Should we bring back the 60s hippie movement?

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this may be controversial, but i believe they were more free and living to the full... you all have your own opinions... whats yours?

ohsheeT · Accepted Answer

Well I'll tell you what I've been waiting for it because our country would be in a much better place right now in the sixties there were protests when our elected officials did something stupid there were protests if they were trying to pass a bill that was out of control there was a protest for everything it's because people were more real they cared about where we were headed.

Think about it everybody called those hippies potheads stupid out of control they are the ones that got us to where we are at now in a positive way if it wasn't for them we who knows where we're going to be right now yes we need to bring back people to care for our kids in the future because that's what it's all about being steamrolled each and every day and we are just allowing it to happen and I don't understand that..

Our government right now is putting themselves into position to be all of our bankers do you understand what happens if they become our bank that means they can control our money they don't have to give it to us if they don't want to if we don't want to go out and buy a new car they don't have to let us buy a new car because they will control that

Everything that we do by has to go through them first it has to be approved by them first...

If they control your money they control everything about you and then that means everything about all of us and we cannot have that

Here I am talking shit all the time about our government because I think they're wrong

Now just because I do that they might not like it because I'm rocking the boat

But now I go into a grocery store to buy my weekly groceries I put them out on the counter and they say sorry your card number did not go through try again tomorrow try again the next day they have full control of everything we do once they have our money

Everything will have a receipt to it that means if I see a motorcycle that I want to buy I can't go out and just buy it and pay cash for it I have to use their money currency that whatever they decide we're using and that's just totally wrong too but there is no more just going and buying something if you want it there's no more being free with the money that you earned from your job because you worked hard there's no more of that

And we need some hippie some leaders I don't care what you call them to start protesting because we all need to protest

DrPepper12 · Accepted Answer

Their political activism before they sold out would be welcome... And the music, drugs m free love...

OlderAndWiser · Answer

You are 16 years old so everything you know about hippies is what you have read and seen in the media. Movements such as that tend to be romanticized by the media and the portrayals that you have read have probably not been accurate. At your age, romantic ideals are very appealing so I do understand why you might be enamored with hippies.

The most important thing you need to know about the hippie lifestyle is that roughly 99% of people who were once hippies eventually left that lifestyle. Why do you think they did that?

WindAtMyBack · Answer

What for?

First of all, the 60s didn't happen. Or as it's sometimes said, the 60s happened in the 70s.

It's like the news. What you see is the exception, not the rule. There were almost no hippies in the 60s. Most of the ones that did exist were at the very end of the 60s. For example if you look at pictures of Woodstock, most of those guys were only just starting to grow their hair long.

That was near the end of 1969 and much of what documentaries portray as the 60s was only just starting. Those documentaries show the EXCEPTIONS, not anything that was remotely normal

Most of the young people in the 60s were more like what you probably envision as the 50s. Really straight, short hair, conservative dress, conservative values (extremely conservative compared to today). They didn't do drugs. Almost all went to church.

I was actually in San Francisco in the summer of 1967. That was the Summer of Love. I don't actually remember seeing any hippies. I might have seen a few, but not enough to stand out. Hippies were an extremely small minority in the 60s.

I'm not sure what it is that you want to bring back. Much of the change that took place in the 60s and 70s remained. So it doesn't need to be brought back because it never left.

Do you want to bring back the drug culture? Trust me, you don't want that. It was a train wreck. You want to bring back "free love"? Well, it's debatable if that ever happened in the first place. Just like the "hook up culture" today doesn't really exist.

"more free and living to the full"

Yea, it was a hell of a lot of fun. But there were serious downside. People delayed their lives. They eventually grew out of that and got serious about life. Probably most people look back with fond memories. I do too. But I know full well that we tend to remember the good times and forget the bad times. The drugs especially had some very serious negative consequences.

There is no reason why you can't have fun today. There is no reason why you shouldn't live your life to the fullest. Just don't neglect other important parts of your life.

As I said, much of that lifestyle never left. You have a LOT more social freedom now than people did in the 60s.

nolabels · Answer

I was at the very tail end of that generation and trend of lifestyle.
It was pretty much over by the time I came of age.

I believe that many intentions of the time were good, but not sustainable.

It's certainly a complicated subject.

Should it return?
In some ways, sure, with a nod to responsibility and accountability.
In other ways, it was a bit too ignorant of its consequences.

Again, it's a very complicated topic.

I'm no expert on the topic, just a guy who witnessed it on TV to some extent as a little kid and then experienced its fading away as I became a teenager.

9in_Serpent · Answer

Oh yes definitely!!! I am have actually became more of a hippie as i have become more educated and wise over the years lol. What this world really needs is a movement a tsunami wave of love and acceptance to conquer all this hate and toxicity around us in the world today that is dividing us all and destroying this beautiful earth!

