Taos Acid-Head Hippie Loved The 1960s. What He Did.
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2023
- Being a hippie in Taos, New Mexico as this fellow during the 1960s was a unique experience that reflected broader countercultural trends while also being shaped by the region's distinct cultural and geographical features. Taos, known for its stunning landscapes, artistic heritage, and Native American traditions, attracted many from the hippie movement who were seeking an alternative lifestyle, closer to nature and away from mainstream society.
This interview clip presents outtakes from one of the 180 interviews that I conducted in 1989 for my 6 part TV series, Making Sense of the Sixties. We went through an amazing research process to find people like him. Whether you agree with him or not, whether you like what he did or not, he is a colorful storyteller filled with passion for how he lived at that time.
The communes were an amazing and strange phenomenon. Although I lived at that time and had colleagues experimenting in this way, I had my nose to the grindstone making my documentaries.
The Taos hippie movement in the 1960s was characterized by a quest for alternative ways of living, spiritual exploration, and a strong connection to the natural world. While this movement shared many characteristics with the broader hippie phenomenon in the United States, it also had unique elements shaped by the cultural and environmental context of New Mexico.
Communes were a significant aspect of the hippie experience. These were often set up as cooperative living situations where individuals shared resources and responsibilities. The architecture of these communes sometimes included geodesic domes or other alternative structures, reflecting a desire for sustainable and environmentally friendly living. Communal life emphasized principles of equality, shared labor, and collective decision-making, often challenging traditional family structures and societal norms.
The use of psychedelic drugs, such as LSD and marijuana, was common among hippies in Taos, as it was in other parts of the country. These substances were used recreationally and also as a means to seek spiritual enlightenment or deeper self-awareness. Drug use was both a form of social bonding and a statement against the conservative values of mainstream America.
Many hippies engaged in organic farming and gardening, aspiring to be self-sufficient and live off the land. This was part of a broader movement toward natural foods and sustainable agriculture.
There was also an emphasis on learning and practicing traditional crafts and skills, both as a means of self-sufficiency and as a way to reconnect with simpler, pre-industrial ways of life.
The influx of hippies into Taos sometimes led to tension with local residents, including Hispanic and Native American communities, who had deep roots and established ways of life in the area. But there were also instances of cultural exchange and mutual influence. Some hippies became deeply interested in Native American spiritual practices and artistic traditions. Over time, the presence of the hippie community contributed to Taos’s reputation as a hub for alternative lifestyles and artistic creativity.
The term "acid head" refers to someone who frequently uses LSD, a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Being an "acid head" is often associated with certain lifestyles and behaviors, particularly those linked to the counterculture movements of the 1960s and 1970s. However, it's important to note that drug use and its effects can vary greatly among individuals, and the following generalizations may not apply to everyone.
Many acid heads during the peak periods of LSD popularity were part of the counterculture movement. They often rejected mainstream societal norms, including conventional dress, career paths, and lifestyle choices. LSD users are often drawn to artistic and creative pursuits. This can include music, visual arts, writing, or dance, reflecting the enhanced sensory experiences and altered perceptions induced by the drug.
Some acid heads preferred communal living environments, sharing spaces with like-minded individuals. These communes were often based on principles of shared resources, collective decision-making, and alternative lifestyles. This includes an affinity for psychedelic music, art, and literature, which often explore themes of transcendence, altered states of consciousness, and societal critique.
A general attitude of nonconformity and questioning of authority was common. This could manifest in political activism, unconventional dress, and alternative lifestyle choices.
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David Hoffman filmmaker
Another great stoned hippie interview from Taos -
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😁💯👌👀❗ G~G.
I did my first and last LSD trip the night before I left for Basic at Lackland AFG in 1970. The airplane ride, in 1970, was great. Not so great went the drill sgt ordered "HAAAARCCCCHHHH RIIIGGGHHHTTTTT!!!!!!!" and I went left. LOL. Thanks for the memories.
I fucking love acid so much. It's changed my life in so many positive ways. I only wish that it wasn't so difficult to get ahold of.
TJ Miller has a father. This is him
Is his name Tao or Taos? My name is Tao and I’ve never met one that wasn’t Chinese haha
He talks like he never quite stopped tripping
@@OlafProtfor me it was the glades and Forrests of Oregon and Washington. Every weekend, and most of my 90s summers at community-focused pop up psychedelic festivals of 30-2000 trippers all speaker humping and acting autonomously.
Sometimes I feel like I never stopped.. maybe one day I will wake up and be young again.. and then I feel sorry for thinking the good people in my life are not real.
