Love Or Hate Hippies From The 1960s Here Is The Best Documentary To Understand Them
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- čas přidán 12. 03. 2017
- Hippies. The word seems to provoke people one way or the other. There are so many comments on my channel regarding people who "hate" hippies although mostly, what they are talking about, isn't about hippies at all. The hippies my team found when we were making our television series on the 1960s for primetime PBS (it aired on TV in 1991) were not political. They avoided politics. They also avoided for the most part cities.
They were part of the counterculture. They mostly lived in the countryside. They provoked a national interest in organic food etc. Smoked dope for sure. Did a lot of other strange things and probably for the most part had loose free sex relationships. But they weren't the ones who for example, spit at returning Vietnam soldiers at the various airports of the United States. A very small group of political radicals did that who were aggressive and sometimes violent. Hippies had philosophies which many just went along with but some created.
Aggressive behavior was disapproved of even if only spoken. Hippie clothing was unique. Fabrics were "natural". Art was very flowery some of the time. Travel through America and traveling the world to other hippie centers was a part of life. When the city got too hard, you went to the countryside. There were many hippie behaviors based on values and ethics and then repeated by people who wanted to be part of the community.
Was it a cult? Some of the time. Was it a movement? Some of the time. Was it just teenagers not wanting to grow up - having a good time - living off the land or off mommy and daddy's money? Some of the time.
I interviewed many hippies or as some of them call themselves "x hippies" for my television series and for other films that I have made and most like that they were part of that generation and that movement. Some became practicing born-again Christians.
Some became farmers. Some became stockbrokers and businessmen. Some teachers and social workers. To categorize their actions after the 60s as any one thing is incorrect (such as that they are all greedy business people today).
I am very proud of the TV series I made for PBS called Making Sense of the Sixties. I had the chance to spend a year examining my youth and how I became an active member of the 60s generation. If you are from that generation or a child of the 60s, I think you would find the entire series of value.
Here is a quote from Hesiod in the 8th Century BC “I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly disrespectful and impatient of restraint" - Krátké a kreslené filmy
This is an outrageous television show from that time regarding the hippies - czcams.com/video/Tc6Zc-FtFT0/video.html
Very interesting one!!!
i can only assume the government buying it , then as always trying to weaponize it. they dosed a French fishing village, with out they know age , hence "south of France"
How's this show on hippies outrageous?
In my opinion, the pandemic had changed everything. I think it brought out all the bad with the good. In my case it sucked to be in quarantine, but it also helped me rethink life and what does true happiness look like? For me I dislike this hustle culture and the social media. I remember there once was a time were I held out on getting a smart phone when I was 17; I was happy just being in the moment. I lost that in my early twenties; I'm trying to regain it back. Times are gonna change this social media culture won't last forever. Forever is never promised.
Where can I find the rest of the Baby Boomer hippie documentary? It's very fascinating indeed!
I grew up during the 50’s & 60’s. I wanted to be a hippy. I was enthralled with the idea of the Summer of Love. But I grew up on a farm in Southeast Texas. High school had dress and hair codes. But I wanted to be a hippy. Then I joined the military and spent 12 years there. But I still wanted to be a hippy. Then after college I spent 30 years on a police dept. I retired. And I still wanted to be a hippy. So, now I am. I have not cut my hair in 5 years; I spend time in my garden growing organic things; I get to smoke pot legally; and I feed cats. My time is mine and I’m pretty happy. So, the moral of this story is: it’s never too late to be a hippy. Be cool and get in your groove!
Great to hear your story
now yer talkin'
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You were a COP and now you're a hippy? I guess you could say you've seen a thing or two! Holy crap!
To all tomorrows hippies then, salut! ✌
I remember when my older brothers started to grow their hair long and of course my mother hated it but my grandmother said she liked it because it reminded her of Jesus. Loved my grandma!
Wtf ... it reminded her of jesus !!
How old was your grandmother ?
who is jesus?
Grandma age.....70 something I believe. This was in the 60's and the famous picture of Jesus that everyone had on their walls during those days was similar to the hippie look, long hair and beardl
I'm sure you are 100% correct, that was my grandmother's perception, that's all. Who care's WHAT he looked like it, it was his message that was important. Thinking of Yeshua positively is a good thing no matter the association.
