1967-1993 SPECIAL REPORT: "WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HIPPIES OF HAIGHT-ASHBURY"?
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- Опубліковано 25 вер 2024
- The de facto capital of the hippies, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury, was in ruins by the end of 1967. The influx of people into the district during the 'Summer of Love' was so high (pardon the pun) that overpopulation and unsanitary habits resulted in the spread of disease as well.
My mom was a hippie in HA… a few years later she moved back to the midwest, attended college and became a beloved 1st grade teacher. She married my dad (he was 10 years iolder than her and not a hippie). She was a wonderful teacher & mother.
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Was?
@@Nzbdjcnx franks
Believe it or not these folks are not Biden voters
I spent a few months on The Farm in 1976. It was an authoritarian, verbally abusive, poorly fed scene. They worked hard, but they did not eat nutritious food. They were vegans, but they supplemented their diet with white flour, sugar, and junk food right out of the packages, and Pepsi.
You won't get enough nutrition eating like that. When I left, I was diagnosed with anemia, and I really don't think I was the only one. I was shocked at how pink, how neon pink, the cheeks of the white girls outside the Farm were. Later, I realized that was how white people were supposed to work. On the Farm, they were much whiter. Casper white. Typing paper white. That was probably due to anemia.
Thanks for the first-person account! Much appreciated.
You buy 50kg. of rice and grow some unions, garlic, herbs, vegetables, fruits, and buy little bottles of ketjap and other taste makers. You can catch some fish, or buy a little meat, cheese, nuts, or a different meat replacement. It's so easy to cook healthy food, but I think a lot of Americans probably can't or don't do home cooking? In the '70s here in Holland there was a lot of macro dynamic foods, and people were very skinny and didn't have too much colour either. Later on they probably went back to the old fashioned potatoes, vegetables, gravy, and meat (and a little porridge or yoghurt as desert) Simple food, and it makes you feel very strong and healthy! We have these one-pan-dishes too (stamppot ) like potatoes with vegetables and cheese (or with meat) all stamped to a big mush, with some jus or sauce. Mmmm... nice healthy food for dark and cold winters! :)
They probably were short on vitamin B12
@@yukonnoka what they were short on was sense
My mom did her college dissertation on the Farm back in the mid 70's. She took me with her when she went for her research trips and I fell in love with the communal living mentality. I am sure the malnourishment and control were a real thing but I did not see this as a child. All I saw was individualists caring for other individualists. It gave me the knowledge that all paths are equal and there is a way to live without working ourselves to death for the corporate greed!!!
They thought being in your 40s was too old for rock. Now their in their 80s and still rockin'!
Yeah but back then , people in their 30s and 40s didn’t grow up on rock and roll, it was jazz, big band, country…
That’s what separates this generation… they enjoy life with their kids and are usually close ( my generation, baby boomers). Couldn’t smoke pot with MY parents. With my kids and grandkids, yes.
@@barbarajohnson9050 I smoked with my parents. But I really should not have. It was kind of creepy. The smell of MJ gives me a creepy feeling still, and I. think that is why.
they were all socialists back then.... then discovered being entrepreneurial, industrious and ambitious was much better,
@@nickyalousakis3851 In other words, they found that the Establishment was right and they were wrong. 🤔
I was a freak, a country boy infected by the Hippies that swarmed north to rural Canada. God love them all, they gave me a way to think, just when I needed it. I guess I helped them, too, with country boy things that just seemed obvious to me.
Country Joe ;)
Gheez, that intro. Was it really necessary to put the same line on repeat a hundred times? I need to go bang my head against the wall to relieve the pain!
Yea, but you never knew what people would do for that Mexican smoke. (in those days, the majority of marijuana was from Mexico,)
😄😄😄 me too!!....
lol 😂that’s what I was thinking
Hard to believe years later here in 2021 the Stones are still together alive and well
To bad San Francisco isn’t!
Not since Charlie died last week
Yep - still touring . . . and Keith Richards has been Dead for over 15 years.
