If I re-lived life I'be a hippy.

[45_70sharps]

You know without conflict and desperate times, there would be very little advancement for my earliest days.
Many many great inventions came about as a result of the need with war or out of your brutality.

Who knows, that could have been a great trade off but nearly all major advancements have some link to war or at the very least extreme hardship and trying to survive.
Medicine alone would be hundreds of years behind without war and torture from days gone by.

Do all of the wonderful things in our world make it worth the price? Who knows where we would be right now if we were a peaceful by nature.
We will never know.

Not just as someone that has to get by in this world, but as a dad I can say that I wish our world was a much safer and more peaceful place right now.

 

[Dan]

Dan, the more of your posts I read the more I like you.

Haha

We ought to get together and brew someday. I'm in Hanford.

 

[unionrdr]

Well,I'm an aging hypster. Now what? where do I go from here? And free love,yeah,I wish...nothin was ever free. Save for some good chit bein passed around. Then the fat or ugly chicks started thinkin they were good lookin after a lot of weed,alkyhol,etc. Then they looked at me,skinny,young,dumb,& full of ***,...

 

[bottlebomber]

Well,I'm an aging hypster. Now what? where do I go from here? And free love,yeah,I wish...nothin was ever free. Save for some good chit bein passed around. Then the fat or ugly chicks started thinkin they were good lookin after a lot of weed,alkyhol,etc. Then they looked at me,skinny,young,dumb,& full of ***,...

Sounds like you had to pay with your dignity

 

[unionrdr]

Especially since it was there party a few times...

 

[fenderbass]

Anti-Gun, anti-military, anti-capitalist communists (that's why dirty smelly hippies live in "Communes").
Dirty and bug-infested. Hate working. Squatters, beggers, bums....
no thanks

 

[BBL_Brewer]

Anti-Gun, anti-military, anti-capitalist communists (that's why dirty smelly hippies live in "Communes").
Dirty and bug-infested. Hate working. Squatters, beggers, bums....
no thanks

I'm pretty sure a bunch of hippies went to college and became succesful, contributing individuals. Anti-war does not equal anti-military. My Dad was a big hippy back in the day. I grew up with guns and hunting and he set a great example for me with his strong work ethic. He's a libertarian, not a communist and I don't remember any crazy bug infestations (except for when my sister and I got head lice from day care). I think the group you are referring to are freeloaders. They tend to blend in with whatever crowd they're hanging out with.

 

[Cromwell]

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

Hippies don't smell, by the way. People who smelled gravitated towards the hippie movement because hippies were more accepting than other people. Unfortunately, people who were leeches on society also gravitated towards the movement, and a few bad apples destroyed the image, making "hippy" synonymous with "dirty", "theiving", and "drugged out".

The hippy movement was reactionary; it was a reaction to the strait-laced culture of the 50's, where you had to conform, supported wars fought solely for the purpose of the government and big business (not for freedom), and lost freedom of expression. The movement was marginalized by the general movement of the entire populace more towards the center. The hippy movement was just as radical as the right-wing extremism it opposed, no more and no less.

 

[motobrewer]

It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.

early 1700's or so

 

[Dan]

Cause....

 

[Dan]

and in keeping with

 

[45_70sharps]

I still stand by my anti hippy stance, but some great music did come out of it.

 

[Dan]

Hey, hey, we're the monkees
And people say we monkey around,
But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

I would have become a Biology major, so I can learn more about brewing. Huzzah!!!

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

I still stand by my anti hippy stance, but some great music did come out of it.

 

[CreamyGoodness]

College hippy girls, 1998-2002.

No details but I will say I will never ever be able to say "I hate hippies" and mean it.

 

[bottlebomber]

Anybody wanna peanut?

 

[45_70sharps]

Hey, hey, we're the monkees
And people say we monkey around,
But we're too busy singing
To put anybody down.

I used to love that show!
I think their goofy antics were inspired by the early Beatles movies.

 

[mbobhat]

What the heck, are you trying to break our eardrums? Hendrix, man, Hendrix.

Phish is just as good as Hendrix, because they're alive and kicking. They rock the hell out of live shows. I'd recommend anyone go see them sometime.

 

[Jboyles123]

I have this bumper sticker on my truck. My hair is a little long and I don't want anyone to get confused.

 

[Dan]

Hendrix not a hippy?


BS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kn7RnqQ4Zg

 

[unionrdr]

Ok,that's it...
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My generation baby!
But nowadays,this one would be me to my pop;
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=221mohEolWc&feature=endscreen

 

[passedpawn]

Love that Canned Heat.

This was my song for a long time. I wasn't a hippie really, just a long-haired wanderer. I think hippies had a mission, I didn't. Well, unless trim and bumming smokes was a mission.

I stumbled into a box of my dad's army utilities when I was a teenager. I wore that stuff through the late '70s. Freak flag flying baby. I wore it really long until I got to Parris Island.

 

[BrewerinBR]

passedpawn .... Paris Island? Your a Marine!

I used to have a pair of jean bells that my sister ripped open along the seam and sewed in triangle wedges I cut from an american flag.

I showed up at Cape May wearing them and my hair past my belt.... did they have some fun with me.

I was a hippie... and on a mission ....

 

[Tupperwolf]

I recently visited Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park near Haight/Ashbury in SF on a Sunday afternoon. The place was rocking with a huge drum circle, dozens of people dancing or spinning, juggling or just stumbling around, drunk or high as a kite. Lots of folk just having a great time, it's not something you really see often in the world.

 

[Dan]

So Jefferson Airplane played at Woodstock in 1969, I was five years old so didn't have a clue. Music transcends generations though. Heck this is 2013 and Woodstock was over four decades ago but the music is still part of our culture. Music must never die... If it did, then Bye Bye Miss American Pie but it hasn't ladies and gentlemen.

 

[mcbaumannerb]

Don't know how I missed this tread in the beginning, but no surprise to find Dan at the heart of it!

I would definitely have loved to have been coming of age at that time. I doubt I'd have been a hippie (hate when my hair gets long and beer and wine is the strongest drug for me) but I would have lived at the music festivals back then! To hear some of the great acts in there prime would have been nirvana for me.

"remember what the dormouse said"

 

[unionrdr]

I was 13 when Woodstock happened. My bro & his buddy wouldn't let me go with them. And I was big for my age then. They wound up coming home,'cause the New York State throughway was already closed at that point.

 

[Dan]

Traffic problems in the late 60's? Guess that is a never ending story 4+ decades later.

At least the music survived.. and it will outlive us.

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,they still use some of the old songs in movies & such,like the Fokkers thing. Some things are just timeless.