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I like how he talked
@@codyrodriguez1056 I apologize for the late response. What are you confused about😉
This dude is absolutely secure in himself.
I wonder how you came to that conclusion 🙄
@@sosinati3358way to bust some balls for someone making an observation you’re a super genius!
not gon lie all of yall are some fkin losers.
I was going to like this but I’d seen the number so you get this instead 👍
@@sagitarriulus9773gentleman
i love his phrase: "i was very attractive to gays, i wish i was to women" this guys awesome!
Cause he attracted to men he’s awesome? Oh I don’t know that. Thanx. 🤦
@@congibaemyahta4947your reading comprehension is wild
@@congibaemyahta4947he’s saying Homosexuals found him attractive but he wished he got that type of treatment and attention from Women instead
@@congibaemyahta4947how to make yourself look like a complete buffoon, 101.
@@congibaemyahta4947cringe 😬😬😬
That guy is a great story teller. He must have been a blast to drop acid with
Yeah until he starts talking about how much he hates the "spades". Yikes. Dude is pretty damn racist for a hippie flower child.
he is
@@brentlyday2728 🤟😛
"i was outta acid. I was outta hash. And I was outta there."
That's what's up!!!
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When I was a kid growing up in the 1980s, I hung out with an older crowd because I found them to be more interesting than kids my own age. The man in this video reminds me of the coolest of the Baby Boom generation, people who I admired when I was growing up.
One of those people was a guy named Tom. My friend and I met Tom when we were both 13 years old and walking past his house. Tom was a 35 year old housebound parapalegic, due to having Polio when he was a kid. He called out to us as we were walking by, since he was out of smokes and was having a nicotine craving, and wanted us to buy him some unfiltered Camel cigarettes, which we happily did for him.
For years afterward, I'd go over to his house and talk to him for hours. He loved telling stories of growing up as a hippie in the 60s, listening to psychedelic music, smoking dope, and enjoying free love. He'd tell me about people he knew who had overdosed, became burnouts, joined cults, or lived in communes. He knew all about Eastern religions, spirituality, tarot cards, crystals, astrology, the whole nine yards.
Tom was a real treasure trove of information, and a great storyteller, just like the guy in this video. I haven't seen him since the 1990s, but he left an indelible mark on my childhood. Good times back then.
I bet you’ve got so many memories and the stories to tell of Tom’s! That is truly a treasure you’ll hold on to forever! Maybe you’ll see him again one day ❤
I hope one day you have the chance to see Tom again and tell him how much his stories meant to you. I bet that would mean the world to him. Thanks for sharing part of your journey.
Great story. Thank you
I wonder who sold a 12 year old unfiltered camels? 😂
Aww, I hope Tom had a great life after. People are better for having people like that in their lives. Glad you got to know him, I'm sure he had great fun with you guys. Thanks for hanging with him.
I liked his way of talking a lot
Yes his cadence and dynamics are superb
Ye interesting
When a natural story teller, telling his OWN story....
Captivating
Last of a dying breed. I don't think people today can tell stories.Or are as adept at the art of conversation as those of previous generations in my opinion.
@@Shinobi33 you're absolutely right.
@@Shinobi33People don't read anymore. How can you tell a story if you aren't exposed to any? I'm a firm believer in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis- a native speaker's language dictates how they think. If your syntax, grammar, and vocabulary are basic and you have bad writing style, your thoughts will be basic and have no style.
@@joelglanton6531 You can pin the blame on Social Media for our regression. Yet here we are communicating on a social media forum. Only having been able to watch and learn about this gentleman's story because of Social Media. Quite the conundrum.
@@joelglanton6531I've never heard of that hypothesis but it makes total sense
I can’t help but like this guy
We need a longer version of his story
Ya this is super interesting
Reminded me of my hippy days, tea time and tons of experiences with a family of friends.
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Gotta hand it to this guy! 👏👏👏He was certainly a colorful storyteller!
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i want this dude to be an audiobook narrator
I really enjoy listening to him and his poetic descriptors. I need him to start voicing audiobooks
Was thinking the same thing, especially when he said "no thanks, baby" talkin bout McDonalds lol
Can we all pause to appreciate that he made his hiding spot in the middle of a gym?
