H/T to Zaius for the video. I never was a Hippie but I agree with a lot of their ideals. Turns out their ideas on a lot of things were Right On. Which may explain why the Never-Right is still fighting The Dirty Fucking Hippies even tho the movement (and most of its people) is long gone.
Excellent. That's all. Just excellent.
ReplyDeleteWho was that guy anyway?
Sorry about that. Just added a link to the blog I stole the video from.
ReplyDeleteAs to who did the video, I haven't the foggiest!!
Ha! Thanks for the link, Kulkuri!
ReplyDeleteI saw this first today at YellowDogGranny. It's great no matter who's posting it.
ReplyDeletei wish now i could remember who sent it to me ..i got it in an email and then stole it and put it up too..fell bad as i forgot to thank them..
ReplyDeletePretty good vid, other than the fact that the music was too loud.
ReplyDeleteBack when the hippies were big in the 60's and 70's I was a pretty square peg mechanic and service manager but even then I admired them and their beliefs and ways.
Except for the drugs, I've just never understood the drugs thing, guess it was just their way of dealing with things.
But yes, they were right about many things and I've always had some hippie in me, and I'm damn proud of that.
I noticed that on these rechargeable batteries they are rated at just 1.2 volts instead of 1.5 volts. Hum.
ReplyDelete"Hippie" is another adjustable label imo. If you had long hair, you were a hippie period, no matter your beliefs. America's great compartmentalization need and all. I did grass by the bale, any drug except needles and cocaine, I stood at Haight and Ashsbury and sang the songs. I was into it all the way. I was just back from Nam, and out of the Navy.
ReplyDeleteWhat wasn't adjustable was our outspoken hatred of "The Man", which constituted LE folks, corporate folks...and in general, anybody that tried to tell us what to do.
Looking back, we were idealistic until you'd puke, but we were free thinkers. We "thought outside the box" way before the term was vogue. There was so many nuances to the movement that it's impossible to cover here, but essentially, "we were a bunch of people all dressed up with no place to go", meaning we had a lot of good ideas, but no framework for putting those ideas into action. We had marginalized ourselves with the "crazy" actions as well as the drug use, and society had marginalized us. We wanted to "tear bad shit down" so to speak, but we didn't know what we wanted to put in it's place, and worse, had nothing planned for a replacement.
I worked for a gal that was Miss MBA Business Suit all the way (she actually had an MBA); she also had an arrest record for drugs a mile long!:) We got to be good friends. We came to the mutual conclusion that reality, the need to support ourselves and a family, and "the system" forced us into conformity to achieve those goals. But the movement died most of all I think, not from the drug use, but from a lack of visionary planners. A lot of us had a lot of visions, but they weren't of the type that would give structure and support to the movement.:) There's a whole lot of us still hippies in our mind. Willie and Waylon speaks for a lot of us.
Sorry about the book, but that subject brings back a lot of memories.
But the movement died most of all I think, not from the drug use, but from a lack of visionary planners.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, but I can't agree with that. I think that the plan was to get back to the land, to be simple and basic.
But the needs and wants of corporate America, and women in general after they get over just wanting to be basic and loving, over powered it.
The two biggest evils on this planet are people that want more money and women that want more things and are willing to give others the money for those things.
Especially if they can get you to provide that money, or labor, or whatever. Generally speaking of course.
How many women do you know that doesn't have a cell phone? Do they ever sit down and figure out what it actually costs them to use one?
Mostly for stupid conversations. I talked to a neat lady today, cell phone? Fuck that. Computer? Fuck that. TV? Fuck that.
But she knows how to garden and can and make beer and wine. I love country gals like that.
Yes, hippies do have some issues, but don't we all? Permits? I don't need any fucking permits, ha ha ha.
ReplyDeleteI modified an LED light that I bought last year. SPIRITS PROJECTS
Finally saw this.
ReplyDeleteThose DFH's are STILL right, you know.
Peace.