The Magic of the 60s

I do agree, like I said:

It's just that there is so much more! When I listen to music I want to hear passion, and not just passionate love of the opposite sex. I think it's important to have music that makes us think about something other than that. Like politics, for example. I mean, in this time when so many young people aren't even registered to vote, it would make so much of a difference if our poets and prophets would speak on these things. I think Incubus (sp?) has the right idea!!

Am I totally off here?

 

Trust me, America has become conformist, so I dunno about the magic. Not to mention the music has gone to hell nowadays; but I think that it's possible to feel some of that energy if you have a group of friends that are into the same stuff as you. I, unfortunately, am not blessed with such.

 

Jet does have a way of telling about the passion for the opposite sex, but there is also a passion for whatever you are talking about, which is what made music from the 60's so wonderful. Passion. Nowadays, it's all about the money. Metallica suing Napster, because they wanted money, not passionate about the music.

Anybody ever see 'Almost Famous'. The made up band Stillwater, were in it for the music, not the money.

'Although some money would be nice, to get by with. And the chicks are great!' - Jason Lee as Jeff Bebe from 'Almost Famous.

 

i want somebody to love
yes i need somebody to love
i'd love somebody to love,
i better find somebody to love.


I guess the 60s are so great partly because they will never happen again. Once in a universe kind of thing.

i was born in the wrong decade but its okay. i can be upset about it , but until i get a time machine, it will do me no good....
im in a dream state right now i dont remember what im saying.

i just feel sad and cheated and let down

i feel ive failed before ive began

holy shit woman stop typing you make no sense....

NEVER! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo......

 

Hey, Love/YoungPeace (sorry if I got that wrong). Don't be sad that you missed something from the past. You have a whole new future to look forward to and you CAN make a difference. You don't have to have lived the life of another time to have a good life of your own. I know our world today is not that wonderful, but you have to be at peace with yourself to enjoy life. Make the most of your youth and strength, get involved in something positive that may help our planet. Look at the flowers, not the weeds.

All you need is love and it's out there for you to find. Take it from an old hippie, life really ain't so bad.

 

Hey, Real American, what is your issue with drugs, were you there with the hippies? were you in Nam? You can't comprehend that people can get together in harmony without being stoned on something? That is really sad. It's OK though, you are entitled to your opinion.
Personally I was there and did not do drugs or smoke weed, but I was tolerant of those who did, they were usually OK to be around. Nowadays we have some pretty nasty chemicals that people are taking (crack, exctasy etc.) and I do not like being around those people.

Just out of interest, where do you stand on legalizing weed?

 

Almost famous - I love that movie! It is one of my favorites, which is saying something because I usually only like "films" and often with subtitles. I think Almost famous is really insirational, at least it is for me!

 

its easy to sit at your computers and complain about how the 60's are over and how the magic has left the world, but are you getting out on the streets pushong for the counter culture movment? Are you getting beaten up by cops for acting like a mad man? hmmmmm yeah well see the counter culter movment of the late 60's and early 70's really wasent that huge, yeah there were people like ken keasy driving around in busses drinking acid where ever they went, but that really wasent that aparent. It makes me laugh that you are all being nastalgic instead of going out into the world and mixing it up alittle, if something pisses you off, GET PISSED OFF show them who the hell you are. Hippys were also not non-conformists in the sence that we think of it today, they were trying to start their own culture, they dident want to jsut be their own individuals, it was a movement, organisation was nessisary, a new conformity was created and nothing is wrong with that at all. What needs to be done in order for the "magic" of the 60's (I wont even get into my feelings about decade grouping) is that the youth needs to openly rebel agaist the organised society and form thier own reality, who knows what that is going to look like but there needs to be something to bind them. NOW GO GET YOURSELF SOME DAYGLOW PAINTS! PAINT YOUR FACES AND FREAKOUT IN THE STREAT!
YAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYYA

 

yes oh my god i totally agree you see i am the young generation im am 14 and all i have been trying to do is bring back the magic, all i need is a big topic to protest about, & im all for it, but i havent found anyone else who is, thats why i joined this site to find more people like me, SO TO ANYONE WHO WANTS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD PLEASE TALK TO ME I AM TOTALLY SERIOUS LETS SHOW THOSE POWER LOVING AUTHORITY HOW MUCH STRONGER THE POWER OF LOVE IS LETS SHOW THEM WHAT HIPPIES ARE MADE OF LETS MAKE THIS WORLD A PEACEFUL PLACE TO LIVE, talk to me if you to are serious about this statement

 

Go for it, as long as there are rules that enforce no smoking while driving. I figure if they were to legalize that drug it would cut down on the cost each city uses to take down ppl using and selling. There for giving the police more time to spend on other problems. Hell, while they are at it, legalize all the other drugs as well, a mass influx of legal buying will cause drugies all over to start over dosing...it will be like a self cleaning cycle in a washing machine.