Anonymous · Answer

The lack is moral doctrine in today's societies is not doing it any favours. And you are suggesting leaning more into this. It doesn't sound like a good thing but it's increasingly your world so you'll have to deal with it.
Just be careful what you wish for.

Dargil · Answer

How did the hippie movement make America better? I accept that the civil Rights movement was absolutely necessary. Back then things were nowhere near as good as they look from here. I also realize that women needed to be empowered and to be delivered from control by the patriarchy. Even though I'm a conservative, I'll say that.

TheGreatSardine · Answer

I think we should bring it back as they were living there lives not worrying about anything and just having fun after all u only get one live

RHK36 · Answer

The newer generations could never lol. The movements have their moment because of society at the time. The newer generation need to have their moment already. As it stands right now we feel more broken than ever. Every empire eventually falls and maybe it's the US turn. People in the comments are right though, we need a new wave of changes for the better.

Anonymous · Answer

What is stopping you from running around like an idiot? The previous idiots that did this ultimately stopped doing it for a good reason thou.

They discovered in practice it didn't work and their communes collapsed because far too few people wanted to be producers.

RebelinSteel · Answer

A wander around Cambridge and its outlying areas over the summer sort of points to it never disappearing.

Levin · Answer

Spiritual and new age movements are going through something of a resurgence. The task is to wed these ideas to 'real life'. Having genuine integrity and working from a place of honesty is extremely difficult. We talk about onlyfans whoring, but we whore ourselves out when we allow our soul to be sucked out working for a paycheck. Got to earn a living, somehow. Effectively things have become harder than ever with the cost of living and housing crisis. All by design of course.

Breanna_nonbinary · Answer

The problem with any movement is that when we see them in history we only see the extreme parts of the movement. However the ideas and heart of the movement is never lost just becomes less evident. The equal rights movement never really went away it just took on different forms. It’s still alive. It lives on in the people and that lived in that era and then is passed down to the next generation.

WhitneySnow · Answer

I agree with you but with more respect for women and LGBTQIA+ people

SixFootSexy · Answer

Take a look at your grandparent's generation, the Boomers. The leadership they elected, the welfare they promoted, squandering your future and the future of this country. Now, knowing how that ended... should we bring back the hippie movement?

exitseven · Answer

A bunch of entitled, hypocritical selfish dirtbags. They really screwed up the country in a lot of ways. Everyone thinks it was all peace and love but if you saw it up close it was really like the way it was in the Forrest Gump movie.

BetaBucks · Answer

As long as they don't dress and talk like morons, I'd be all for it. I have way more in common with hippies than either of our political parties.

buzzword · Answer

It already exits... Look at all the open air drug markets all over the country. One example would be Kensington Philadelphia

MisterWack · Answer

Peace, Love, and Togetherness are not bad on paper.

Agape93 · Answer

If you want sure. I'm not a hippy, or peaceful, but I'm all for freedom.

BCRanger10 · Answer

Good grief,  no.  We have so much damage left in their wake that we need to fix. If anything, we need to completely reverse what they did.

V_Injector · Answer

We have woketards... They're like f***** gay trans retarads that hold some of the same ideals as hippies.

Anonymous · Answer

The only thing I agree with was that they were anti-war. Other than that they were just as big of POSs as the liberals of today.

From what I heard from the vets of the time, these were the same people who opposed the war and then turned around to call the veterans "baby-killers" (ironic when compared to today) while being too retarded to remember that many of them were drafted and had no choice but to fight in a war so pointless that LBJ had to false flag us into.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

The 60's had their own motivations and frustrations. A copy will not work. But something ''Hippie-like'' that reflects today's realities will be helpful. And it actually exists.

RedInnocent69 · Answer

Did it ever end? I mean plenty of people sleep with whoever they can, I legal weed is increasingly available.

BobbieBoy666 · Answer

I'm already having a nude 60's 70's hippie nude movement at the moment. 💕😇

Makeushiver · Answer

Far out. I think it's a hot idea.

Anonymous · Answer

You can try. But I thing your generation (s) are far too materialistic for it be an actual HIPPIE movement. You might be able to get them together and just be lazy.

Anonymous · Answer

the hippie movement is the birth of all this cancel culture garbage we see today

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

Wouldn't hurt, especially if the hippies would occasionally bathe or shower !!!

Iron_Man · Answer

That’s like bringing back Charles Manson he made all that hippie movement

Maybeyoutoo · Answer

No. We need to bring back the 50s

chrissykerdock · Answer

how do you do that

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Absolutely!! Those were great times!

MasterKS · Answer

It will destroy the social rules once again!

EnjoytheDay777 · Answer

I like the colors

eagle1951 · Answer

hell no

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