I was in high school from 65-69 so came along at the time of partying, dancing, great music. Had a baby in 1970 so I had responsiblities early, but still found time to do alot of what is mentioned...but we do get older and things do change. I feel that there are some good docs on you tube on this time period. I am grateful to have been a part of it all.
What happened fellow boomers? I am an aging Hippie and still an activist. I got out of my sick state of Apathy after they killed Lennon. You can have your material goods but they won't mean nothing if the world continues the way it is going. We must turn things around now. Never let the dream die or give into Fear. We have the power to still change the world
thomdathom Yes sadly many in my generation sold out, got their priorities out of order an i am ashamed of them. I still believe that Peace is better than War an i know there are still hundreds of thousands my age that still care an trying to wake up the fragile planet. I have put up a challenge many times to my fellow boomers that have become yuppies but none have yet to explain their actions. I have been ridiculed and attacked for not caring about being politically correct or the status quo an daring to believe that we can still make a difference. It is up to all ages to stand against intolerance an injustices.
The American Dream is fine but not when it requires running over people and being a greedy yuppie in the process. It won''t mean anything if we don't have a planet to live on. For me , that dream is dead and i am okay with that. Can't take anything with you at the end and what we do for others and the planet will count more in eternity. I don't have to keep up with the Status Quo or the Jones's
@Randy R I'd love to talk to you since you were a hippie in the 1960's! It's for research I am doing! Please private message me or email raina@LutzNutrition.ca
You can email me at randypw6967@ gmail.com Being a military brat, I got to live out most of my 60's liberation in the 80's. Still an aging Hippie inside. It isn't about sex, drugs and rock an roll. It is about being aware and wanting to help make this world a better place. Love an Peace is much bigger than a decade or generation. I am ashamed of many in my generation. My email is already on profile. Just realize that as a recovering alcoholic addict this is the most dangerous month of the year and I am desperately trying to sell 600 items. Time is not on my side
Raina Lutz Check under this video on Google Plus or email me at randypw6967@gmail.com Please realize that this is the most dangerous and difficult month for me and I am desperately trying to sell 600 items. Just got put on disability and it has put me in a very rough spot.
I did a speech over this today for my public speaking class. Wish I would've found this video last night, but my professor said I had the most interesting and well designed speech so I'll take it.
I am by no means a hippy but this year I purchased a 1967 VW Splitscreen 13 Window Deluxe. I love vintage VWs and I love that era and the music it gave us. I use the bus to escape for a few hours, driving while listening to the Doors or Dylan...then back home to reality.
Far out! This rules. I was born in 1945 and went to Woodstock, so I can say I definitely lived through the sixties. This video IS the sixties. Reminds me of my old days smoking "the weed" with my hippy friend Pat.
@@bobsilver3983 OK Then Bob!! Let me just get out of my 1970 Challenger! You can’t miss it- orange with a wide white racin stripe!! Lord we’re Those the Days or What !!✌️
My generation! My name is Alex, and I was born at the very begining of the 60,s I was 2 years old when JFK was shot and 9 at the time of woodstock. The 60,s tothe 80,s had the best bands and best music!!
Many of the hippies fought in Nam. Many had brothers in Nam. And some Hippies was old enough to have fought in WW2 while others was soldiers, including Timothy Leary who was at Westpoint.
I'd love to talk to you @softail springer ! I'm hoping to talk to hippies for research I am doing! Please private message me or email raina@LutzNutrition.ca
Very good project! Im so proud of you. You interviewed real folks! Wow... Just dont drop out. Thats no way to be. But tune in to your own inner truth whatever it may be. Turn on to yourself and find yourself then you can feel others. It works that way. This is such a great little doc you made. Thank you for sharing your work with the world. I hope you did well with this in school. PEACE
😊✌️🌈 I love being a self made hippie, I am a 60 year old and I enjoy being able to be what ever I want to be. I take pot and and wish I could find others who are the same. Love from Marysville, California
I’m 35 and I do have a good job, but at the same time I still don’t see why I have to act like a boring stiff. This whole narrative that you have to settle down and have kids has never made sense to me. I mean if that’s what you want to do, then by all means, but I just don’t see why it’s necessary. I don’t see why you can’t just enjoy life, travel and have fun. Especially if you have a good job, I feel like in that case you earned the right to do whatever you want.
It’s quite sad how the counter culture participants appear to have fallen back into the same life as their parents. These boomers had children, and like their parents instilled the values they rebelled against at one time right into their children, whether consciously or unconsciously. I would have thought things would have changed after the cultural shift of the late 60s. Yet to this day we are continuing the drug war, proxy wars, racism, misogyny, queerphobia, child abuse, consumerism, wealth inequality, and so on and so forth. Inter-generational trauma is real. They all sang about power in the hands of the people. It’s been over 50 years, what happened? Going to blame having children and responsibilities? I’m sorry then that you had children, whether you chose to or whether it was an accident.
