During the 60's Hippies changed the outcome of the Vietnam war by promoting Love not WAR-where R U NOW?

Question

Most people would concur to say that Drug use came into being because of the psychodelic era that was generated by Rock-n-Roll and anti-war movement offered an escape through drug use and that it was also a way to tell the establishment to buzz off-we weren't going to take it any more-This was exclamated during a time that America was reaching it's peak and was considerably respected because of the views of The Baby Boomer Generation who protested out loud and in unison that we did not want to kill or die for a war effort that we didn't believe in-With the escalated activity of late I wonder where all of these flower children have gone-I mean the violence and sex that proliferate the music today is not the message I feel that the world can respect from America and what they are seeing are our children-Americas future-involved in Gang violence-Gangsta Rap-and Explicitly Sexual messages-is this the America that you want to live in? Is it OK because your kids say it is the style? CHRIST!

Answer 1

It died with John Lennon it seems. If he were alive today, I bet there would be more of a reaction to this war and we would hear the real voice behind the people, because he would bring it all out.

We need more people who care!

Answer 2

I am of the same generation as Randy D., but saw things then from the opposite side. I never got into the drug scene, the long hair style, or calling police "pigs."

Interestingly, I now agree with everything Randy D. says about that period. The hippie movement was lazy, narcissistic, selfish ... and, oh yes, opposed to war, especially if they had to fight the war and it wasn't a good war in the first place.

Sadly, I see the hippie movement as the genesis of widespread drug addiction (and the associated crime, poverty, violence, etc.). I don't see their net effect on society as salutary at all. And in particular, I agree with Randy D. that the liberal media (news and Hollywood) are continuing to brainwash the current younger generation.

As an example of liberal media, I love The Daily Show, but Jon Stewart is getting more and more extreme with his sarcastic, left-wing humor. (Compare the way he interviewed Al Gore to the way he interviewed the chairman of the RNC. It was hardly "fair and balanced" to pander to the former and be confrontational with the latter.) Stewart argues that he doesn't have to be fair, because it's only a humor show. BUT THE DAILY SHOW IS WHERE MANY YOUNG PEOPLE GET THEIR NEWS. And his bashing of anything conservative (or moderate) keeps getting more extreme and mean-spirited as his audience becomes progressively more brainwashed and lusts for the blood of the non-liberals. It often sounds more like a mob than an audience at a comedy show.

But I digress.
Bottom line: Let's NOT bring back the hippies. Let's just hope we can recover from the negatives they have brought to our society.

Answer 3

Dude,

All those people are 50 now. Most of them are burned out. Check out the documentary THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND. They're teaching community college and writing bad poetry.

The reason we (I, being 28, include myself) aren't overreacting is because our generation wasn't brought up under the false pretenses of the 50s, and therefore we have nothing to rebel against.

And as far as Gangsta Rap, I think you're missing the point - the freedoms that those "hippies" fought for included the umbrella that gangsta rap falls under. How is it any different than the Beatles singing about LSD or "Happiness is a Warm Gun?"

I too am slightly surprised there aren't more student revolts, but i think that proves the radicalism of the 60s to be ridiculous, thought perhaps righteous, at least in the way it was carried out.

Answer 4

I would love to see a new generation promoting peace. Each generation has its own strengths and its own challenges.
What hippies did in the 60s, was right for that time. It took youthful energy and courage. The university students were radical then. I'm sure the youth of today have energy and courage, too. Now I think they're competing for marks that will put them at the top of the heap so they can earn more money and get the material goods they want.
I think that the drugs of the sixties led the kids to think of other things, like how to bring about a higher consciousness. It wasn't a materialistic time. Maybe another time like that will come about. Maybe today's youth will have children who care about a peaceful planet and universal love.
Peace.

Answer 5

First, the Hippie movement did not change the outcome of the Vietnam War. That American government made the HUGE mistake of fighting a war it had no intention of winning. Funny how a nation the size of a sliver wound up winning the war? Because liberalists and hippies decided that a war is not worth risking their own lives so others can enjoy their freedom.
Look at how we became wimps to little terrorists regimes. THe Beruit attack in the 80's, the USS Cole attack with NO retaliation, 9/11 and all anyone hears is that we should remain neutral. We tried to remain neutral in the first two World Wars. Didn't work.
People want their freedom but not willing to fight for it. If you won't fight for your freedom, you don't deserve to have it. I don't my boss from my last job he should stay in Canada if he doesn't like to fight for his freedom.
If he calls, I will help him pack his bags. I wouldn't want someone like him defending this country.

I'm too young for the hippie, but grew up on the edge.

Answer 6

Well, being one of those "hippies" of the '60's, I can say "here I am". But I can also say, I don't know how the first part of your quesion lives through your historical "recollection" of how we turned the tide of the Vietnam war and how we "overpowered" "the Establishment", and came to the conclusion of your question or comments on how bad today's "music" and violence is. The truth is, as my first hand memory recalls it, we just wasted our minds and morals and formative adult years by "rock 'n' rollin' " and smoking dope and having sex everywhere and "revolting" without having any more a clue as to what we were rebelling against then than today's "X Generation" or whatever they're called nowadays know what they're talking about. We were suckered by the liberal media and democrat party, and all the affiliated media still in operation today. Today, the "younger generation", by whatever name it's called, is just as ignorant and just as suckered by the liberal media as we were back in the 1960's, and they suffer from their horrible excuse of music, and violence, because no one is taking serious concern about their future. People are just trying to manipulate them and make money off of them, and they're succeeding. God help us all, because we, the hippies of the '60's, are the parents of this new generation, and the powers in force in the entertainment and media arenas are way ahead of us in programming young minds, and they're doing one HELL of a job. God Bless our young. God Bless you.

Answer 7

Are you high now? Go smoke another one hippie man.
True America has changed, but how would druged out hippies gain respect for America?

Answer 8

most running business or living in big house
all sold out it appears
consciousness no longer exist most true sixes destroyed by flower power = tool to divert thinking
very much needed now

Answer 9

Well they reckon New agers are the next hippies. Let them speak and let them be heard.

Answer 10

They are now promoting Viagra and PETA!