Oreo Cookie the reason to care is that the antichrist will mostly likely appear like that image and millions will follow him.
Praise God.
My dad kicked me out of the house at age 17 just as I started my senior year of high school because I wouldn't cut my hair. One of the best things he ever did for me. I learn to take care of myself that year. I never considered myself a hippie but I may have been perceived as one by others.
When covid shut down my barber shop I decided to grow my hair long again. Some people may perceive me as an old hippy now but in reality I'm just a self employed (musician) 68 year "old man".
"Old hippies never die, they just smell funny".
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A young girl told me she thought hippies always smelled like patchouli…she has a point. Lol.
I feel like my old self, with being born in 55, I’m pretty confident that the government sucks, I still don’t believe anything they say. Also because of the attitudes of my youth, I know that whatever happens, we can roll with the best. I feel sad for these kids today, most can’t imagine not being connected every moment of every day.
We dropped out and turned on, maybe not literally, but everyone I knew was creative, inventive, open minded for new thought, lived in the moment. It was a great time to be alive.
Kick a 17 year old out theses days will turn the kid into a gibbering reck as there’s absolutely nothing but homelessness unless they have other family or friends.
A Hippie owned barber shop?
The best thing about those times is that we were out directly experiencing life. Hiking, going to concerts, hanging out with friends, having deep conversations/ rapping, writing poetry, doing art, discussing tumultuous current events, making our own hippie clothes, sewing patches on jeans, etc. We walked everywhere. We were directly living life, because there was no internet, no cable TV. We just had the broadcasted channels. When UHF channels came about, it was a big deal. What we have now would have seemed like science fiction then. Life was about doing.
I love the internet, in doses. But I don't want to live life through a screen.
Well said.
I'm 72, and right there with you.
... as I'm reading this on a screen.
@@davidwaitman1610 😂
Right on. I'm so glad the Internet age came around after my adolescence. I've lived in both worlds and consider myself lucky for that.
As a young person myself, I am little jealous of the young people in the 60s..they are just so full of life and colorful, and they don't give a damn about how the world perceives them. Looking around, my peers look tired and depressed since their early teens and are constantly searching for approval of the mainstream society.
Go to Boulder Colorado where all the young people smoke dope, hang out in the mountains and bang drums in the park.
They were all drugged up pos losers. That's why the Baby Boomers rejected the Vietnam Generation completely.
@@jennyfox1398 😂
Until they get older
@@pollypurree1834 lol
As a preteen during the 60s Loved riding my bike up to hippies and talking to them. I remember them being kind and fun to talk to. I have only fond memories of the hippies.
That must have been cool. Apparently quite a few hippies were like that, I though that was the whole idea anyway.
I was a kid in the '80s (I'm Canadian) and holy crap could people ever be belligerent as all hell. Just total psychopaths. Incessant stalking, rape, assault etc.
The music was good but humanity's fucked.
@@devilsoffspring5519 80s was the angry generation, the punks
@@pulledtrigger the punks were actually quite chill if you ever talked to them. Most were not at all into violence or bothering anyone. Like the hippies, they were just visually signaling their countercultural stances by how they dressed and by the music they listened to. In a lot of ways, they were not that different than the hippies. The hippies ultimately became the very establishment that they were fighting against, and the punks were ultimately fighting against that. It's a natural progression.
Please @@skyhawk_4526
Seriously the coolest, chillest people you could meet. I'm only 20, so the only hippies I've ever met were in their 60s and 70s. They are exactly how i imagine they would've been 40-50 years ago. I loved listening to music and smoking pot with them. One of them died last year, and he never wanted a funeral. just wanted his ashes sprinkled in his wife's pot farm 😂 we rolled a doobie with his cigarette roller and listened to Willie Nelson's "Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die". Best sendoff ever. Miss you, Robby! I dont know what I'll do when all of my friends die of natural causes 😂
Born in 1957 made me 10 to 15 years old during the late 60s, early 70z. I've always felt deprived of having the full experience of the hippie movement and it has made me sad. But it definitely influenced my life. There was so much happening at that time. Vietnam, the Black Panthers, Woodstock, Kent State, the Denocratic National Convention in Chicago, drugs, sex, rock n roll. All while I was going through a critical growth phase. In my late 20s, early 30s I finally got to have my own mild "hippie experience" I have no regrets. It was the best time of my life.