Turn on, tune in, drop out sounds all cool and all, but try doing that when you have to eat, find a place to live, and maybe even have offspring. Don't do it, stay sober, stay alert, stay healthy, stay kind, stay compassionate for others, and don't intentionally inflict pain on another. That's what it's really all about kids.
man they sold out, im 23 and im fucking tired of this backward ass world. everyone thinks with their ego instead of their heart,constant greed, individualism,addictions,over 150 governments on 1 planet? it doesnt make sense i feel like im gooooiing crazy. i dont even care about wealth anymore i just 1 person in this world to tell me that they love me, i feel misunderstood
We were all lost trying to find the meaning of life.Finally at 35 I ACCEPTED JESUS AS MY SAVIOR AND FOUND THE REASON FOR BEING PUT HERE.I Later became a missionary to 🇭🇹 Haiti EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR
Sigh. Take me back to where it all began. This less than 10 minute video clearly and somewhat lovingly hits most of the high points of how some of the Silent generation and the early Boomers began a revolutionary idealistic movement that was a real treat for the Jones generation like me and the early Gen X to grow up in. "I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I leave it up to you". The ideals of the movement continue to this day, have forever changed the world, are are still shaping our future. The environment, pollution, civil rights, equal rights, human rights, over-consumption, etc etc etc. Pretty darn good for a history class assignment. What level and what grade did you get? PS Your dad (and the prof) was great, you must've had a great home to grow up in. ✌️n♥️
I asked my dad that once. He experienced the 60s. He said they were very, very small in number. Nothing like the media portrays. He said most went on to the 70s and tried to live in hippie communes but the numbers dwindled and people went back to middle income America, just like the principles they sought to overcome. You see, teenagers and people in their early 20s are really naive and ignorant about the world.
It's not that they are naive and ignorant, that's your projections. They failed at their movement yes, totally. But what they did resonates throughout history and the world today. It will happen again and this time it will push through. That's what they were ignorant about, inflicting change in the society, they had no leaders who were able to spread their message.
popularized?We didn't become popularized we became a movement,we became a power for social change what the hell are you doing today that's worth a damn?You never know i might want to join.
really good video i enjoyed watching it. good camera work and editing. please don't take this the wrong way, but i feel the audio levels between the interviews, clips and voice overs could do with balancing a little. other than that great job, have clicked subscribe and look forward to more!
I was born after the sixties,1972,and am so envious of anyone that lived through the sixties.Bright colours, wonderful music, optimism for the future,Space race,free shops, diggers kitchen,end to racism,free love.Utopia.WTF happened.
It looks great when you study it from a historical context, but my parents went through it and they were rough times. Losing a president, MLK, getting involved with Vietnam which was terrible. The racial riots across cities in America. The main difference was people came out to protest in very large numbers because the government was drafting people into the war. Nowadays they have enough people who want to serve that the government doesn't need to draft. Otherwise people would have been apathetic overall like they are now. But maybe now things will change once people realize how bad things will be with the AI and digital dictatorship.
@@yourmother2739 I want to for sure. I would like to start an environmental community that functions a bit like a commune. We have too many places in the US that became ghost towns. It is time we bring them back to life.
Good video! Yeah it was a unique space and time there was just a special energy in the air. Seems like we've drifted back towards conformism and materialism All the amazing social changes that happened during the '60s have shifted And we appear to be moving backwards
Hi, I'm Alex and I'm also making a documentary for my history class. My documentary is about Woodstock and the counter culture. Would it be okay if I used some of your interviews? At this point in time, I'm not definitely sure that I would use them, but in the case that I did, I would need your permission. Thanks.
I think people's heads are more up in the air nowadays than they used to be with all the "knowledge" and all the pseudo-social platforms like i-phones and internet. People didn't have devices that kept them from each other. People would be closer together, not separated by technology. This all happened before all the wi-fi stuff, where people were more together than they are now, they were much closer to each other, things were localized, not world-wide. People are connected to each other online, but it's not the same as reality, actually seeing each other face to face and connecting on a real concrete level.
One thing that I might add: the Korean War happened 1950-3. Americans dreaded it after fighting WWII, and I think it stoked the antiwar feelings developing for the 1960s. Wars that end in a tie are not popular.
The death of JFK had nothing to do with the hippies. This is pure revisionism. The counterculture of the 60s was focused on a more peaceful world, a search for a better meaning of life, equal rights for all, and above all the freedom to pursue their vision of life (pursuit of happiness). They questioned the materialistic society they rightly perceived all around them and saw the government as the enemy of their freedom. Women were seen as partners in this new exploratory world, capable of taking their place along side of men due to their own unique strengths and abilities. Today's feminists with their war on men as about as far as one can get from the hippie chicks of the 60s. Tolerance, as the word is in use today where the government grants and enforces special rights for some people who are more equal or more deserving than others, would have been anathema to the hippies. The only thing they wanted was the government to leave them alone. What a long strange trip it's been.
