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Thread ID: 14804 | Posts: 5 | Started: 2004-08-24
2004-08-24 01:57 | User Profile
The Hippies
by Robert Klassen
I wasnââ¬â¢t a hippie. I was born before WWII, so I was a little too old. I was also raising a family and working two jobs when the hippies arrived. But I couldnââ¬â¢t help noticing them, and wondering about them.
We had a sick baby in a San Francisco hospital at the time, and I drove through the Haight district and Golden Gate Park every day, marveling at the colorful costumes and the wild hair these children wore. Where did they come from? How could they afford to bum around like this?
I found some answers eventually. They came from post-war middle-class suburbs all over the country, and their parents were paying for their juvenile antics. That they had access to money was not lost on marketing departments, especially in the recording industry.
This was the first generation of human beings to grow up in front of a television set. Their parents owned a car, or maybe two. Electricity was a given, running water and indoor plumbing were taken for granted. These kids did not hunt for food, or grow food, and their clothes came new from a store. Most did not have to work for anything, not even a high school diploma. And, naturally, they were all going to college.
The hippies were given what they wanted, and like anybody who didnââ¬â¢t earn their own money, they didnââ¬â¢t know what to do with it, so they threw it away. In their search for "meaning" in screaming music and drugged minds, many declared for a "new lifestyle," and the hippie commune was born.
This was a natural enough development from the elementary urges to get stoned, get laid, and get away with it, aided and abetted by whatever infantile notions of Marxism they carried away from public school. But problems emerged: no electricity, no running water, no indoor plumbing, and no shopping mall. This might be fine for a dry California summer, but it would not be fine for a wet, cold winter.
I never worried much about the stinking "long hairs," even though we were seeing a lot of hepatitis and venereal disease where I worked. I figured that since these were middle-class kids, theyââ¬â¢d soon grow up, and revert to their childhood values. I see that I was right ââ¬â and wrong.
The hippies are all fifty-something now; they grew up. If they talk about those days at all, itââ¬â¢s usually in hushed and private tones, complete with grins and giggles. Most are college graduates, most are respectable professionals, most expect a healthy retirement in a few more years, and most didnââ¬â¢t learn a thing from their youthful fling in the gutter. Itââ¬â¢s still the "me" generation.
Something essential is missing from this generation: a solid sense of right and wrong. Whatever their parents may have believed, and held sacred, was evidently washed out by television, schools, and the perpetually growing insanity of the state. The hippies escaped their war, but have no particular judgment about war. The hippies laugh at their first presidentââ¬â¢s peccadilloes, and shrug off his lies under oath; so whatââ¬â¢s an oath? The hippies believe that lying, cheating, and stealing are normal, and fine, if you donââ¬â¢t get caught.
The hippies are well represented in the District of Criminals today. They expect to get their Social Security, and the future be damned. They gobbled up the gift from the Fed, and the future be damned. Their own children are almost too old for the draft, and the future be damned.
The hippies got away with it when they were young. The hippies got away with it all of their lives. But while they gloat in middle age, they better have a glance at the total bankruptcy that lurks in their assumptions.
Life in the commune was only pleasant during the summer.
August 21, 2004
Robert Klassen [send him mail] is a retired med tech and writer. Here's his web site.
[url]http://www.lewrockwell.com/klassen/klassen56.html[/url]
2004-08-24 12:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]The Hippies
by Robert Klassen
We had a sick baby in a San Francisco hospital at the time, and I drove through the Haight district and Golden Gate Park every day,
I found some answers eventually.
This was the first generation of human beings to grow up in front of a television set. Their parents owned a car, or maybe two. Electricity was a given, running water and indoor plumbing were taken for granted. These kids did not hunt for food, or grow food, and their clothes came new from a store. Most did not have to work for anything, not even a high school diploma. And, naturally, they were all going to college.
Something essential is missing from this generation: a solid sense of right and wrong... [/QUOTE]
I wasn't a hippie either....but they were far superior to those who supported a lying president who killed, as it turned out, for Catholics and Jews.
