{"id":97,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/a-neo-hippy-movement\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:38","slug":"a-neo-hippy-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/ask-the-old-hippie\/a-neo-hippy-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"A Neo-Hippy Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tI was just wondering if you think it is possible to accomplish a neo-hippy movement as great and as intense as the summer of love? Is there anyway that you can see the hippies of this generation molding together to unleash the essence of flower power all over again. If so, enlighten us. <\/span><\/p>\n

Jazzerous and Jannyfire<\/p>\n

A lot has happened since the summer of love in 1967. Unfortunately, we can
\nnever go back to those days. There was a certain innocence with which we
\nentered that year of great change. Today that innocence no longer exists –
\nespecially now that children are afraid of what might happen in their own
\nschools. <\/span><\/p>\n

The combination of events that flowed into the summer of ’67 are unlikely to
\nbe repeated again. A postwar generation coming of age, draft age kids going
\nto a new war far away in Asia, the spiritually hollow affluence of the most
\npowerful nation on earth (worse now), the sudden mass production of a new psychedelic
\ndrug, LSD, the opening up of several million minds to infinite
\npossibilities, the colorful emergence of a new subculture – hippies, the
\nwords and music of a generation ready for change, the positive attitudes and
\nvibes and feeling of brotherhood, the growing awareness of eastern
\nphilosophies completely at odds with the American consumerist mentality.<\/p>\n

All this, combined with our youthful optimism contributed to a feeling that
\nwe were the future, that we were going to completely change society into a
\nhippie utopia. Of course we were naive. Naive about our own limitations,
\nabout the power structure of society, about how to organize ourselves. And
\nthen we were all on our own trips, too. The drug scene took many of our
\nicons. We learned the futility of fighting the system. Those that did
\nended up in jail or underground or dead. There never was a cohesive
\nstrategy. Even though it was them vs. us, we could never get us to
\nagree.<\/p>\n

However, the lasting impact of the summer of love and the flower people has
\nbeen more subtle. The memes (concepts) we promoted spread around the world
\nand have instilled themselves in the subconscious of the species. These are
\nreflected in some of the famous sayings of the time:<\/p>\n

Make Love, Not War
\nPeace Now
\nSave the Planet
\nNo Nukes!
\nand many more.<\/p>\n

The point is the collective unconsciousness of our species is still
\nabsorbing and processing this information. It creates a lot of cognitive
\ndissonance among us. That is, we now Question Authority far more often,
\nwe don’t believe everything we hear, we think for ourselves, and we have
\nmore of a conscience about what we do.<\/p>\n

It is this conscience that seems to have jumped a generation and now appears
\nin young (neo) hippies. The sad fact is that the world situation really hasn’t
\nchanged much. The same power structure exists. The need to respond to the
\nworld situation is as great as ever. In fact this is what has evolved over
\nthe last three decades. The media has shown us that the problems of our
\nplanet are far more serious and long term than those of our neighborhood.
\nOur consciousness has expanded to where we now worry about people we’ve
\nnever met in countries we’ve never been to. This sensitivity is something
\nnew to our species. It belies the us and them notion with which our
\ngovernments like to brainwash us. THERE IS ONLY US! THIS IS OUR PLANET!
\nWhat we do will determine the future of the human race. If we let hate and
\nfear rule the world, we are in for a catastrophic millenium. It is YOUR
\nGENERATION, the new hippies who must spread the word about LOVE and PEACE
\nand the alternatives open to us. Those who hate and fear see nothing but
\nhate and fear around them. We must open their eyes as time is running out
\nfor us.<\/p>\n

I can see a new movement emerging if we have a single uniting cause. I once
\nthought the marijuana movement might do it, but the $18 billion being spent
\non the war on drugs is hard to counter. I think what might do it is if
\nthere is a draft to fight the war in Kosovo. Then I think this draft age
\ngroup of 17-19 year olds will finally open their mouths before being sent to
\ndie in some distant land just to help some aging military industrial
\nsocieties save face by destroying another military industrial society ruled
\nby a megalomanic.<\/p>\n

One thing we have on our side now, which didn’t exist in the ’60s (in it’s
\npresent form) is the Internet! Our ability to organize and communicate is
\ngreatly enhanced, and once we coordinate our efforts we can become a truly
\neffective force in this society. Hippyland is here to help facilitate this
\ngoal, as are many other websites. We await the cause, we await your call.<\/p>\n

Peace,
\nThe Old Hippy<\/p>\n

Posted by: skip
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I was just wondering if you think it is possible to accomplish a neo-hippy movement as great and as intense as the summer of love? Is there anyway that you can see the hippies of this generation molding together to unleash the essence of flower power all over again. If so, enlighten us. Jazzerous and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[48,65,137],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-the-old-hippie","tag-flower-power","tag-hippie-movement","tag-young-hippies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}