or the dead
I watched it...I think they got a load of it wrong. They left out so much that happend in those times. I suppose it's hard to fit so much into a two-hour documentary. They mentioned that lots of people were getting divorces by the late 60's. I gotta say, that people get divorced because they aren't happy. It's not something to be frowned upon. If you have a chance at happiness, you should take it right? Peace and love brothers and sisters xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Oh, about the orange thing!! I did some research (ie snopes.com haha) and the orange this is a myth. Which makes me feel happy inside. :]
The History Channel didn't do its research? Um, whoops. Oh well, it's good to know that the orange story isn't true. I saw a government-sponsored PSA on LSD where this girl talked about how she and her friend took acid and then went out to get hot dogs... the hot dog was talking to her, and begging her not to eat it because it had a family to support, lol. She decided that she was just hallucinating, so she bit into it, and it started screaming. So she threw it onto the ground and stomped on it, and then realized she killed it, and ran away screaming. haha. I don't know much (i.e., anything) about acid, but that sounds like a bad trip (and like propoganda) to me, lol.
I'd like to watch that thing about hippies, i havent seen it and id like to see the thing about LSD too ^^ peace and love Jane
I found the LSD thing in the hipforums video thingie. Here's the link... hopefully it'll work... http://www.hipforums.com/modules.php?name=Videos&file=viewlinkinfo&lid=171&gid=0.
Wowie. You're very, very right. I hadn't even thought about it that way! Reading this made me happy, so thanks!
Actually Anthony Burgess wrote that when he was tripping once... how did it go... let me dig out the book: "That's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?" - Alex
