{"id":402,"date":"2017-02-03T00:03:04","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:03:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:03:04","slug":"the-revolution-will-not-be-televised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/guest-columns\/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The<br \/>\nRevolution Will Not Be Televised <br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>by Harrell Graham<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nsheer magnitude of the isolation of suburbia and the nuclear<br \/>\nfamily&mdash;rows upon rows of cookie-cutter homes housing families<br \/>\nuprooted from the extended families and close knit communities of not<br \/>\nso long ago.  Not so long ago you could walk outside your home and<br \/>\nsee your family and friends and a bustling activity of people outside<br \/>\ntalking and interacting in what was once real communities.   Now all<br \/>\nthe suburban landscape offered was row upon row of houses holding<br \/>\npeople who didn&rsquo;t even know the names of their neighbors.  People<br \/>\nwhose sole occupation after coming home from school or work was<br \/>\nstaring, mesmerized, at a glowing screen.\n<\/p>\n<p>How<br \/>\nvery strange, to be living amidst people without knowing them.  For<br \/>\nmillions of years we lived among family and friends, in communities<br \/>\nwhere we shared existence, shared food, helped each other, laughed,<br \/>\ncried and died with each other.   Go to Thailand, for example, and<br \/>\nsee how happy a place can be when people are not stoned on computers,<br \/>\nTV&rsquo;s, Prozac, caffeine and where so much of life and<br \/>\ninteraction&mdash;community&mdash;takes place outside.\n<\/p>\n<p>But<br \/>\nnow we were sold the personal automobile which enabled us to<br \/>\ntransport ourselves home from far-away, meaningless jobs, driving<br \/>\nhome inside vehicles which accentuated our aloneness, and, with<br \/>\ngarage door openers allowed us to drive those vehicular boxes right<br \/>\ninside our housing boxes, all without having to acknowledge or<br \/>\ninteract with&#8211;or often even see&#8211;our neighbors.\n<\/p>\n<p>This<br \/>\nwas a prescription for madness, depression, loneliness, spiritual<br \/>\nemptiness and exhaustion.    (See the excellent book, &ldquo;The<br \/>\nGeography of Nowhere&rdquo; about how the automobile killed mass transit<br \/>\nand created suburbia which killed true communities.)  But it also was<br \/>\na potential gold mine for the drug companies.  All those depressed<br \/>\nand spiritually hungry people are going to need a message in a<br \/>\nbottle, a mothers little helper, a pick me up, a-bring-me-down, a<br \/>\nsmoother of bumps, a tonic, an elixir, a mood &lsquo;elevator&rsquo; (what<br \/>\ngoes up must come down).\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nrevolution will not be televised, because there will be no<br \/>\nrevolution.  Everyone is too happy and placid to question or to fight<br \/>\nor to take a stand on an important issue.<\/p>\n<p>Take<br \/>\nyour pill, sit back, relax, and enjoy your drug-induced passivity.<br \/>\nChill out, man.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nrevolution will not be televised.\n<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: Harrell Graham<br \/>\nViews: 4688<br \/>\nTopic:9\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Revolution Will Not Be Televised by Harrell Graham The sheer magnitude of the isolation of suburbia and the nuclear family&mdash;rows upon rows of cookie-cutter homes housing families uprooted from the extended families and close knit communities of not so long ago. 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