@@michael_caz_nyc 😂
@@dondressel452 ha,ha,ha, Just look at him. A walking Zombie. I can't believe that guy is still touring. It defies logic. I like the Stones. They really-are true Rock Stars. oNe LovE from NYC
The God for the hippies. I was born in the mid 70s but the message of peace , love and acceptance of each other's differences because in reality we are more alike than different was the truth then and it's still the truth now. Come together birds . Whatever your feather
Couldn’t watch it with that obnoxious watermark smack dab in the middle of the screen.
Lol okay
The Haight-Ashbury district in San Francisco is a tourist attraction now. There are young people today who are poor and homeless or nearly so who come to S.F. seeking the life they heard about decades ago. Many work low-paying jobs in retail establishments. Some of them are still experimenting with communal living, dumpster diving for food, creating communal gardens, and scavenging for discards of clothing or other usable items on the street, such as furniture or cookware. Lots of them are still hoping for a mythical Marxian utopian vision of yesteryear.
Sounds desparate and sad in that case. Hippydom is ancient history if it ever truly existed at all, in any pure sense, back in the 60s.
@@brendanbrendan9435 I don't know how "sad" or "desperate" they are, I know a lot of them. They worship the past. They're into free jazz from the '50s & '60s, and the '80s punk scene. too. I found out from one of them that there's a thriving train-hopping scene. I can't image people riding trains as vagrants, but some young folks do it like so-called hobos did back in the day.
There’s only one reason I still go to that area and that’s amoeba records at the corner Haight and Stanyan… Ive been going there since the 90s
@@jamesmack3314 It's just one part of San Francisco.
The marxist utopian vision is still alived. As opposed to what, your horrible non utopian vision?
Its amazing how things seem like they'll last forever, but inevitably, everything changes, in ways unimaginable, and the older your get the more staggering it is how this seems to be true for everything
You are not wrong. All Things Must Pass.
“The only constant is change.”
Everything changes except for the 2 mist wide spread religions.
Couldn’t last 3 minutes. How dare you edit/ loop classic Airplane tunes and stick that watermark up. Will never watch anything you produce again.
Awww The Airplane. Looking forward to this one Hezakya had to put it on pause for a day when I could enjoy with no interruptions. Thanks for these fantastic Trips down memory lane.
I wonder how many became CEOs of companies and sold their souls and everything they thought they believed in?
Steve Jobs? Paul McCartney and bunch of other previously hippie super rich figures? No, CEOs of companies didn't sell their souls. Being successful is not evil.
Most. I was there.
In october 1967 a symbolic burial was carried on.Hippism had been declared dead, what followed was nothing but merchandising.
What came after was a CIA operation to create smaller segmented society to be more easily controlled and it didn't stop in the 80s or 90s or at all since then.
Hip hop is another great example of a cultural event that was co-opted and manipulated for a wanted outcome.
I can’t stand watermarks
Many burned out. " A man's got to know his limitations ! "
Magnum force..
Spent time in Haight Ashbury in the early 1990s. Some of the old hippy spirit was still there but was fading fast. Old Victorian houses that were energy inefficient once made for cheap rent which attracts artists & the Bohemian types. Those days are gone.
Do Americans really call houses built between 1837 and 1901 Old Victorian houses? Do they know anything about Queen Victoria? In the UK we call them either Houses or Victorian Houses!
@@paulfrost8952 Not really. But since this is UA-cam & since ppl now copy architectural styles in new construction I used the word “old” to start a sentence that described Victorian houses. Unfortunately, as a culture, we don’t have the years nor the wisdom of our cousins across the pond.
Paid 200$ a month at 439 cole st in the Haight in 68- zillow says today’s rent would be 3400 -go figure
@@carygray9831 Wow!!!! That’s amazing. I don’t know how the latest mess to San Francisco has affected Haight Ashbury. The city itself seems to have descended into chaos.
Don't forget all the speed & heroin the CIA pumped into the area. That was the real death blow.
Today , it's The Fenty
and lsd
Jolly West enters chat.
The scene changed from smoking a joint to shooting heroin. It kiilled many.
We all got haircuts, real jobs, married , and kids.
And now those kids are mostly lame. How can so many parents who were supposedly “cool”back in the Day produce such a boatload of uncool kids
@@jamesmack3314many of the anti 2nd neoliberal oppressive supposed hippie types produced woke children. Children that are the supposed selfproclaimed antiracists yet are in favor of the implemention such socioeconomic theories as crtheory. The same crtheory that demonizes a whole sect of society by falsely claiming they're/we're inherently privileged and oppressors based on their/our skin color, which is literally bigoted hateful and racist. But there was a group of pro 2nd amendment right hippies that produces some truly great children and their working to Make America Great Again!