They were the start of heavy drug use, feminized males, increased violence, a public school system that is a joke, disrespect of the United States which gave their sissy spoiled asses a great country that they brought morality to the maggot infested liberal attitude of a minority group of loud mouthed loons we have today. Good job hippies and thanks a bunch!
Chris - I was just about to post the same thing you said until I saw your post. The movement started a good year or so before JFK's assassination. That event may have helped to spur on the use of drugs and "outrageous" behaviour, etc. Drugs weren't even involved in the origins of the "movement" - I sort of think that drugs were introduced to derail the movement. Peace.
if everyone would turn off their laptop or computer and iphone together, then we could reachieve the impossible things of today. Getting together, family, and so on.
The hippie movement has never died, I’m 70 and lived that era and still do because the principles are still relevant today. WE HIPPIES CHANGED THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER!
If you do not mind my asking did you have children during the hippie movement? I enjoy watching documentaries about the summer of life. Trying to find documentaries regarding children of hippies but can't find much of anything.
@@linda9081 Hi Linda :) My Mom was a real hippie BUT she also kept a job as a teacher, held a mortgage, and provided a summer home out in the middle of nowhere where we lived a hippie life all summer long. Being a teacher she had summers off. A house to call home and a Mom who catered to the souls of us kids and all the people she came in contact with. She was a flower child Jesus hippie, she smoked but didn't do drugs. We had the best of both worlds. We had a goat as a house pet. Also two baby alligators, a turtle, and a wild raccoon who stayed friendly only for a short time. Hahaha ... could have been because of the alligators. My Mom is now in her 90s and that hippie attitude, still going strong. I didn't see her as a hippie when growing up and I actually had a real problem with her "never fight back" dedication to peace and reconciliation amongst adversaries. I've since come to realize "Hippie" means a lot more than communes and smoking pot. Hippie is a permanent state of mind and a beautiful condition of the heart. Thankfully my Mom had and still has both. I joined the party late but every moment of my life is lived in a state of soul expression that I learned firsthand from my super cool hippie mom. Thank you, Mom. :) P*E*A*C*E
@@linda9081Anna Runkle, AKA crappychildhoodfairy on UA-cam is a child of hippies and had her childhood on a commune. She speaks about this a bit on her channel. Needless to say it was a traumatizing experience for her as a child.
Some say the Hippies failed. Guess what, so has everyone else. The present system has failed and is falling apart. People was offered an alternative. It did not fail, humanity simply chose not to do it.
Spoiledl? lol you're talking about a tiny percentage of youth in the USA. What about the rest of the world? Do you think that this movement only happened in the States? I'm from the UK and we were far from spoiled. Either educate yourself or keep your thoughts to yourself. If you want a "spoiled" generation, look at the 80s or even right now - a bunch of consumers, plugged into the economic system (that is failing, btw), waiting for the next version of iPhone to come on the market. The Sixties generation actually got rid of much of their possessions and found ways of bypassing the economic system which is essentially a form of slavery (you don't believe that? then think about who controls the value of the paper that's in your wallet or purse - you? lol)
You have the hippies and the radicals mixed up. The hippies were not into protesting. Hippies just wanted to break from any politics. SDS and Yippies were the main groups in the streets against the war. Not the hippies
We know this; that no one gets out of here alive. A slow wake up process was required to pull the psychedelic wool over the eyes, man. There really was no disconnect. Separation: the delusion, being what it is was all wasted words in any attempt to ……..
Time for the 2015 revolution I,m trying to make a change and have created an internet social media in which the users become shareholders. Lets make it happen Cheers Mark
Watching this in June 2023. There have been over 300 mass murders in America this year. Indicating that not every generation is for peace and love. This new world of hate, killing, maiming is not what hippies nor God endorses. It is a disgusting world in 2023. Where did the love go ?????
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If shrooms were legal, there would be world peace and litteraly nothing would ever ever be the same! I'm on a trip. Now and I can't explain it but trust me you all will bow down to the shrooms!
My mother was born in 45 and dad in 29 non of them wher hippies or did drugs they worked Hard and lived normal family lifes only me i like the era of hippies although i do not agree with every Thing such as drugs ...
I agree love is better than war anytime but the rest is bull shit its just a bunch of lazy bastads who don't want to work # I never wanted to work but I had to do I wanted to play guitar good but I'm crap I try like hell but I'm crap and so now I'm retired and free but with fuck all to do still want to be a guitarist before its too late but I'm only dreaming and that was the hippy thing only dreaming and then nothing sadly
The hippy movement was our last chance at avoiding the current reality. Global warming, microplastics even in the rain, corruption etc. We had a chance for love and enlightenment.
To be honest the hippie dream died quick 1967 it was popularized and by 1969 Charles Manson was on the loose riots everywhere and the first punks MC5 and the stooges had released their bum.