Hey, trust me, you didn't miss anything. Remember, JE Hoover was everybody's puppet master. No matter who you were.
"Mother"
“Growing up in the 70’s was like coming to town the day after the circus left”… that was the phrase…
@@PYN111 u missed nothing but crazy
@@PYN111 That is an excellent analogy. That "left out" feeling.
Like you I was about five years too young to be a hippie. I didn't understand what was happening.
As a kid in the early 1960s, I met a guy who was riding his Harley across America. He told me about his life on the road. He worked odd jobs from cleaning mortar from bricks in brickyards to pitching hay and cleaning horse stalls on farms. He slept in fields and in wooded areas off the highways. He just wanted to be free from the constraints of the everyday grind. I asked him what got him interested in living the way he did. He said, "A guy named Kerouac wrote this here book called, 'On the Road.'" "That's all it took for me, kid," he added.
Is the book worth reading
@@CristianoRonaldo-pc9zr -- Yes, if you want to get an idea of what a free-wheeling lifestyle in America during the 1950s was all about. "The Beats" laid the foundation for American subculture. "The Hippies" were just a carry-over.
It’s a GREAT BOOK and every high school student now should read it !!
I still love being on the road- 7 continents in 70 years in five languages 💕
Goodness! This sounds just like that old tv show "Then Came Bronson"!
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it is more complicated than this. I am a 68er and there were many things we all had in common. Number one was to sound interesting. There was no internet, so you had to read to fit in, or belong to a spiritualisits union or some such alternative thing. We read books round the clock and the level of conversation was very different to the conversations I hear from young people in Berlin. The drugs were actually very weak compared to today's THC levels. I remember the ladies to be very independent and impossible to pin down. They were free spirits, dressed in old clothes and didn't rely on surgery or influencers. They were truly independent young ladies and quite a challenge. Buddhism and Hinduism were very popular so we were pretty cool about most things. Controlling your wants and desires was part of the experience as well, and respect for all life, all people, all animals and insects and fish were sacred. It was complicated and you didn't really understand it until you looked back on it and realised how it had formed your life forever. I can't escape 1968. It was an amazing year.
Hippy era near identical to tribal belief system. Thank you for reinforce tribal way of life 🥰
Berlin... just don't be yourself
I’m sure things were fucked up as well - perhaps not so different from today in ways.
But honestly, I’d trade a decade of the now to live through 60-70 asffff
I too remember the year 1968.. It would be the year I turned 7. And yes it was a very good year. And, yes I just turned 59. I love the hippies, and I dress and live my life that way. Say what you will about the hippies but I think that thay are far out.
Jack leary, Tim's only son was in my 9th grade homeroom at Millbrook high school in Sept.1964. We hunted deer and ducks together and worked on a spruce log cabin on the Hitchcock estate, road to and from school ocasionally in Jack's tan VW beetle, sampled S.C.U.B.A. diving, listened to Stones, Cream, Beach Boys records, shopped at the Habadashery in Po'keepsie, and suffered the trauma of G, Gordon Liddys first political raid on the Mansion in spring of '66. Presently, he does'nt acknowledge my birthday cards or phone calls to him.
I learned from observing Jack that I was not alone as a child in the miseries single parent and having a wild parent.