My brothers and I were straight laced, short hair, responsible young men who never took/smoked illicit drugs. We never bought into the Hippie scene. So, there were a lot of young people who were not part counter culture.
I would think there were more young people that wernt hippies than those that were. I was born in 84 but my father and his siblings were all baby boomers and they were straight laced as well
Haha “ Ringo Starr is 49 and Paul McCartney is 47 “now they’re both in their 80s
We were right about the CIA and the FBI. Preach sister.
Ironic as she was probably one of their test subjects who they studied if she took lsd and led an ‘alternative lifestyle’. For all she went through, she hasn’t really gained much insight and has a child who has to grow up with a single parent. Poor kid.😢
The CIA Created the Hippies. ;0) Tavistock institute Man.
You should read Tom O'Neils book Chaos. It's a good dose of truth about the psyops they ran from here.
@@tooberetta I do know a little of that book. I have a mild case of Manson obsession so I’ve seen discussions on if Manson was working with the CIA which reportedly that book claims. People a little closer to truth like Nick Shreck say the book got that wrong, but I really should read it anyway.
@@tooberettahis book is nonsense. Now you know
They grew up (sort of), and moved to north to a Posh
Marin County where, ironically, their NIMBY mindset
cancels out their former selves.
The "Wazee Digital" logo in the middle of the frame is really distracting.
Haight wasn't in ruins by 1967, It was the summer of 1968 and the Haight riots. 67 was a great year and then came the night.
Yeah the dark scum, serpent energy took over, they love iodine.
It was a mess if you were in the Haight in 1965 and 1966. The original "hippies" scattered and the kids who were called in by the media invented a new kind of hippie by studyihg each other
I was only a child when I lived there during that era with my mom. But your chronology sounds about right. I asked my mom "How long did it stay good?" She said "Not very long."
@@adamseward4713 huh? I thought and was convinced 65 and 66 were the greatest years, the most authentic and honest years of counterculture behavior, which morphed into the hippie movement in 67 and beyond sounds like 65 and 66 were the best times to be there before it got to be commercialized
that's right@@jamesmack3314
Most of them fell into the same traps they once despised. It's sad, really.
Blessings everyone I hope all is well with you my brother! I'm tripping on how someone told you that you're channel is race baiting when your channel is full of diversity of all kinds & in my opinion everything opposite of racism/race baiting. Keep up the hard but good work on your channel my dude. Me myself I appreciate all the focus, energy, & dedication that you & so many others put into there UA-cam Channels.
My you live as long as you want and never want as long as you live bro! Stay blessed.....
👍🌈🎃🎗 coool.
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They got haircuts and started acting like they had some damn sense.
Hippy in 67 says Freedom Same person in 2023 says How Dare You want your freedom because all hippies are woke
A Hippie told me something that changed my life. We seek in others that witch we can only give ourselves. Be your own best friend Man. ;0) You dont need anyone else you have yourself.
No ... we all need God .
@@Dawn-SongsAnd other people. 😅this hippe was just a person nobody wanted to be around
Okay, my friends and I were there in L.A. at the Hullabaloo, then Whisky and finally (after 10:00 pm) Canters (who would let us inside when the police came up the street; we weren’t yet 18) EVERY weekend. 1966-1970. Lived in Laurel Canyon in summer of 1970. Squeaks, Mush, Mark, Randy Tooth, Mike & Art; Marty & Donny; Wildman Fisher; and Mayor of Sunset Strip (Rodney Bingenheimer) & Elliot Mintz. We saw everyone and went everywhere. It was amazing. I’m still alive and live on East Coast now. 🤚
Wow, sounds like you were at the epicenter of the scene and all the stuff was going down on sunset Boulevard you’re surrounded by people like Joni Mitchell the beginnings of folk rock with Crosby stills Nash Frank Zappa was up there members of the doors love etc that was LA at its best not like today
Ever see Charlie and his girls?
