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OfflinePHARMAKOS
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what happend to these people?
    #2215301 - 01/02/04 03:34 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

the hippy generation, the dead heads and pot heads and flower children, whatever you think about them, represented the largest rebellion if you will, of young idealistic people against the current society, the man, the soctial norms, old taboos, outdated ideas and evil government in american memory. Many of me and my pot smoking buddies have parents who talk about being hippies, hanging out at woodstock, etc etc but today there working shit jobs, basic burn out beurocrats and civil servants, probably exactly how they percieved there own parents back in there own childhood.

Is it inevitable? does idealism and individuality die off with age? My psychology teacher talked about how teenagers actually have an area of the brain that is 'unusually enlarged' and decreases in size with maturation. This are is connected with risk taking behaviour.

This is supposed to be why teeneagers are so susceptible to experimenting with drugs, sex, reckless driving etc. I just think of all the things me and my buddies believe in and our ideals and how we say 'were never gonna give up this life, were never gonna sell out, buy in to the shit etc' but you know ill bet our parents said the same thing. What do you think?

sorry i dont usually post stoned and im having trouble getting this shit clear.

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OfflineSpecialEd
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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215310 - 01/02/04 03:39 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

They sold out if you will...reckless youthful abandon can only take you so far...paradigm shifts are inevitable and in maturity people become responsible and see the benefit of adhering to societal norms.


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OfflineStrumpling
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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215318 - 01/02/04 03:42 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

they got funneled into the corporate/political machine like everybody else.... The rest of them are working in the creative realm or suffering on the street or both


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OfflineSpecialEd
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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Strumpling]
    #2215323 - 01/02/04 03:46 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Quote:

they got funneled into the corporate/political machine like everybody else.... The rest of them are working in the creative realm or suffering on the street or both




So what does that say about the ideals of the countermovement.

Your 3 possible outcomes are

1. being decieved into a life you do not want
2. suffering on the street
3. making a meager living in the creative realm (yes some people make money in art, but HOW MANY?)


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2215343 - 01/02/04 03:57 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

to me that says it wasn't time for the countermovement to break through..

Probably still isn't, with all these lazy unmotivated people like me willing to talk shit on the internet but not willing to organize some type of "outcry"


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Strumpling]
    #2215351 - 01/02/04 04:01 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Don't worry though - our government is getting better and better at pissing people off


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Strumpling]
    #2215353 - 01/02/04 04:01 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

I don't consider myself unmotivated, but I would be hesitant to join a counterculture movement that required a significant investment on my part because I would fear failure :sad:


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2215400 - 01/02/04 04:25 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

In this type of thing, Failure would not be an option - this is why I feel it is not time.... If our government continues to act as they are, I'm sure it won't be long before there are enough people enraged that they are willing to sacrifice to get changes made. As usual, I'm not really talking violence, but it seems if enough people dropped everything and said "ok we're not playing anymore," they would have to listen


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215466 - 01/02/04 05:12 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Maybe they disapeared into another existance, or the drugs that led them one way made them not strong minded but weak minded. Relying on a chemical for satisfaction will inturn make you need more and more of that chemical to reach the same effect. Psychologically addicting.

I once went through the idealogy of a hippy. It would be fun to live one existance that way. It would also be fun to live a whole lifetime in a computer game.


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Droz]
    #2215598 - 01/02/04 06:32 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

*stamps foot* Will all of you stop talking about me as if I am not here!

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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Swami]
    #2215615 - 01/02/04 06:45 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

well you're NOT here...... Where'd your movement go punkash?


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Invisiblekaiowas
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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215652 - 01/02/04 07:14 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

i think many of us are waiting when the "movement" to begin.  but as strumpling said,  too many lazy people.

btw I'm a freakin hippie (and a peaceful one at that) so stop saying I don't exist damnit :grin:


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Swami]
    #2215665 - 01/02/04 07:25 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

sorry dude, but you are to be held with suspicion,

never trust ANYONE over 30...


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2215836 - 01/02/04 09:27 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

I eat Gen X & Y kids for breakfast!


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OfflineShizpow
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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215854 - 01/02/04 09:48 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Hippies and revolution are diametrically opposed. It was true when Chairman Mao said it and it's true now: "Political power comes out of the barrel of a gun." It sucks...but it's true. So if you want the power, you better be willing to point a gun or two. But then you're not advocating unconditional peace and acceptance anymore, are you? Basically, it was impossible for the hippies to have won from the start, because to depose the man, you have to become the man.


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Shizpow]
    #2215867 - 01/02/04 09:59 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

i must disagree. I think one thing that is entirely clear is that the war for our mental freedom CAN NOT be won with a gun. For gods sakes any attempt to oppose amerikana with military force would be like.... um...like... well like an utterly futile farce. THey just have too many guns. The only effective rebeliion is going to have to be non violent, attacking societys problems at its root : IE: the government only has as much power as the people give them. Im not saying the hippies and there love were the way to go, but i think they were more than half way there.

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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2215888 - 01/02/04 10:15 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

I completely agree that armed rebellion is (amost) entirely futile. In the 18th and 19th centuries, it was a much more viable option, and put to great use by the Americans as well as the French, among others. But with the staggering discrepency of power between the government and the populace these days, this option is almost impossible. Which brings us as you've said to nonviolence. I will have to disagree with you that the government has only as much power as we give them. I think it's become abundantly clear in the last fifty years that the government has as much power as it chooses to take, and there's fuck all we can do about it. This leads me to feel that nonviolence is a waste of time. It seems that today, our choices are to let out government walk all over us with only our impotent grumblings to oppose them in gesture, or to fight back and make our government grind us under its heel, which it is more than capable of and willing to do. Not too appealing either way, in my opinion.


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Shizpow]
    #2215960 - 01/02/04 11:16 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Government would work a lot better if it didn't attract all the wrong people. Mainly it attracts the greedy, or those who want power. Either way, greed or power, it takes away from the lives of the citizens it's supposed to help. If we could only get more sensible people to control the nation, a government of scientists and philosophers and artists maybe, then it would work. But this is just wishful thinking, I doubt it will happen, or if it does not for many years. Hell, we're having to face a huge battle just to legalize a mind-expanding and harmless herb like cannabis that's still not legal, and may not be for years, imagine how much it would take to change the entire government.


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: Ravus]
    #2215972 - 01/02/04 11:33 PM (20 years, 2 months ago)

Maybe... since cannabis legalization seems so futile ...then, a reworking of the complete government should be the 1st step?


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Re: what happend to these people? [Re: PHARMAKOS]
    #2216054 - 01/03/04 12:22 AM (20 years, 2 months ago)

My dad was a "hippy". He now is in a good corporate job with kids doing nicely. They stopped burning down when they had kids.


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