Is there nothing sadder than an aging hipster?

Question

Got the line from Austin Powers, sorry, but isn't it true? The only things positive from the 60's are civl rights, man on the moon, some good music like the Beatles, Cream, Motown. There are probably some other things, but I can't think of them. The counterculture is tired. I understand questioning authority, examining your life, but when that is your sole prioty and becomes a total pervertion of prespective, aren't they missing the point?

Thanks for the answers so far. I'd like to add some detail if I can. I beleive there are some from the generation that still believe that any change for the sake of change is good. That any authority is pure explotation and simply put making money is bad. Not all of course. And I admire activition. That is what the US should be about. To answer my question, probably apathy. And I do respect older generations, mostly the WWII generation. They went through the most trying times of the 20th century and stood up for the country and themselves with dignity.

Answer 1

I can't say that it is. The 60s were a time of real questioning, and the people who saw that things were wrong, that the government was doing what it shouldn't, took actual strides to make it stop and to make people aware of it.

Today? Well, we've got all sorts of civil liberties violations and our government breaking the law, and people are so afraid, so full of fear, that they aren't doing anything. The largest issue to get people to vote is homosexual marriage. Without that, the voting stalls would have been ghost towns.

I wish we had a little of the vim and vigor of that past decade today.

Answer 2

Many of the hippies of old have been swallowed up by the very culture that they were rebelling against. The few that I have met surviving the drug laden self indulgent pool that spawned them have become an establishment of their own making. Their voices are no longer herd above the masses but has been swallowed up by the aging abyss of time that wears down even the most determined of us. They are heads of corporation, Scientists,Christian leaders, Firemen and all the other professions that make up the world, Has anything changed? well that is a question for smarter brains and free er thinkers than I, I hope and Pray that some terrible catastrophe has been averted or some improper direction was corrected by all of the hoopla created by the "in crowd". Aging hipsters are inevitable, the only sadness would be if their collective voices accomplished nothing and the world wasn't changed even a bit.

Answer 3

What's sadder is a young person thinking his generation is better than the one that's older. Also sad: kids wearing the same dreary outfits, taking on the same attitudes, listening to the same mediocre music, and then pretending they are "rebels" and "indiv idualists". And even sadder: loading themselves with consumer products while blaming the older generation for destroying the environment.

Answer 4

You forgot Woodstock, and I'm sure what you describe my be true of some. Growing up in that era gave most of us a certain mind set. We have strayed to the idea of capitalism to survive, but deep down, we were and still are the peace/love generation. I hope I never lose that attitude.

Answer 5

There are lots of things sadder than an aging hipster. The first that comes to mind is a burgeoning conservative. Now that's REALLY sad.

Answer 6

yea it's pretty sad. Like when women that are turning fifty and still keep their hair like they had it in highschool.

Then again being a rebel is supposed to keep people on edge right?

Answer 7

Oh, very much so. And of course nothing angers and offends them like you questioning their authority to tell you what to do.

Answer 8

I have to go with an aging preppie. Those of you who live, year-round, in resort areas, like me, will know the type.

Answer 9

Nothing good came from the 1960s unless you like "civil rights " which is nothing but screw whitey.