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If you have cable there is a program on Hippies right now
(8-10 pm) eastern today. Repeats tonight at 12-2sm.
As one of the original hippies i'm interested to see how
they portray us.
I saw that a few months ago it was interesting and a fairly balanced documentary and lots of interviews with the ones still
alove. I already know much of the period so nothing new but was interesting to see how it was presented. I think they should have interviewed Bill but no such luck. LOL
And Bill for the interview you could have worn your mushroom shirt.
(grin)
Kevin
I was just one of millions back then, and I was just an average guy, not one to do anything unusually outrageous. What is sad is that so many "sold out to the system" as we called it - abandoned the values and culture. For them it was probably a fad.
There were good and bad aspects of the culture, as is the case with all cultures, I suppose. Each of us picked and chose what we embraced. One of the aspects, of course, was long hair! Sadly, few embrace it now. I've seen a few documentaries on the era, and many who they interview no longer have long hair. However, some do, and it's great to see graying hippies with long flowing manes!
Bill
.....anyone notice that the next two programs in the lineup were about drugs? stereotyping??
I noticed that the first major topic covered in the programme was LSD, so it would not surprise me. I changed it after about thirty minutes, so I do not know if the rest of the programme was so focused on drugs.
Tracy
Drugs were a part of it, you know. One of the concepts was that certain drugs would make people more open and expand the mind. Not all drug use was the terrible thing that people are brainwashed to believe nowadays.
I watched it and found the show very biased against drugs.
I never used drugs but I also know that Marijuanna is alot
safer than tobacco but tobacco is legal and pot is not.
Never mind that tobacco has 625+ ingredients some
of which are illegal to to sell outside of a cigagrette.
The show glossed over the main events of the era including
the assasination of Robert Kennedy, the assasination of
Martin Luther King, the protestst against the war,
the civil rights movement, and the music.
While I started growing my hair long when the Beatles
entered the stage I never tried drugs and found
the idea of something LSD too scary to even try.
IMHO one of the most crucial events of the era
was Watergate which came along and crushed the
spirit of entire generation. The show was biased and
seemed to purposely skip over that.
A previous poster was complaining about how people
with long hair sold out. I wouldn't say it was
selling out, it was more like pounding the non-conformists
into conforming. This from someone who got tosseed from
school and jobs for refusing to cut my hair over the years.