I can remember as a very young kid in the early 70’s like 72 or 73 is when I saw a bunch of hippies! My dad told me don’t go into a certain set of woods cause their were these dirty hippies in them! So of course I had to see fo myself! I went out a they built like the greatest tree forts and other little box buildings that were painted all these crazy colors! I just remembered talking to them and they were all so nice and happy! This was in Jackson Michigan! We ended up moving to New Yuck in 1977 but my short few years of going and hanging out with hippies in my youth was a very pleasant experience every single time! They never hurt me, or tried to get me to get them anything! They just talked about regular stuff! I remember one of them opened a seashell that contained a bunch of weed! So from then on till I knew better, I thought it came from the ocean! It was cool cause they let me be me! They answered any questions I had and they treated me like a kid brother only a cool kid brother! I had fond vivid memories of 20 something hippies being genuine and peaceful and fun and decent! I hope they all go to Heaven and I see them again when it’s my turn to be with the great Spirit in the sky!!!!! God bless everyone and happy days to all!!!!!!!!
I envy you. I wasn't alive during this time but I've grown up with hippies my whole life. True hippies are old souls with kind hearts. Thank you for sharing! God bless you
Right On! Thanks for sharing. Very COOL.
Yes
Lovely story Robert.
Yo Greeting From Southfield Michigan. My great grandparents and their kids visited my deceased aunt in Jackson in the 60s through 80s
Ah, the memories .. though I was in the (disciplined) Air Force at the time and didn't do anything stronger than a joint on occasion (which made me paranoid), I STILL maintain the the beautiful, peaceful, flower child mentality of my hippie life to this day and I'm about to turn 75.💕 ☮🌹🕊
kewl - that's a good mindset for Christ' healing 'hidden manna'
Stay chill, Linda!! From another boomer.....
@@fortybelow1973 ☮
I was born in 1964. Graduated in 1982. Best childhood ever! Best music and memories! My husband is 9 years older than me. I married a hippie! Nothing better!
You hit the sweet spot. Korean war only a memory. The draft to go to Vietman a lesson hard learned. Man on the moon. And graduated right into the information age. Sweeeeeet.
Me Too.
January of 64.
63/81! Best ever!🎉
Yes, best music ever. I grew up as part of the 80's hippie resurgence. It was a wonderful time meeting 60's icons like Paul Kantner, Abbie Hoffman, Tim Leary, Ram Dass, David Crosby, Marty Balin, Country Joe, etc as well as newer voices like Terrance McKenna. Protesting Ronnie Raygun and discovering who we were/are. I ended up marrying an older "hippie chick."
Born in 64 too.
Lucky enough to end up on grateful dead tour for ten years...
I don't recognize the america we live in today...
To me it's like we need another youth movement. The 60s was a time of rebels trying to break from norms of a restrictive society. The 20s could be a ballancing act. Now we are rude, selfish and always in search of a kick. Maybe we need to find a middleground between the 50s and 60s. And yes... bring back rock and roll.
Your right we need another resurgence.. we need to see that we are of the human race.. many cultures and many colours.. but we are all one race.
Hell yeah! I believe it's coming
Legalize LSD
Rock n Roll still exists ! It's what anyone with musical taste listens to !
@Djasko M we didn't kill civilians thats the government. we ARE the civilians
I'm so old, I do my protesting from home now. I yell at the T.V. a lot.
lol
Hey Ron , You too !! Im always hollering at the TV , I bet the neighbors think Im nuts ! Like what the heck is that old gal hollering about now? She must be cracked ! I love people with a good sense of humor !
ron davis so do I mate
Me too, @Ron Davis
Try yelling at your computer instead, it listens. (From another old one,)
THESE WERE THE BEST OF TIMES. MY mom turned me on to Janis Joplin, Led Zepplin and we all loved each other and looked out for one another. Peace and love was in the air. Rinse & repeat
I watched this on PBS in the early 90's. I wish all the episodes were still available, but unfortunately they are not. Thank you so much for posting this one. SO MEANINGFUL!