 

i gotta admit, im not really seeing it in the concept forms of 'hippie vs. society' anymore, but madmen/beautiful people vs. the dead and brainwashed of society.

it's kind of like a spiritual revolution, and when you keep spreading your vision, the more people get turned on. go out there, start a band, and play some insane music. be like syd barrett. hahaa

 

Yes, that's right, drugs ruin lives. No, it could never be the the fact that some people can't control their use, not at all; it must be the drugs that make people ruin their lives.

How old are you anyway? Obviously not 44 or even older.

 

hey thanks man. im sorry to be so pessimistic. i was having a mid-life crisis moment..... heheehee. anyway good advice man , thanks!

 

I dont regret missing the sixties. I woulda been drafted, I woulda gone, I wouldnt be here now(dead), plus I woulda missed every awesome experience I have actually experienced in the life I was given. I only wanna visit, time machine style. Catching ever dead show woulda been cool tho.

 

You are right, I should have said it differently. It's the consumption of drugs that ruins your life. The drug itself is just the stepping stone. Either way, unless used for medicinal purposes, they do nothing of benifit for the user.

One more thing:

Are you saying that people older that 44 aren't able to see that drugs are bad? What if I am 42, would that make a difference that drugs are bad? Would that make a difference that people using drugs are dumb?

 

i think the new generation needs to step up and create a "MAGIC" of their own!! We are not alone out there, if we all come together for what we beleive in etc.... things can happen, BIG and GOOD things!!!
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Wow man, you are so narrow minded on this!

FPM, you are so right mama!

 

Drugs are an Eye-opener. What medical purpose does LSD have? Does medicinal marijuana really work? Where do you get your information?

 

people who use drugs are dumb. what a scientific and unbiased fact/statement. please, please show me the evidence you have to support this claim, besides government propaganda.

 

I agree with RA because I have seen 2 of my friends get in big trouble because of drugs. one was expelled and decided to just drop out of college the other has decided he dosn't care about school and dosn't try and gets d's.. Not all drug cases are like this but 90% are.. If you think its government propeganda than Im sorry that you choose to live in a fanticy world.. at one point Little Rock, AR (where I live) had the Highest murder rate in the US.. wonder why? Because the Bloods and Crypts were fighting for controll of the meth traficing.. meth is a huge problem in Arkansas...

I have also seen someone loose there Kids respect and his children are now following his path.. they are into drugs and the 19 year old is pregnent and unable to support herself, even though the guy she is pregnent by wants to marry her.. this world is suffering because of drugs..


I hope you can atleast say smoaking is stuped because even pot can cause cancer.. But throw your life away with your government drug conspericy/ propaganda garbage and your life will go to hell in a handbasket (not saying you will go to hell but your life will become a living hell..)...

This is one of the reasons that I would go to war overbeing a Cop.. no one listens to them.. they are constantly in fear that the person who they pulled over has drugs and is willing to kill the officer so they dont get caught..

so manny reasons not to do drugs.. why would you consider them..
i hope I never get lured into drugs because I have seen people go through hell..

In the late 60's - mid 70's the ruler of the USSR came on American telivision and anounced his way to distroy the USA.. through the youth.. he would help drug controll into the US and makeshure the problems with the drugs in the 60's were nothing to what we were to see.. well ladies and gentlemen do you want to let the USSR's plan work? do you really want anarchy.. where gangs rule and people are executed for pission people off? have you seen excape from LA? the citty of LA in that movie is what anarchy looks like and drugs if widly used could cause that..

If laws were put into place where drugs were legal but they crackdown on DWI' s It would be fine with me.. also the drugrate would decrease.. drugs are done for rebelion.. everyone who does them started as an adolecent or did 'em in the 60's... making 'em legal is the best way to stop them.. not to mention the Government could sell them and cut the national debt and would not have to pay for NARCs... but I would prefer that this didn't happen..