When I was growing up there was a group of people that
thought they knew it all. They had it
together, they got it. Remember
the hippies of the 1960’s and ‘70’s?
They were mostly young city kids.
They came from all over the country and they covered the spectrum of the
US population. Of course, they were not
all kids but mostly kids and the young at heart.
I grew up in ’60s and ’70s … I was a kid then. It was an era of great sadness, struggle, and
victory. It was a time of change.
It was a time of marches, set-ins, slogans, and chants: make love, not
war … turn on, tune in, drop out. These always
come to mind when I think about those days.
Did I mention the riots? Yes, it was also a time of riots.
It was a time of revolution in the US. There was the drug
revolution, the sexual revolution, the feminist revolution, and a few more. The
drug revolution gave us a new culture - the drug culture. Hippies played a tremendous
role in that, especially the college hippies (after all they were the smartest,
most put together of all the hippies). They were the “activist of activists” in
a time of activism ... or at least they thought they were.I’m not going into a history of the ’60 and ’70. That would take too much of your time. I’ll just say that history has shown that much of the activism of the era hasn’t helped make this country better off or happier (with the exception of African-American civil rights).
Hippies are still around today. We don’t call them hippies anymore, but they’re
still hippies and they still come from the same old places as they did before. They still believe that they have it together
and that they get it. Well, they didn’t back them, and they don’t get it
now. They’re still pushing the same old
anti-American, anti-family messages they always have. There’s nothing new about them other than their
faces.
They’re chanting again, creating silly slogans again,
rioting again, and dreaming up even more cultural destruction … it’s what they
do. Some of them will grow out of it,
just like they did in the 1980’s and ‘90’s (I hope). As for me, when I came of age I was so removed
from their way of thinking that I’ve never taken them seriously. And I believe there’s a next generation
coming up that sees the foolishness of this current crop of hippies as well. It is has been said “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, that’s how I see where our country is today. I wish it weren’t so. I pray it weren’t so.