Yeah, this was the way things went for so many of us back in the 60’s … and some of us are still hanging out in this plane of being. Love Peace and Joy! Our goals seem so mainstream now😇🤗🙄
And that was definitely a contributing factor in your generation embodying the egocentric, borderline narcissistic views of self and overestimation of their own wisdom which lead to actions and movements who's negative repercussions are still felt today. Glad you enjoyed things while they were great, if only yall cared enough to preserve it for the rest of us
@@LateNightRewrites - Wow! Such an amazing and strong response. Positivity and gratitude for all the good things that happen everyday really does help us all cope with the challenges of these times; I hope your future builds on the good things that have happened to you, too.
@@elisabethm9655you drug addicts all talk the same. Only looking for positive in the negative things you guys set for yourselves and the rest of us. You always try to seem positive, it’s annoying. Y’all are nothing but druggies and narcissistic, you are disregarding my opinion and words as we speak so you can give me some great talk like you’re better than me, like you know more. It’s so easy to spot you guys out from the rest of us, you guys talk like you’re better, with such “wisdom”, while being so indulgently close minded and addicted to drugs. You guys really are the lowest of the low.
@@LateNightRewrites perfectly said!! At the end of the day they only cared about themselves
@@elisabethm9655 at least I don't take for granted the benefits afforded to my generation as being permanent and indestructible despite foolish policies pushed in pursuit of momentary self gratification. Glad you could own a home on a high school grad's single income though.
What a great story teller about his life.( No judgment.) It's his journey. Thank you, David.❤
Oh thank god you didn't judge !!! Whewwwww
David this guy is Far Out Man! I have seen other interview clips of this guy that you have posted on your channel what a fascinating life he had led I'm glad his suicide attempt failed and found a meaning to live and talk about his experience in the 1960's and 70's I hope he has never lost the joy he has found in life.
Hugs are everything... We're a hugging family... Even if we're mad at each other, we hug.
You Mr Hoffman, are an absolute legend for providing this treasure trove of amazing vintage footage for everyone to enjoy.
Thank you.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
This guy has euphoric recall in a big way.
Hi David, is there a longer interview with him? It seems to end adruptly . What an amazing man, very articulate and paints a vivid picture when telling his story !
I have not posted the full interview as yet. It is on my list. Thank you Noah.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Please post!
I can't WAIT for this, thanks David. This guy is something else.
@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Thanks for the reply ! Can’t wait! I’m sure you can tell I binge your videos all the time by all my comments I leave, haha. Looking forward to the full video.
PLEASE do so. Really. This is just so totally captivating. This guy is like poetry, the way he talks.
I always liked Ron Howard. Didn't realize he was a hippie though.
He was really far out! Thanks David for reminding me of my youth...😎👍
“I began to start to hate the Air Force”
Real
Army-retired psychonaut here. I love mushrooms. I went from being an extremely conservative war-supporting fuckface to being a total hippie and humanist in a matter of weeks upon trying amanita muscaria. I'm just glad that I retired before I ever tried it or I would have been extremely uneasy with myself given my occupation, had I come to realize some of the things I have since tripping.
Psychedelic drugs will definitely do that lol
Wonderful story! I really enjoyed listening to this. Truly, David, thank you so much for sharing this ❤
Thank You David for sharing
Thanks for sharing this, that guy shur can really talk lol a real story teller. You have a peaceful day Mr Hoffman ✌️☮️
Right On Brother I can dig what you’re saying Man
I'm glad you included the full video I love this dude
Amazing story teller.
This sounds like a Rodger from American Dad monologue
Well now I can't take this serious anymore
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who heard it
duuuuuuuuude fuck yeah
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Best comment!
Once you heard it, you can't unhear it 😄
Man this is so cool! Thanks for sharing this interview
💓 Thank you David.
Interesting to listen to Thanks David❤️
This man is a great storyteller! I could heard him all day 😊
Fascinating. Anywhere I see the whole interview? His experience really resonates with my experience in Rave culture 1994-2010. The subculture-associated affilial love, particularly. There was a real moment, seemingly, where both our experiences were horizon-to-horizon real, before straight culture co-opted and commodified that experience to sell cars and lifestyles.
Very true. 95 -00
Great story telling. I appreciate your time.
Amazing. Captivating.
This guy is fantastic to listen to. I must say he definitely tapped into some extra portion of the brain lol. But, hey, whatever it takes to stay alive. He also looks genuinely HAPPY.
I'll refer you to where you can get your psychedelics
On Instagram
Ayahuasca henry
You know David you really seem to focus on the most interesting and uncommon topics especially as seen in respect and alongside of todays world filled with celebrity culture and ultra consumerism. And you do it so lovingly and without judgment. You are probably my favorite documentarian and a much needed voice in today's sterile, cut and dried, know it all society hellbent on division of class and culture, devoid of tolerance. What the hell happened to live and let live and love for those less fortunate. Everyone seems so hard and humourless anymore. I feel underwhelmed by the lack of real love and overwhelmed by rules and laws.