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Counterculture of the 1960s -- I grew up in the 1960's and was a staunch Hippie for 6 long years ! I had the good fortune of growing out of it in what was actually a short time ! I know of so many that are still Hippies ! Of course by the time one reaches adulthood one is entirely responsible for ones own life ! It is very important that one has ones feet firmly on the ground and be responsible, earn ones living and support the United States of America ! I though blame so much of the toxicity of the Hippie culture on adults and the parents all across America ! Take a real close look at the parents of today's world all across America and you will find out that today's parents are as irresponsible and liberal as can be ! Over the past 5 generations the adult population all throughout America has grown more and more immature, less and less educated regardless of how the public school system chooses to believe and more and more involved in materialism ! The majority of the adult population all across America is actually destroying what was once the fine and wonderful country represented by the Red, White and Blue flag ! It is actually the irresponsible adult population all across America that had created the Hippie counterculture movement ! Today's Hippies represent a vast array of evil characteristics but fortunately the Baby Boom generation, the Hippies and those of what later became the New Age Movement were able to put aside much of the worldliness and materialism so prevailant in America today and partake of a much higher degree of Transendental Spiritual Knowledge and Understanding ! Many of those in the New Age Movement have a much more finer perception and true advanced Mystical Knowledge of Christianity unknown of by so many Christians all throughout the world ! Many New Ager's became involved in the advanced teachings of Buddhism as well as the advanced teachings of Hinduism ! A good many of the New Ager's even found a much higher degree of spirituality in the Sufi religion as well as the Sikh religion ! A few of the New Ager's even found the supreme spirituality of both Radhasoami and ECKANKAR ! Best Wishes -- Joseph Stefurak
This generation gave the world hippies,LSD and free sex. Soon after they decided to dip and became hard right conservatives and my generation kept their garbage ideas alive.
And half of you or more druggies I don't like you for so many reasons why did you and your friends try to take over my favorite place scaring kids????? Why were each of you lazy? Im a Guy that was in special ed and I m not lazy
I was in high school from 65-69 so came along at the time of partying, dancing, great music. Had a baby in 1970 so I had responsiblities early, but still found time to do alot of what is mentioned...but we do get older and things do change. I feel that there are some good docs on you tube on this time period. I am grateful to have been a part of it all.
billie geller jealous beyond words
@@jenswrld999 same
Too early for a baby
The counter culture was really fucked towards our vets. Unfortunately, I now live in a cancel culture.
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What happened fellow boomers? I am an aging Hippie and still an activist. I got out of my sick state of Apathy after they killed Lennon. You can have your material goods but they won't mean nothing if the world continues the way it is going. We must turn things around now. Never let the dream die or give into Fear. We have the power to still change the world
thomdathom Yes sadly many in my generation sold out, got their priorities out of order an i am ashamed of them. I still believe that Peace is better than War an i know there are still hundreds of thousands my age that still care an trying to wake up the fragile planet. I have put up a challenge many times to my fellow boomers that have become yuppies but none have yet to explain their actions. I have been ridiculed and attacked for not caring about being politically correct or the status quo an daring to believe that we can still make a difference. It is up to all ages to stand against intolerance an injustices.
The American Dream is fine but not when it requires running over people and being a greedy yuppie in the process. It won''t mean anything if we don't have a planet to live on. For me , that dream is dead and i am okay with that. Can't take anything with you at the end and what we do for others and the planet will count more in eternity. I don't have to keep up with the Status Quo or the Jones's
@Randy R I'd love to talk to you since you were a hippie in the 1960's! It's for research I am doing! Please private message me or email raina@LutzNutrition.ca
You can email me at randypw6967@ gmail.com Being a military brat, I got to live out most of my 60's liberation in the 80's. Still an aging Hippie inside. It isn't about sex, drugs and rock an roll. It is about being aware and wanting to help make this world a better place. Love an Peace is much bigger than a decade or generation. I am ashamed of many in my generation. My email is already on profile. Just realize that as a recovering alcoholic addict this is the most dangerous month of the year and I am desperately trying to sell 600 items. Time is not on my side
Raina Lutz Check under this video on Google Plus or email me at randypw6967@gmail.com Please realize that this is the most dangerous and difficult month for me and I am desperately trying to sell 600 items. Just got put on disability and it has put me in a very rough spot.
They were the best years of my life!
I did a speech over this today for my public speaking class. Wish I would've found this video last night, but my professor said I had the most interesting and well designed speech so I'll take it.
I am by no means a hippy but this year I purchased a 1967 VW Splitscreen 13 Window Deluxe. I love vintage VWs and I love that era and the music it gave us. I use the bus to escape for a few hours, driving while listening to the Doors or Dylan...then back home to reality.
What a beautiful time that was. I hope it returns soon.
Far out! This rules. I was born in 1945 and went to Woodstock, so I can say I definitely lived through the sixties. This video IS the sixties. Reminds me of my old days smoking "the weed" with my hippy friend Pat.
LMAO
When I reach the afterlife, I'm going back to the late 60's!
