I wish i was around in the 60's

I've been on the bus, not the same one but the new age love movement has it goin' on yo, the same energy is around none the less, not as numerous but growing and flowering as many generations of ideas come together into one rolling energy.

L.O.V.E. I.S. F.R.E.E.
I love this forum on the 60s, very interesting... old soul in this body but unfortunately was not around for that era.

PEACE

 

As a friend of mine used to say;

"The past doesn't exist, and the future is for suckers" HaHaHa!

 

there is one thing to remember...the bliss, euphoria, and utopia that we associate with the 60s was only a window of about 3 years...then it started going downhill

 

Wish I had been around in the 60's also as much as it has been derided, think we could learn a lot from the values of those times

 

Why so you could be almost 60 today? Live your life dont try to mimic someone else's i say.

 

The new bus! It needs to be planned and got on to. It needs some planning ahead, but it will work I'm sure. It's so simple

 

It's not about being in the right time, it's about being at the right place at the right time. Some people in the sixties missed most about it because they weren't at it.
I have the feeling some 'freespirited' people are missing lots of things because they linger in a romanticized past. The sixties wasn't all progressive and fun, changes had to be made because lots of people weren't experiencing freedom and getting chances at all. Some people didn't saw any hippies and stuff at all!
Just as some of you fail to see this is a great time to live as well, great things are happening, lots of right places are here as well and there are still lots of changes to be made too.

 

I agree with you,Asmodean. Although the celebrity worshipping greed loving society we live in rubs against my morals and heart, it is possible to construct a personal world of love, peace and individualism. Will it ever be popular? Probably not. But who cares? The masses are asses, I say. Dream your own dream then live it. Now is Now, and we get only one chance IMO to live up to our dreams, and hearts. Peace and love will never die, not as long as there are brothers and sisters such as those that inhabit this forum.

 

The fifties and sixties were probably the best times the world has known. After the war jobs were a dime a dozen. I remember walking along one Street in Toronto and getting a job. I worked for an hour or two and decided I didnt like that job. Got another job next door and did the same thing. Finally I went a couple doors further and got a job I liked, running a press, punching out metal toys for kids.

It was piecework on top od hourly. When I was young I loved piece work because I was always fast at any job I did and could rake in pretty good bucks.

But Union forming was big then too and I was not a union lover. I fought to keep the union out. I was attacked, beaten up and the union got in , which made me a pariah and eventually I lost my job at their insistance. That ended up being a good thing because if it had not happened I might never have gotten into the job I truely loved, being a machinist, actually making something of value.

The sixties, when girls knew what they wanted and guys were willing to help them get it.LOL

One of the big things for young men was to buy and old ford from the early fifties. You could grab a good working car for fifteen bucks. Chop off the roof and put on a ragtop and the girls loved you instantly. I suspect it was pretty much the same in America as in Canada back then for young folks.

The sixties meant freedom, fun, and work aplenty. Money was no object as long as you had a job. I bought my first suit for twenty nine dollars, two pair of pants, jacket and vest. Course, that was nearly a weeks wages back then. Normal working hours was fifty hours a week. Normal pay was around ninety cents or a dollar an hour, but that was good money for a young man.

Then we got stars like Rachael Welch starting out. I must have watched One Million BC a hundred times.LOL

Seventies was the start of jobs getting harder to find and that was something I never did get used to.

Would I go back to the sixties? Naw, been there, done it. I doubt I could do it any better now. It was the time of our lives that is best left to memory.

 

I only wish we were not so enslaved by Big Brother and technology. Cameras watch us all the time. The pigs know what we're doing every second of every day. Just get pulled over, and what does the pig do with your license? Runs it through a national database computer. No one can live on anonymous cash anymore. Those cards you get at stores to recieve extra savings? They're really tracking your purchases, for advertising purposes (so they know what you buy, when you buy it ). I am sick and tired of technology (yes, I know I'm on the internet) running our lives. Technology is a tool, not a master. I don't want to be a slave. Pretty soon we'll all be hooked up to the Matrix. Maybe we already are.
It seems to me there was more personal freedom in the sixties and seventies, before technology reared its ugly head. I feel like I'm alone in this, everyone around me has embraced the new world order. And drug tests? definately an aspect of big brother I find offensive.

 

Life seemed like it was so easier and more simple. I would have LOVED to be around in the 60s, the experiences that could have been had..

 

you do realize that would make you like sixty right??

 

i wish time machines existed. then i could go back and live in that time.

 

At one point, enough young people will wish to live in the sixties, that it will eventually come back.
And you CAN NOT be afraid of the big brother. If you are afraid of the big brother, you've done his job for him. Fight the fear! This is what today's society is like. Terrorizing people with fear so much, that they don't dare to demand a change.

 

let's bring the 60s back ha-ha

 

I'm down. Maybe we can start with the decimalization of marijuana?

 

i am down if you're down :hat:

 

Ah, man. I was born, like, 50 years late. I feel ya, that's exactly how I feel.

 

I certainly wish I was sentient in the 60s.

My "season of youth" was the 80s. We were into a lot of British new wave bands. But Depeche Mode somehow doesn't convey the same sense of history and culture as Bob Dylan or Jimi Hendrix or even Jefferson Airplane.

It truly sounds like a magical time.

I know a few people in their early 60s who were there, in some cases at such ground zero locales as UC Berkeley. One thing they all say is how short that exciting peak time was, and how they really haven't held onto it and just moved on into careers and marriage and parenthood etc.

 

Nobody's born too late.