Thank you! I really enjoyed the archival footage- I was 14 in 1968 and still consider myself a "partial" re-entry haha! It was an amazing era with a legacy that continues to resonate today. What a long strange trip it still is!
Yeah, subsequent generations are forever in your debt (I mean we’re living with YOUR DEBT)
Love the content! Where in the world did you find this old footage??
It’s frustrating that the actual AIR DATE of this program isn’t given. You have to guess by the cars and wardrobe.
@HezakytaNewz. You must be an exceptionally bright and philosophical AND sociological soul! The videos you find are historical as well as thought provoking.
Haight wasn't in ruins by 67, that was a Good year. The riots in the summer of 69? was the sword thru the heart. Maybe winter 1968. It was a good time but by Altamont, Manson, ...Haight was gone before that.....
Lovin these deep bass sound bites of Jefferson Airplane's hits!
Some of it before Grace
doyou have to put your logo in the middle of the screen for the entire thing? cant like that, now I hate Wazee digital, thats what I got from tjis
What happened to the hippies? They're CEOs, politicians, and college professors - they became ''the man''
You got a good point. This shit infiltrated all aspects of our world
Yeah, and they’re arguably worse than any that came before as they are so certain of their opinion that they dismiss completely anyone who’s not with their program.
The watermark was slightly distracting, but enjoyed the footage.
SLIGHTLY lol....
No hope? You were in the richest most powerful nation in history and you felt hopeless?
What is this mexican smoke I keep hearing Grace sing about? Gimme some!👍👍👍👍👍
Aww Wavy Gravy God Bless him.
He would of got my vote
Yessiree seen him in 94 in Cincinnati oh
Yes!! Waves Graves! Love that dude. I wish he was my papaw. Papaw Gravy.
Hugh romney ran Charles Manson's family off the hogfarm.
What was their plight? To get high, roll around in the mud, burn out or become a yuppie. These people dropped the ball when they had the chance.
gotta love the phrasing of the straight media - "not everyone who took LSD became a mental patient." Be sure to leave out the fact that there were people taking LSD who had mental problems to begin with, who today may have had opportunities for diagnosis and treatment that were lacking then.
Fascinating and important document, 100% relevant to today.
What were the 2 songs in this video?
I work with homebound seniors, many whom are former hippies who never recovered from the drug culture.
And to repeat myself again...great upload and greatly appreciated
What do mean "never recovered from the drug culture"? Fried their brains on LSD? Moved on to hard drugs? Please elaborate!
Mexico - Jefferson Airplane
10:52-10:57 that's how I feel about my generation today. We're young and we know there's an upset socially but, we're still very naive and lack alot of reasoning skills, comprehension skills, critical thinking and problem solving. But the biggest thing we lack to me is human empathy
The world was still civilized. Grew up in 80s/90s London. The last generation before people were programmed vis social media to be soulless, self absorbed, dumb down bots.
Yeah nobody has empathy, they say the most evil things on the internet without any kind of remorse, just go to an instagram comment section
Eat some iodine, you dark liar.
1000% accurate observation!!!!!
Some of you are alive and living deeply. I host Couchsurfers in Peru and I have met many who upwardly revise my view of the human race. I was in the Haight in 1965 and 66 and what we were there for is still rippling through the world
Mid late 80's we're great,I was a young teen and saw many of the Greats!!!
This opening song is making me feel like I'm going crazy.
Wait, is the whole soundtrack composed of small samples looped endlessly?
Yeah I was a bit annoyed by that too tbh....
Haight Ashbury and Haight St in general stayed great until gentrification in the late 90's.
Isn't white flight if they leave and gentrification if they move in? Those terms have been stained by racist who call themselves antiracists today. 😡
I was born in the SoCal hippie scene. Now im an adult hippie in SoCal mountains with all the other GenX LA refugees. Its fun here. We live in tiny cabins. We make music, art and raise chickens. We also have remote computer jobs😂❤😊
That sounds like so much fun❤
Omg
What happened to the people of Haight Ashbury there probably dead or great or great grandparents,
Were alive to declare the NEW Glory of God. Faithful 💪🏼 to the SF Bay, baby
They moved to Portland.😝
There in their 70s I was a little girl then
Wow the hippies were really concerned about the enviornment,sweeping the streets ….Now look what’s left of this planet……
Just because some ppl liked long hair on a man was so under rated,, freedom, let ur hair grow, for girls, let ur hair down,, freedom from barbers throughout this country , let ur hair grow long ,straight or curls, this society is not just for girls.. said me back in 1974 ,16 and married a long haired guy,,(20) we had more than most by our tax paying jobs.. hard work and happy years !! bought our 1st home, had it built, in 1979.