Thank you Chris.
David Hoffman filmmaker
This guy is something else, too cool for school!!! Nothing but LOVE!!! `-;
Really great interviewee, he is totally honest and very entertaining.
This dude is lit af
I'd not seen this segment of this great storytellers hippie experience! I believe him for his self label of HIPPIE!
So where was Taos? This guy was a San Fransisco hippie. I lived in Taos at the time. Family Commune. Thanks Chic! I owe you some bulk organic oats and pinto beans.
New mexico
This guy is a trip.
I love this guy! What a legend.
So interesting. Unapologetically himself!
I also loved to discover the intricate patterns of the weeds too 💙🦋
i really enjoy the way he talks
as im a poet & lyricist this was beautiful - he seems at peace ✌🏼
I just watched this whole interview, of all your interviews etc, THIS is the guy Id love to see or know how he is now.
I’m not gay, but this dude seems fun to be around.
He’s said he wants women multiple times
Thinking another man would be an interesting friend has nothing to do with sexuality. No matter what you've been told!
Go eat some acid & you can be like him … once you trip your forever changed
@@ljones6717Possibly the comment was a joke about how the man says gay guys were all over him
The man is a poet
The fact they were all watching this is crazy to me. We all just decided to watch this at at this time lol
Guy from Taos. Life emerged somewhere near Taos
Fascinating interview
This guy is the greatest narrator of all time. Genius x
I have to keep reminding myself that he’s not 45!👀😊 Great story 💐💐
He was 45 when this was filmed in 1989
@@timharper4246 Oh 😂😂 That makes sense, I thought it was all that acid 🤣😂
I don't get it.
@@LionhartM I didn’t realized that the documentary was from over 30 years ago… 😊 I was thinking he looked pretty good for being decades older than I 🤣😂🤣
Hi David Hoffman good afternoon, did you just hear on the news that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has pass away today she was 96. She was at a hospice place were they say "At the end of life is part of living" 😢
This guy is a phenomenal storyteller, wish he had memoir or something lol
I Was waiting for him to say more,story telling
Yes, those were the days! Turn on, Tune in, drop out!
I like old stories like this... mentally, I don't think he never left that era, he probably lives that everyday???
Good interview. I was right with him all the way up to him saying “the spades”. I grew up in the midwest at the time this was all happening and all my friends were as active in the war protests as the civil rights movement. I knew Yippies and Panther Party members as my equals… haven’t heard the term since them days, thankfully. Maybe it was a “cool” alternative to the N-word. Never used it, myself. Glad it fell out of fashion.
So upon watching this interview, ive found "the spades" is not only a racial slur but was apparently also a community advocacy group/self policing community in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
I've only ever heard it used as a slur my whole life (im 26, so it hasnt disappeared entirely apparently) but on the same note my entire life i had never learned about this group, let alone heard it mentioned in school.
Ive seen a good bit of comments alluding to that group being what hes referring to. But this is the internet so ill have to take everything with a grain of salt, not to mention this was recorded in very different times.
In the 60s, "spade" was nowhere near the level of the N-word, and was barely pejorative, if at all. It was more used to describe AA/Black people in almost a "don't mess with them because they are tough" category, i.e. spade was a subset of black people that were particularly badass and in charge of groups, like one would describe Hell's Angels or something. It eventually fell out of wider use and if used today would definitely be a racist slur. But I gave him a bit of a pass at the time of the interview, 1989, and in describing the 1960s, both white and black people would use the term as way down the pecking order of pejoratives into the realm of a descriptor of someone tough and in the know in an urban setting. The interviewee definitely had his mind re-wired by LSD use, but I am not going so far as to say for the worse, because I don't know what he was like beforehand. He also clearly had plenty of sexual encounters with all types and although he may consider himself heterosexual, he would the type of heterosexual that has had multiple homosexual experiences as a product of lifestyle and had no judgements on it, but "preferred" or likely didn't have that essential gene that leads someone to understand they are in fact gay. He is certainly a great snapshot of how someone of above average intelligence could become quite articulate just through going to public high school back then. To me this is also an illustration of how a high school education in the 60s is likely equivalent to a bachelor's degree today. Oh, how far we have regressed.....Super great and interesting interview, thank you.