For me 1960 beatnik era
Hey Save me a seat!!!✌️
@@blossom1643 I will, I'll pick you up in my 1968 GTO
@@bobsilver3983 OK Then Bob!! Let me just get out of my 1970 Challenger! You can’t miss it- orange with a wide white racin stripe!! Lord we’re Those the Days or What !!✌️
Bob Silver: Save me a seat in the time machine. I'll join you.
My generation! My name is Alex, and I was born at the very
begining of the 60,s I was 2 years old when JFK was shot
and 9 at the time of woodstock. The 60,s tothe 80,s had the best bands and best music!!
They acted without fear, yet they were the peaceful souls. ✌
Many of the hippies fought in Nam. Many had brothers in Nam. And some Hippies was old enough to have fought in WW2 while others was soldiers, including Timothy Leary who was at Westpoint.
I was a hippie in the 60's. Man, what a great time!
I'd love to talk to you @softail springer ! I'm hoping to talk to hippies for research I am doing! Please private message me or email raina@LutzNutrition.ca
Damn I'm jealous
Very good project! Im so proud of you. You interviewed real folks! Wow... Just dont drop out. Thats no way to be. But tune in to your own inner truth whatever it may be. Turn on to yourself and find yourself then you can feel others. It works that way. This is such a great little doc you made. Thank you for sharing your work with the world. I hope you did well with this in school. PEACE
Let's do it again.
On the surface it appears more desirable than endless war!
Good video, peace love and Gods blessings! Old Hippie tryin' to adjust!
compared to now, it was heaven.
Today is June 14,2017 the anniversary of the summer of love. I walked around naked and wore a flower in my hair in celebration.
"Idiot repulicantard"
Great documentary man. You will get A in your history man
The best ........times ever such great music
Groovy man...
My high school years were early-mid 90’s. An awesome era, but still would pick 60’s over that.
My friends and I used to hitch hike from San Diego to Laguna Beach to hang with Tim Leary.
😊✌️🌈 I love being a self made hippie, I am a 60 year old and I enjoy being able to be what ever I want to be. I take pot and and wish I could find others who are the same. Love from Marysville, California
I feel like we might be on the brink of another rev
Dirty Dan We are. I feel it. I’ll be among it.
I feel that too. I think the climate protests happening now are a huge part of it.
Psychedelic renaissance this time friend
you manifested it man. its here, its now
Yes.
I’m 35 and I do have a good job, but at the same time I still don’t see why I have to act like a boring stiff. This whole narrative that you have to settle down and have kids has never made sense to me. I mean if that’s what you want to do, then by all means, but I just don’t see why it’s necessary. I don’t see why you can’t just enjoy life, travel and have fun. Especially if you have a good job, I feel like in that case you earned the right to do whatever you want.
THIS!!!
Part of the counter culture was to end poverty and help the downtrodden. It was to share.
It’s quite sad how the counter culture participants appear to have fallen back into the same life as their parents. These boomers had children, and like their parents instilled the values they rebelled against at one time right into their children, whether consciously or unconsciously. I would have thought things would have changed after the cultural shift of the late 60s. Yet to this day we are continuing the drug war, proxy wars, racism, misogyny, queerphobia, child abuse, consumerism, wealth inequality, and so on and so forth. Inter-generational trauma is real. They all sang about power in the hands of the people. It’s been over 50 years, what happened? Going to blame having children and responsibilities? I’m sorry then that you had children, whether you chose to or whether it was an accident.
Very well put together! Sweet music too!
Turn on, tune in, drop out sounds all cool and all, but try doing that when you have to eat, find a place to live, and maybe even have offspring. Don't do it, stay sober, stay alert, stay healthy, stay kind, stay compassionate for others, and don't intentionally inflict pain on another. That's what it's really all about kids.
David Lichner that's what LSD teaches you
man they sold out, im 23 and im fucking tired of this backward ass world. everyone thinks with their ego instead of their heart,constant greed, individualism,addictions,over 150 governments on 1 planet? it doesnt make sense i feel like im gooooiing crazy. i dont even care about wealth anymore i just 1 person in this world to tell me that they love me, i feel misunderstood
Oscar Alvarado it's the same human tragedy repeated a thousand times over. you're not alone look up The Story of Life (efilism) by Anomicindividual87
@@oa8945 please check "How media shaped generations" documetaries here on youtube. Take care.
The two things aren't mutually exclusive.
We were all lost trying to find the meaning of life.Finally at 35 I ACCEPTED JESUS AS MY SAVIOR AND FOUND THE REASON FOR BEING PUT HERE.I Later became a missionary to 🇭🇹 Haiti
EVANGELIST ROGER MANSOUR
Thank you for your testimony
Sigh. Take me back to where it all began. This less than 10 minute video clearly and somewhat lovingly hits most of the high points of how some of the Silent generation and the early Boomers began a revolutionary idealistic movement that was a real treat for the Jones generation like me and the early Gen X to grow up in. "I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I leave it up to you".
The ideals of the movement continue to this day, have forever changed the world, are are still shaping our future.