They didn't get it together enought to finish the job-- too much right wing psychopathic suipport for lying and killing, just like today. Finishing the job means to destroy all the institutions and individuals who just waited 40 years to start in again. The real ones who had that solid sense of right and wrong, of course, to hear Dr. Jewinsky here tell it, were the lying killers. It was a failed generation, allright, but the anus falls on the ones who betrayed America, then and now. Those who got away from people like that at a least had a chance at living their own lives. No hope, no help, just hell for the baby boomers driving their babies through the Haight today.
2004-08-25 13:36 | User Profile
[I]"I wasn't a hippie either....but they were far superior to those who supported a lying president who killed, as it turned out, for Catholics and Jews."[/I]
I wasn't a Flower Power hippie, either. Never wore beads, never painted my face, never could understand what all the fuss over the Beatles was about. Never liked rock music at all, for that matter. I got married in 1969, and was too busy just trying to make a living to have the time for the vacuous hippie mystique.
But I think Tex is absolutely right, here. The hippies and their sympathizers -- and I admit I was one of them -- were the only ones actively opposed to the Kennedy-Johnson-Humphrey war machine, and I give them full credit for that.
As an aside, I get a little tired of hearing the under-25 hotheads of the White nationalist movement constantly whining about how it was "The Boomers" who brought amerika to its present degraded state. Well, of course real history hasn't been taught in public "schools" for at least 20 years, and blaming your parents' generation for the ills of the world is a tradition that goes back to the first Neanderthal who lived long enough to become a teenager. But they might at least take the trouble to learn that the sixties were a far more complex sociological period than MTV revisionism would have us believe. In fact, even the majority of those of us who rejected the far-out hippie "philosophy" (as if it were ever that coherent) were vehemently opposed to the Vietnam war and to those who callously manipulated it for nothing more than their political advantage. I personally knew several draft dodgers of that era, and to a man (and their wives), every one of them was farther to the right than even the most vehement of today's Stormfronters -- and, interestingly, every bit as racialist.
The notion that everyone who was young in the sixties was a radical leftist has been promoted then and since by the governmedia because it serves to advance the NWO-socialist cause. We are forever being told by the left that our entire generation "changed the world for the better," and that if we want that "progress" to continue, we'd better all vote Democratic and lap up political correctness like wine. And those who believe this nonsense point to the klinton presidency as "proof." Yet oddly enough, they seem to conveniently forget that the sixties generation was doing just as much voting during the Reagan and Bush presidencies, and that the current membership of the NRA falls massively into that age group.
My experience of the sixties was that the number of robe-wearing, LSD-popping nude-love-in freaks who mugged for the cameras and traipsed around behind the Hoffmans and Ginsburgs of the day was mainly a tiny, highly-visible minority of overprivileged college students from wealthy, already-liberal, families. In the twenties, they would have been bathtub-gin-swilling sheiks and shebas, and just as unrepresentative of the majority of their age group. The cold fact is that most of us were disgusted by the hypocrisy and cynical manipulation behind the war, yet were in no way tempted by the drugs, irresponsibility or gullibility of the hippie left. But the governmedia weren't interested in putting the likes of us in front of their cameras, and so it was as if we didn't exist. Consequently, according to what passes for "history" these days, we didn't, and still don't.
[I]"The real ones who had that solid sense of right and wrong, of course, to hear Dr. Jewinsky here tell it, were the lying killers."[/I]
Yeah, you can almost hear him stamping on the floor and screaming "Oy vey!" as he spews his bile at the entire Sixties generation (Gentiles only, of course) -- as if they were all cut from exactly the same cloth. Sounds to me as if, forty years later, he's still jealous of all those peace-signing White flower-power boys who were getting the pretty White free-love girls.
[I]"It was a failed generation, allright, but the anus falls on the ones who betrayed America, then and now."[/I]
I was going to correct your spelling on this humorous typo, Tex -- the word you were looking for is "onus," not "anus." But on second thought, maybe your version is more accurate after all. Here's hoping the Great Universal Anus [I]does[/I] fall on those who turned our America into the present-day cesspit called amerika, then and now.
2004-08-25 15:52 | User Profile
WE ALL NEEDED THAT! THIS IS THE REAL STUFF. (yes, the mispelling was intentional. Anality goes with the return of sadism; please see the post under Philosohy, "Why Jews must suffer.")
all best
2004-08-25 15:56 | User Profile
[I]"the mispelling was intentional"[/I]
Mah humble apologies, suh...