Searching for love because you cant love yourself, or because self-love isn't enough, is a dangerous game.
Exactly. The woman said she didn't feel love at home, but she felt love in haight Ashbury?
@@dannyhood7433 the CIA will love you as long as you let them study you😢
@@dannyhood7433Because there they didn't judge her, they just accepted her as she was. To a vulnerable young mind this was love.
What you should do is love yourself and be enough for yourself (not NEED another human being), but also look outwards, love other people for themselves and try to be a blessing to other people and make connection with others....
It's easier said than done of course but I'm trying....
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89 the age of Aquarius 2.0 was a great time. If you wasn't there for 69 ? 89 was great too. That was when I got to do all that ACID and shit but with all the music and culture from 69. The Long hair. The Tune in and drop out phase that has never left me.
@@truthseek3017 Oh dear we have a sourpuss. I dont Lie.
I was at Haight street in 94 and I had a great time but you could tell that area was going down hill and the hard drugs were really bad then
Is playing music in a repetitive loop a style?
I live in San Francisco, and was in the Haight last Sunday; not much different. Instead of hippies, mostly grungy runaway kids with pitbulls. Four totally naked people (3 men and a woman) walking around casually, tourists and locals. More commercialized than back then.
HEZAKYA COMES THRU AGAIN RESPECT
Transcendent. It sounds like a lot of them missed the point, but it sounds like a lot of them carried the point to its next stage in evolution.
An interesting observation was that the introduction and availability of coke twisted the vibe and things went downhill from there
Why is there call letters blocking the center of the screen? So annoying.
what's with the watermark right in the center of the screen.
I was there.... what happened is human nature, they became what they said they rejected.
My thoughts exactly…. if you’re gonna make it in this world, you have to conform to some degree
This is incredibly poignant to our present. Personally I flipped from that hippie mentality to a wiser and far more informed view.
I also, but the open minded spirit of free thinking was born in the days of civil rights protests, anti war demonstrations and the ERA effort. I would not be the progressive I am today without that foundation.✌️❤ Coming of age in the 60's and early 70's was liberating for me.
@@nstark1066 f’ing narcissist boomers destroyed the world. How progressive of you!!!
@@nstark1066Progressive is regressive. Stop destroying America.
I was born there. I'm 70 now.. the counterculture was taken over by the unhip. it's really sad.
Just watched Wookstock 99. sickening.....
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19:57 John Phillips joking about a form of child abuse...that aged well! What a freak!
would love this but there has to be a permanent logo on screen with it. lame!!
45 is considered ole' geezer, lol.
What about 63☦️🏺🫒
Well with age comes wisdom, and therefore a threat to their experiments in human nature and alternative lifestyles.
Forgotten how much I liked this channel 😊👍
Love your work mate, it’s top class, and I like Grace slick, but that Mexican smoke rambling song at the beginning, I wanted to throw my phone of off of a skyscrapers sky deck! ;)
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Ya that was pretty terrible.
Same lol
It wasn't a rambling song, it was the same line of the same song on a loop, and yes, it made me want to skip ahead.
I thought they were singing "put the Mexicans to work", that was weird
The economist, Jagger,heart valves replaced don't last long. Keith struggles. The rest are dead. The era changed. Change with it, again. Parle Chinese?
Most annoying soundtrack ever; refrains keep repeating, I assume for copyright reasons. 17:21 "Did we find any exhippies that became bankers in Boston? The answer is no...there won't be many now or in the future". They didn't forsee the Yuppie phenomenon 18:20 "Old geezers" at 40, little did they know most of them would still be performing in their 80s
Sex pistols had a great name for a great record: "Kill the hippys"
Watch ..
The summer of rave 1989..
Lisern carefully from.....
'However there was a irony to.....
A very square film made by square people .
what happened to the hippies? They’re in Eugene Oregon.
