Through all the years, through all the noise, what settles out from all the chaos, is that the lifestyle that the hippies were trying to move society towards, was the absolute honest and real way that most thoughtful people today are now understanding that we should be living - a life in line with nature and Mother Earth.
Forgetting all the drugs and the Charlie Manson psyops, the desire of many of the youth of the 60's and 70's was to live a freer, less encumbered life than that of their parents. The huge movement away from the industrialized farming started with the hippies. Care for the environment started with the hippies. An economy based on bartering and away from the banks, credit and debt was started with the hippies. Social equality, sharing with the less fortunate and placing less emphasis on Madison Avenue and more on community started with the hippies.
I laugh when I read prepper sites, and natural food sites. Growing food and selling it at farmers markets or cooperatives all started with the hippie movement. Using natural herbs and oils for healing and well-being started with the hippies. Meditation and yoga for spiritual growth and peace started with the hippies - and we did it without charging for it. People would just put up a flier and get together without the head trips and money worship of today. I can't even afford to go to yoga classes anymore.
I know this to be true, because I was there - I lived it and it was a beautiful thing.
We didn't have cellphones or laptops and we started the mantra to throw out your TV. We didn't wear make-up and spend money we didn't have on the latest fashion - we made our own, outside the mainstream. We didn't go to beauty salons or barbers - we cut our own hair and even made our own shampoos and soaps - all later co-opted by good old capitalism. I remember when no one wore Birkenstocks except hippies, and boy, were they ever scorned! Things really started to degenerate in the mid to late 70's. Drug dealers, shysters, con-men religious guru types and more came on the scene to steal it all away.
Yes, we smoked marijuana but it was in a community way - people brought what they had and shared it. It wasn't really a commodity in those days and all that changed with cocaine. I know it's hard for some people to understand because that all changed one day in 1969, when we saw this everywhere:
The controllers were letting you know that this is what will happen to your children if they become a hippie. This was the death sentence of the hippie movement and what has resulted today - GM foods, toxic air & water, people fined for growing their own food, so-called "organic" produce from multi-billion dollar corporations.
Vincent Bugliosi certainly did his job right with his "Helter Skelter" trial all directed for the masses to become very, very afraid of anything hippie. Sound familiar? This event set the stage for so much that is out of control today. It stole from us our simple sovereign human right to exist.
I would go back to that time in a heartbeat. Maybe most of us were naive, but we trusted each other and wanted to build a society based on cooperation - not competition. That all came to an end through the hype of the MSM that the hippies were all about sex and drugs - the real story was never told. We were a threat to the consumer culture that has now taken over everything. I can't even buy a pair of pajamas for my grandson without seeing some sort of advertising on it.
I don't know what happened to most of my generation - a lot have died, lost hope and became very bitter or became part of the matrix. It was all part of the plan. What is going on today did not just happen overnight. It all started with Charlie and Vincent.
I remain hopeful that this too shall pass and the empire will end. We shall overcome...