The environment, pollution, civil rights, equal rights, human rights, over-consumption, etc etc etc.
Pretty darn good for a history class assignment. What level and what grade did you get?
PS Your dad (and the prof) was great, you must've had a great home to grow up in.
✌️n♥️
Summer of Love in 1967 is when hippies became popularized. But i'm just curious, were there any hippies before that?
+James Batchelor There weren't even many then, just a small group that grew quickly in the late 60s and early 70s.
I asked my dad that once. He experienced the 60s. He said they were very, very small in number. Nothing like the media portrays. He said most went on to the 70s and tried to live in hippie communes but the numbers dwindled and people went back to middle income America, just like the principles they sought to overcome. You see, teenagers and people in their early 20s are really naive and ignorant about the world.
It's not that they are naive and ignorant, that's your projections. They failed at their movement yes, totally. But what they did resonates throughout history and the world today. It will happen again and this time it will push through. That's what they were ignorant about, inflicting change in the society, they had no leaders who were able to spread their message.
+birdsfallsilent
If what we did resonates throughout history how did we fucking fail?
popularized?We didn't become popularized we became a movement,we became a power for social change what the hell are you doing today that's worth a damn?You never know i might want to join.
This was a very nicely done summary of the hippie movement.
really good video i enjoyed watching it. good camera work and editing. please don't take this the wrong way, but i feel the audio levels between the interviews, clips and voice overs could do with balancing a little. other than that great job, have clicked subscribe and look forward to more!
Very well done, especially for a school project.
I was born after the sixties,1972,and am so envious of anyone that lived through the sixties.Bright colours, wonderful music, optimism for the future,Space race,free shops, diggers kitchen,end to racism,free love.Utopia.WTF happened.
It looks great when you study it from a historical context, but my parents went through it and they were rough times. Losing a president, MLK, getting involved with Vietnam which was terrible. The racial riots across cities in America. The main difference was people came out to protest in very large numbers because the government was drafting people into the war. Nowadays they have enough people who want to serve that the government doesn't need to draft. Otherwise people would have been apathetic overall like they are now. But maybe now things will change once people realize how bad things will be with the AI and digital dictatorship.
@@drewgrad8871 Build the labor movement.
@@yourmother2739 I want to for sure. I would like to start an environmental community that functions a bit like a commune. We have too many places in the US that became ghost towns. It is time we bring them back to life.
Screw the 60s for starting political correctness and the dark ages of future entertainment.
I love the music, hair, clothes, and cars but I was not a hippy.
Good video! Yeah it was a unique space and time there was just a special energy in the air. Seems like we've drifted back towards conformism and materialism All the amazing social changes that happened during the '60s have shifted
And we appear to be moving backwards
My generation a phenomenal time of change.
Thank you. Born in 94 me ... I really admire this gen ... I wish we had more
Hi, I'm Alex and I'm also making a documentary for my history class. My documentary is about Woodstock and the counter culture. Would it be okay if I used some of your interviews? At this point in time, I'm not definitely sure that I would use them, but in the case that I did, I would need your permission. Thanks.
No you cant use you smelly hippy
This is depressing the decay of american values and tradition ☹️
Really feels like we need to recreate the summer of love. So much hate in the world today. People also so materialistic. Money is god to so many
There wouldn't be this much hate if the hippies had got their shit together and didn't destroy our culture
I think people's heads are more up in the air nowadays than they used to be with all the "knowledge" and all the pseudo-social platforms like i-phones and internet. People didn't have devices that kept them from each other. People would be closer together, not separated by technology. This all happened before all the wi-fi stuff, where people were more together than they are now, they were much closer to each other, things were localized, not world-wide. People are connected to each other online, but it's not the same as reality, actually seeing each other face to face and connecting on a real concrete level.
lmao, man posted a school project on youtube and got 169000 views.
Very good!
Not bad for a brief retrospective.
One thing that I might add: the Korean War happened 1950-3. Americans dreaded it after fighting WWII, and I think it stoked the antiwar feelings developing for the 1960s. Wars that end in a tie are not popular.
The death of JFK had nothing to do with the hippies. This is pure revisionism.
The counterculture of the 60s was focused on a more peaceful world, a search for a better meaning of life, equal rights for all, and above all the freedom to pursue their vision of life (pursuit of happiness). They questioned the materialistic society they rightly perceived all around them and saw the government as the enemy of their freedom. Women were seen as partners in this new exploratory world, capable of taking their place along side of men due to their own unique strengths and abilities.
Today's feminists with their war on men as about as far as one can get from the hippie chicks of the 60s. Tolerance, as the word is in use today where the government grants and enforces special rights for some people who are more equal or more deserving than others, would have been anathema to the hippies. The only thing they wanted was the government to leave them alone.
What a long strange trip it's been.
They were the start of heavy drug use, feminized males, increased violence, a public school system that is a joke, disrespect of the United States which gave their sissy spoiled asses a great country that they brought morality to the maggot infested liberal attitude of a minority group of loud mouthed loons we have today. Good job hippies and thanks a bunch!
