Posted on 05/13/2007 2:06:08 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The Hippie movement was the most controversial and influential of modern times. Free love, the peace movement, drugs, Eastern religions and communes are explored. Meet the figures whose words and actions inspired it and destroyed it. See how the vibrations from that era are still resonating today in almost every aspect of American life, from the clothes we wear, to the Personal Computer and the Internet. Finally, historic footage, stills and period graphics are interwoven with expert commentary and eyewitness testimony.
I marched for equal rights for all...but when my friends marched against the war, I didn’t join them I always thought communism was bad and the anti war movement was anti patriotic.
My friends could never figure me out on that one. ha.
Dr. King veered into anti-war commentary, but the issues were quite separate, in my opinion too.
In my entire life, I’ve never met an “Objectivist chick”.
Objectivist chicks were the chicks heavily into the Ayn Rand scene. They thought of themselves as rational independent thinkers but recited the Ayn Rand routine word for word. Also they were fairly humorless. However, the plus was they easily gave it up if you could fake the Objectivist routine which wasn't hard if you read her books. Usually it was no tougher than pretending that Atlas Shrugged was an incredible work of literary art despite being full of cardboard characters who apparently had no sweat glands.
It’s hard to imagine Cary Grant tripping more than sixty times. WOW!
I got a laugh out of that monkey and mouse on acid.
Yeah, I already know how this is going to go. Not 3 minutes into the show they are already jumping in how great LSD is. I am sick and tired of having this stuff sold to me and not telling the truth about how destructive the counterculture really was.
I don't think they were saying how great acid was. However the cartoon about Dr. Hoffman tripping on acid in Switzerland was pretty funnie.
Too bad it’s not in smell-o-vision so we could have the full effect.
Same here!
The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test was one of my favorite books as a teenager. I had a very romanticized view of the 60's......I know better now.
Mountain Girl featured in this documentary was a big character in that book.
Well 20 minutes into it at least some brave soul said that this behavior had bad consequences. I just noted that hate America leftist Todd Gitlin made an appearance. Its either Gitlin (or Micheal Lerner, can’t remember which one) that got married with wedding rings fashioned out of a down US military jet in Vietnam. I remember that story from David Horowitz.
Oddly enough hippie "culture" really trickled down to Middle America in the early 70s. This is when all the good old boys down south were growing their hair long and blasting Molly Hatchet.
On a final note, my father, who went into the Army in January 1967, remembers finishing his Army career at the Presidio in San Francisco in late 1969. By that time the "bubblegummers" had been pouring into the Haight, and my father had never seen so many young girls, within the boundaries of the USA, involved in prostitution, in this case to support their drug habit.
In other words, even from January 1967 to November 1969, the world had changed considerably.
I always felt bad for the guy, can't remember his name, who was conflicted about being "on the bus." He had a wicked bad trip when the Pranksters got to NY to see Timothy Leary.
I think he wound up in a hospital, poor guy.
So far, I’m enjoying this documentary. It doesn’t plug the Hippies so much as to just inform us as to what was going on. Notice that one of the commentators is the senior editor of National Review and another is with the Heritage Foundation.
Interesting program.....
Well, now they are into the bummer phase when the hippies turn to hard drugs like heroin.
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