We're to the part where we're going w/ninjas and nickles
@@jaybee7890very well stated! Yeah he’s definitely had a full spectrum of experiences..nothing wrong with that though!! ❤
Once you've turned On,you never turn Off. Its a powerful tool for transformation,dissolves boundaries.
Yeah...that's the problem - some folks never turned off..
@@TheMidoriDreams i think you are refering to psychotic people, op is not talking about that
@@federicogarcia9470no… being a pothead/acidhead is what he’s referring to. “Once you’ve turned on”, LOL give me a break, what a sugarcoated way to say drug addict. All of y’all are fucking junkies lol.
Not having boundaries is a horrible idea
Interesting.It had the effect on me of wanting to close myself off.1 trip,I couldn't speak for a day.I could think of retort in conversation or reply to questions...I just didn't want to or wouldn't talk.I did it a couple more times but it just made me bum on people and want to be by myself
(especially since the circles that I'd become associated with turned out to be not worth any of the time invested).
Don't recommend it but if you do it, remember allways that you've taken a mind altering psychotropic substance,
so as to come out of it w/o losing something cerebral that you may want for later.
People and environment have a real influence after it dissolves and is absorbed, which in wrong combination,can make a trip "bad".
(Bad trip can be rolled out of,but hysteria will prolong negative thought effect).
Dude's a trip, some heavy shit man.
This sounds like an audiobook autobiography
Man I need more of this guy
amazing stuff
This looks like it was filed in the 80s or 90s maybe, it would be great to see an update, he is so interesting
White Osley? Wow! We only had purple Osley!
Amazing that Bear's finest made it all the way to Florida from SF. But he really was producing in such mass quantity that he could supply the whole U.S. #Owsley
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@@RAEckart22 between him and Sands (and sands partner whos name i cant recall) didnt they produce enough hits of acid to dose the world population like twice over?
@@100GTAGUY Someone's biography I remember them talking about Owsley & mentioning he was cooking up a batch (in liquid form that would later be applied to tabs). The liquid quantity would supply 10 million tabs, though!
🤔🤨💬> When I was 12 I bought joints for 25 cents from migrants picking potatoes in S/W. Mt. in 1959 They seemed to enjoy it so much. I thought it was Bull Durham. I never learned it was hoot until high school 🤠Yup❕ G~G.
I thought that I knew some real hippies. But they seem as straight laced as can be next to him. This guy is a REAL hippy. He may not look the part. But he definitely conveys it in every facet of his personality.
I get some of the things this guy was talking about. I remember not trusting straight people which to meant to me short hair, no facial hair and no bell bottomed pants were straights. Anyway thanks for sharing the video.
hey this was amazing. wonder what this dude is up to now. all those hippies gotta be so old now you would never get the colorful story telling that you got from this man
I like this guy alot
he told this like he was reading for an audiobook. great voice
I see comments talking about “this man seems like he still tripping.” I guess that’s what speaking articulately and being secure in yourself is known as now. We tripping dawg.
San Francisco was a wonderful flowery place as imagined during the Summer of Love in the 1960's but it devolved into a lawless open sewer where drug addicts lie.
So true revolutionaryhamburger, a friend who had lived that life once lamented: "I have seen many previously dedicated healthy surfers end up on the human scrap heap of degradation and addiction."
@@dantzmusic- the introduction of heavy addictives like heroin and coke was actually part of a govt strategy. It became the 70’s and he’ll ensued for so many.😢
@@elisabethm9655 Didn't know that, but it certainly had a diabolic influence!
"We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel."
@@TheMidoriDreams TOO WEIRD TO LIVE, TOO RARE TO DIE!
CANT STOP HERE!!
Mr Hoffman, what is this guys name. His energy is awesome! Didn’t even realize it was filmed in 89. Great video!!
I do not share the names of the people interviewed back then without their permission and I do not have his.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Healthy looking and smart guy, wonder if he's still around.
Dude looks like my old pe teacher, he also definitely took tabs in his youth😂
It’s so weird, being a 24 year old adult who loves psychadelics now. I grew up around San Francisco. It’s funny to me to imagine that these may have been common faces that I may have seen while my mom was rushing us down the street or something. I sort of feel like he looks familiar. But at the same time. I’ve seen countless of people in my lifetime. Nonetheless I think that we seriously need to consider
Ive done loads of acid back in the 90s. Im still straight but my perspective on life changed drastically. This dudes alright in my book.