Chris - I was just about to post the same thing you said until I saw your post. The movement started a good year or so before JFK's assassination. That event may have helped to spur on the use of drugs and "outrageous" behaviour, etc. Drugs weren't even involved in the origins of the "movement" - I sort of think that drugs were introduced to derail the movement. Peace.
@@andyleibrook6012 calm down bitch
@@ivana_playsjumpropeinyouryard YEA, just like that. Now go back to being that small dull child that you were destined to be.
@@andyleibrook6012 ) do the same.
if everyone would turn off their laptop or computer and iphone together, then we could reachieve the impossible things of today. Getting together, family, and so on.
Get real old man!
The hippie movement has never died, I’m 70 and lived that era and still do because the principles are still relevant today. WE HIPPIES CHANGED THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER!
If you do not mind my asking did you have children during the hippie movement? I enjoy watching documentaries about the summer of life. Trying to find documentaries regarding children of hippies but can't find much of anything.
@@linda9081 Hi Linda :) My Mom was a real hippie BUT she also kept a job as a teacher, held a mortgage, and provided a summer home out in the middle of nowhere where we lived a hippie life all summer long. Being a teacher she had summers off. A house to call home and a Mom who catered to the souls of us kids and all the people she came in contact with. She was a flower child Jesus hippie, she smoked but didn't do drugs. We had the best of both worlds. We had a goat as a house pet. Also two baby alligators, a turtle, and a wild raccoon who stayed friendly only for a short time. Hahaha ... could have been because of the alligators.
My Mom is now in her 90s and that hippie attitude, still going strong. I didn't see her as a hippie when growing up and I actually had a real problem with her "never fight back" dedication to peace and reconciliation amongst adversaries. I've since come to realize "Hippie" means a lot more than communes and smoking pot. Hippie is a permanent state of mind and a beautiful condition of the heart. Thankfully my Mom had and still has both. I joined the party late but every moment of my life is lived in a state of soul expression that I learned firsthand from my super cool hippie mom. Thank you, Mom. :) P*E*A*C*E
@@ZeroGravity60 thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I love your comment. 🥰
Thanks for ruining our culture you fucking degen
@@linda9081Anna Runkle, AKA crappychildhoodfairy on UA-cam is a child of hippies and had her childhood on a commune. She speaks about this a bit on her channel. Needless to say it was a traumatizing experience for her as a child.
Proud to be born in August of 69.
Ittttssss coooooominggggg baaaack
Make love not war
Some say the Hippies failed. Guess what, so has everyone else. The present system has failed and is falling apart. People was offered an alternative. It did not fail, humanity simply chose not to do it.
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My school sent us this, but we couldn't even watch it. It was restricted for us -_-
Bummer!
Stick it to the Man!
Im glad I was born at the end of that era.
+larkatmic Thank God someone agrees with me. 99% of boomers were total HYPOCRITES.
Spoiledl? lol you're talking about a tiny percentage of youth in the USA. What about the rest of the world? Do you think that this movement only happened in the States? I'm from the UK and we were far from spoiled. Either educate yourself or keep your thoughts to yourself. If you want a "spoiled" generation, look at the 80s or even right now - a bunch of consumers, plugged into the economic system (that is failing, btw), waiting for the next version of iPhone to come on the market. The Sixties generation actually got rid of much of their possessions and found ways of bypassing the economic system which is essentially a form of slavery (you don't believe that? then think about who controls the value of the paper that's in your wallet or purse - you? lol)
God bless 🙏 the hippies.
Christopher Williams is now known as "Jerome Michael Rogan"
I'm creating a new Commune called "The Garden" In West Sussex, England
Great upload.
Jesus Christ loves you and died for you 💔😢❤️🙏.
sweet video:)
Haight wasn't paradise but there were good bands all over the place man
You have the hippies and the radicals mixed up. The hippies were not into protesting. Hippies just wanted to break from any politics. SDS and Yippies were the main groups in the streets against the war. Not the hippies
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Let me live in a hippie bus, I, Ll be fine! Who needs the 60s let's just do it! I just want out..
Awesome! May i use some of this footage?
Sure. Most of it isn't really mine though, I just found it on the internet.
Ron Paul looks a lot like Timothy Leary. He's still going strong, was a medical doctor in the 1960s.
Some stories of the 60's.
We know this; that no one gets out of here alive. A slow wake up process was required to pull the psychedelic wool over the eyes, man. There really was no disconnect. Separation: the delusion, being what it is was all wasted words in any attempt to ……..
3:30 Cartoon acid, those were the days!
Time for the 2015 revolution
I,m trying to make a change and have created an internet social media in which the users become shareholders.
Lets make it happen
Cheers
Mark
Please elaborate
those days, between the conformists and the hippies, at least both sides had much better values than we have today, really diminished values.
Do the Beat generation and their literature movement.