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Exciting era until the Greyhound sightseeing buses showed up, followed in 1968 by speed and heroin.
1993? This looks more like 1983....if that.
10:44 she hit right n the head…the war in Vietnam and at home; massive civil unrest and the boarder conflict between Russia and Chins in 1969.
She was looking for love, that's where the rubber hit the road.
The first Tiny Homes being built back in the 60's out of car doors and other items. A head of their times with the building of Tiny Homes.
These moments were really backed by great music (music being the first of it's kind ) A awakening, and drugs that did help shape people's awareness.
Today the streets are artificial, dead and lifeless,the music is two dimensional.
Today's world may be more sterile ,but it's phony and is backed by nothing.Its all just people miserable.We are seeing what lies do to a country,city, a world.
I have been sober, I have been on drugs,I have traveled .What's important is the people and the world around you.If you live in a world around you that is dead and lifeless than you got nothing.
The drugs today are from the pharmaceutical companies, the yuppies and there anti depressants and other garbage drugs .There is nothing wrong with experiencing life not trapped in your ego ( this world we need to melt away the bars that keep us imprisoned)
*solidair react*
I was an original in the Haight in 1966. For decades I thought the spirit was dead. I have hosted over 600 couchsurfers, people traveling poor around the world, and in them our spirit still lives
Reality is technology, the Internet, and especially smart phones have really done a number on social behavior in many different ways,mostly negative
anyone know the song at 3.45?
GOT IT. Jefferson Airplane - Tobacco Road, if anyone’s interested.
Classic rock is going strong now in 2023, and there are lots of younger newer bands. I believe it is going on as well as it can go on. Capitalism along with Reagan, struck back hard in the 80's. Once again people are seeing how sick and empty it is, and are fighting against it. Maybe the hippies just stopped going to the extremes that got them laughed at, there are more of them now and they are taken seriously now. But the struggle remains, trying to improve the world situation.
What are the names of the songs at the first of the documentary?
Hezakya, I'm a huge fan of your channel. If you haven't already, I highly recommend to you and your audience the Martyrmade Podcast. It just concluded a multi-part series on Jim Jones and the People's Temple, set in the broader context of the leftist movements of the 60's and 70's. It's excellent, and right up your alley.
We are still here.
what's the first song?
Lol. Was that square’s name really Richard Thrillkill???
No way.
A generation based on DOPE .
This generation gave us the dysfunctional children who , in time , gave birth to the cancer of WOKE.
When put like that, it’s even more disturbing. They in affect brought in a new form of cultural tyranny as they now redefine words like inclusive to meet their political goals. Even ones race is a political issue, also, for example Black is not a black person, but someone who thinks ‘black’ aka woke.
It’s a form of soft despotism that can only come about in a democratic system which Alexis De Toqueville forewarned about as he saw it from an outsiders perspective being a minor aristocrat from France born just after their revolution.
Let's not forget the political lie of climate change. Personally, I miss freash food.
indio: . If you are scared of today's left, you would have pooped your pants if you had encountered what they had in the 1960s and 1970s.
@@thomaspeters5889 And how are the two things related? They are not, and climate change is real.
Exactly. You reap what you sow.💩
Watermark is ultra-anoying. Can't you pay the extra $5 to have it removed?
I want to be free from the system
Oh by the way do you have a spare buck?
Well said!
And in 2024, the whole place is a disaster.
HA is a nice area
Hippiedom really could not last. Functionally there was very little production, work, nor output. There was very very little commerce nor exchange. We need both for some kind of growth. Without growth, things wither and fade. Functionally, any system must produce with effort. Effort is energy. Hippies put in little effort, and therefore very little energy was produced. For any kind of society or government there must be production, commerce, exchange. If not, things cease to exist
Ok Charlie
Wow that's pretty good analysis!!....sort of already understood it subconsciously, but you've put it into words!!👍👍👍👍
I loved the music, many people lost their minds, died or are dying, pretty creepy behavior also, anything goes
History doesn't repeat it rhymes and we're watching a much more revelation time right now but it looks much different. Progressivism and traditional liberalism now falls on the right.
They are all the homeless people in the Tenderloin district now.
Groovy! Gimme some skin. Far out! Cool!
Wtf?