Ryan Reynolds needs an Oscar for this
If you close your eyes this guy sounds exactly like Ryan Reynolds Deadpool character
I was thinking Buddy Cole, Scott Thompson's character in Kids in the Hall.
Thanks!
Thank you.
David Hoffman Filmmaker
Dude i fucking love this guy id so drop with him...
Idk…I kinda like him lol. Thank u for sharing.
Quite an honest, heartfelt and insightful interview indeed. Yet, the hippie movement of the 1960’s was a rebellion against traditional moral and social values. Young people in particular searched for happiness and the meaning of life through mind-altering drugs and the philosophies of the movement’s so-called gurus and high priests. Nevertheless, the hippie movement failed to bring genuine happiness. Instead, it helped to produce drug addicts and promiscuous youths, accelerating society’s downward slide into moral confusion. Morally, we can clearly see the cumulative heart wrenching results in today's increasingly decaying society.
Maybe You 🙂👀❕ G~G.
lol no. I’d say the government screwed over this country more than anything. Literally selling drugs to its own citizens to fund foreign rebels. A country that jams buy, buy, buy down our throats. A country that will shove in anything in your face, that they approve of, to distract you from actually thinking or dissenting from the “norm”.
America was never a utopia. Maybe for white people it was and I’m white. Where was the traditional moral values that you speak of when people of this country lynched/harassed minorities or other groups who didn’t fit in.
You see the US was never a bastion of moral integrity. Not when the government overthrows democratically elected governments of foreign nations, not when they sell drugs to their own citizens to fund wars, not when they spy on us and violate our rights without cause, not when they collude to kill minority leaders or spy on them.
They knew traditional moral and social values ARE ALL BS in this society. People who grew up with traditional moral and social values created the countries problems we have today.
So don’t blame the hippies, at least they saw the matrix and realized it’s BS. Traditional moral and social values my fucking ass. Ya they were a little wacky. I couldn’t live their lifestyles and do that much amount of drugs, even though I’ve dabbled to say the least but ya they saw the world for what it is. On the surface it’s shallow, fake, and frankly bull shit. But then there’s all this values stuff that doesn’t even matter cause ppl will sell their soul for money and often go against their “supposed” values.
The government doesn’t like that these people saw the world as an economic machine devoid of any real happiness. You’re just a body meant to produce wealth for someone else.
Can’t have hippies living in the middle of nowhere, practicing mini communism in communes while doing drugs and rejecting traditional social norms and values.
Now can a society be run like that. No probably not but at least they tried something else. Tried to escape the economic machine that has caused all the problems I think your placing on hippies or whoever else you blame it on.
This world SUCKS. The leaders of this world are literally stealing from us and then make us fight over shit like traditional values and morals, WHEN THAT SHIT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A LIE used to make us fight and segregate one another.
The US government and its cronies are to blame. So controlling and subtle yet we are so “free”.
too many leaps and assumptions here dantz...your mileage may vary
who ordered a yappacino?
no such thing as anything u say
drugs are good
The Ryan Reynolds-Gary busey love child is back!!
Interesting, and a glimpse into the hippy time period. "Spades," never heard that term....
He sounds like a racist hippie to me.
@@Catlily5looks like he had his reasons for it, as most people do.
@@timharper4246 In my experience most reasons for racism are Not good reasons at all.
@@Catlily5 crazy no one else is calling out his casual racism and just praising his stroytelling
@@AllenSmithe Yeah, it is disappointing that more people don't see it, aren't bothered by it or both.
What a legend 🤩
He looks like how Ron Howard would look if I looked at him while I was tripping
he reminds me of that happy dude from 30 rock
What I find most interesting about this movement is the majority of the hippies involved became the very generation they so vehemently protested against back then.
@@Applecider-Poetry take a look at your own ignorance. I can see spelling isn’t a strong trait in your arsenal. Ppfffttt be gone with you.
Prove it?
@@briansosacolman5063 What an idiotic question that only a keyboard warrior would make. Let me come down to your level; prove I’m wrong.
It’s because they were wrong. At least I think mostly wrong. Hippie culture bore good fruits, but was a HUGE overcorrection.
Cause they didn't keep evolving with drugs and new discovery. I take high dose srooms
Wow can he put words together! He speaks in prose, I wonder if he’s just rehearsed this story a lot or if that’s how he talks
He look like Opie being dopey! Loved it!
It's Howdy Doody Time.
It's Howdy Doody Time.
Bob Smith and Howdy too
Say Howdy Do to you.
Let's give a rousing cheer,
Cause Howdy Doody's here,
It's time to start the show,
So kids let's go!