Awesome work. I love this.
Peace&Love!
-R
search "how media shaped the generations" here on youtube, is a great documentary.
Did the hippies turn into yuppies in the 80's?
Some did, some didn't, but all had to face the realities of life as it actually is rather than what we might imagine or hope it to be.
Good explanation
We just want to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!
And we want to get loaded✌️
If I was alive in the 60s no doudt I would have protested that damn war as well
What song was that at 1:57?
The six is also saw the birth of the Jesus people movement which I think was a very positive movement. God bless the Jesus freaks. Peter
Watching this in June 2023. There have been over 300 mass murders in America this year. Indicating that not every generation is for peace and love. This new world of hate, killing, maiming is not what hippies nor God endorses. It is a disgusting world in 2023. Where did the love go ?????
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Wasn't the counterculture movement Marxist inspired?
If shrooms were legal, there would be world peace and litteraly nothing would ever ever be the same! I'm on a trip. Now and I can't explain it but trust me you all will bow down to the shrooms!
A+
Squad GOALS
God is love 🙏❤️🙏.
We need another Summer 😁 👍😎 of Love 😍🙏💙🙏.
I thought Woodstock was in Illinois.
My mother was born in 45 and dad in 29 non of them wher hippies or did drugs they worked Hard and lived normal family lifes only me i like the era of hippies although i do not agree with every Thing such as drugs ...
I agree love is better than war anytime but the rest is bull shit its just a bunch of lazy bastads who don't want to work # I never wanted to work but I had to do I wanted to play guitar good but I'm crap I try like hell but I'm crap and so now I'm retired and free but with fuck all to do still want to be a guitarist before its too late but I'm only dreaming and that was the hippy thing only dreaming and then nothing sadly
this whole thing was started by the Beatles.
The hippy movement was our last chance at avoiding the current reality. Global warming, microplastics even in the rain, corruption etc. We had a chance for love and enlightenment.
Shut up, global warming ain't even real
There's plastic in the clouds now????
You've never been to any exoplanets before.
Earth isn't special, you keep dreaming.
To be honest the hippie dream died quick 1967 it was popularized and by 1969 Charles Manson was on the loose riots everywhere and the first punks MC5 and the stooges had released their bum.
Part of this is not True the Hippy movement didn't die out yes the first Hippies grew up but There's Still Hippies Around today You need to 'em Man
Charles Rubitschung The overall movement died though...
Are you sure?
The Manson family killed the hippie movement.
I played hard-rock and rock music in a band when I was young and still do but I Never liked the Hippy and Beatnik lifestyle.
It's time to be hippies again
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out: Counterculture of the 1960s -- I grew up in the 1960's and was a staunch Hippie for 6 long years ! I had the good fortune of growing out of it in what was actually a short time ! I know of so many that are still Hippies ! Of course by the time one reaches adulthood one is entirely responsible for ones own life ! It is very important that one has ones feet firmly on the ground and be responsible, earn ones living and support the United States of America ! I though blame so much of the toxicity of the Hippie culture on adults and the parents all across America ! Take a real close look at the parents of today's world all across America and you will find out that today's parents are as irresponsible and liberal as can be ! Over the past 5 generations the adult population all throughout America has grown more and more immature, less and less educated regardless of how the public school system chooses to believe and more and more involved in materialism ! The majority of the adult population all across America is actually destroying what was once the fine and wonderful country represented by the Red, White and Blue flag ! It is actually the irresponsible adult population all across America that had created the Hippie counterculture movement ! Today's Hippies represent a vast array of evil characteristics but fortunately the Baby Boom generation, the Hippies and those of what later became the New Age Movement were able to put aside much of the worldliness and materialism so prevailant in America today and partake of a much higher degree of Transendental Spiritual Knowledge and Understanding ! Many of those in the New Age Movement have a much more finer perception and true advanced Mystical Knowledge of Christianity unknown of by so many Christians all throughout the world ! Many New Ager's became involved in the advanced teachings of Buddhism as well as the advanced teachings of Hinduism ! A good many of the New Ager's even found a much higher degree of spirituality in the Sufi religion as well as the Sikh religion ! A few of the New Ager's even found the supreme spirituality of both Radhasoami and ECKANKAR ! Best Wishes -- Joseph Stefurak
search "how media shaped the generations" here on youtube, is a great documentary.
Birth of degeneracy
Dawg gone skippy, heaven it was NY METS won the WS!..
This generation gave the world hippies,LSD and free sex. Soon after they decided to dip and became hard right conservatives and my generation kept their garbage ideas alive.
And half of you or more druggies I don't like you for so many reasons why did you and your friends try to take over my favorite place scaring kids????? Why were each of you lazy? Im a Guy that was in special ed and I m not lazy
I get you bro. Fuck hippies, fucking degens.
No phones, no tattoos,seem like no overweight people like today...
The death of JFK had very little cause to this
I think rfk had more influence on hippie culture in general, but I can see how jfk's death had some far reaching effects