The Hippie was more than just “ sex, drugs and rock n roll”. It was a movement of “ rebels against society’s norm and cultural dogmas”.❤️
so why does the younger generation hate them now. Hippies were the *boomers*
UltraViolet Xrays When they turned into capitalistic mongers thanks to to the rise of corporate America and greed . Not all went that route but a huge number of them sold out , particularly to Wall Street and the techie-sand their evolution “ excess was hip”. I truly believe the expansion of wealth and “ super size “ which by the way disgusted me the thirty and forty something could not get enough and lived well beyond their means devouring everything in site and that included our natural resources with the onslaught of SUV’s . The environment from these upper mobile and politically ambitious generation that was the last thing on their mind , go figure ! And this was from a generation that fought with protests and inside movements to stop the war in Vietnam! Ironically my parents generation was just the opposite and I can hear them still say it was deplorable on their excesses ( the generation from the Great Depression they were the building blocks of our great society today ) . Sadly no one wants to acknowledge it was the their predecessors , my parents generation that lived within their means , excess was far from their proverbial plate , their carbon footprint print was less other than the rise of corporate America , if it wasn’t for them “ Silicon Valley or the so called upper mobile of the late 60’s would not of existed . Lol
" rebels against society’s norm and cultural dogmas" was the cover story, “ sex, drugs and rock n roll” was what they were after.
@@Jere616 Bollocks, where did you find rock and roll in Quetta, Pakistan, In Khandahar, Afghanistan, in New Delhi, in Old Delhi, it was just not happening, I know because I was there 76, 77 and 78, you are just talking rubbish that you read somewhere.
remember DO IT ?
We NEVER referred to ourselves as " hippies " .
To us that was a degrading term.
A made up name by the media for a thing they couldn't possibly understand.
We called ourselves " Heads " & " Freaks " .
Don't forget dopers...
That was the early days for sure. LOL.. I have vague recollections. LOL
Flower Child.
We didn’t call ourselves anything.we just came together because of music, drugs and love.
@@1okemes1 Amen to that one.
Born in 1953 has given me incredible sight & hearing to know what I am seeing and listening to over the past 3 years is total B.S. Another fantastic documentary worthy of sharing with everyone I know. THANK YOU DAVID!
The difference between the 60s and today is that today both sides are gassed up with seething hatred for one another and it is ALL politically and ideologically motivated. Hippies were just off-the-grid types who wanted a more peaceful and charitable existence; it was the political radicals among the New Left that gave the hippie movement a bad rap, and the Manson "family" wound up destroying both. Today is just naked and unapologetic political radicalism with no "peace/love/dove" to be found anywhere. What's going on is in fact complete B.S., but the arrogance of youth will refuse to admit it. It's as much a religion as religion is, and that's the one point they refuse to concede. At some point it'll burn out, but it will likely take some heinous act by the next Charles Manson to finally rip the megaphone from the hands of the political and cultural radicals.
What perplexes me is that since the 60s we've gone full circle -- from the Free Speech movement to the Suppressed Speech movement, at a time when social media should be free speech's best friend. Just shows our young folks don't know their history, and that's largely because it hasn't been taught in our public schools nor our universities; it's been replaced by this dogged attempt to RE-WRITE history or erase it altogether and replace it with one-sided dogma. At least the Hippie movement promoted peace and tolerance; all their heirs are promoting in the 2020s is "Burn this mothafucka down!" Their answer to everything: Destroy. Not build, _destroy._ Tear it down to the foundation. Today's young aren't "progressive" at all. They're _revolutionaries,_ trying to resurrect Leninism/Maoism on the left _or_ fascism on the right, via a trumped-up, contrived culture war. If Boomers are guilty of anything it's breeding the current crop of leaders, who haven't the first clue about civics and are bound and determined to ensure _their_ children are just as ignorant as they are.
Me too...1951 born
The past three years have destroyed all the progress made in the last six decades.
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I’m 13 years old, and i’ve always been so fascinated by this hippie lifestyle. i’ve told my parents about how i’ve always wanted to be a hippie and they just laugh at me. i wasn’t alive then, but the 60s and 70s seem so amazing, there were rough patches, but that’s where the hippies came from. my grandfather always tells me stories about when he was a hippie and it just sounds amazing, the people and everything sounded amazing. a hippie lifestyle is 100% a lifestyle i want to live someday.
i'm 12-years-old. and when i tell people that i aspire to be a hippie when i am older in todays society, they just laugh at me as well. it really saddens me. it saddens me how hippies are perceived as "kooks" to most. when in reality they are just utterly misunderstood. the 60s - 70s were indeed, particularly fascinating eras, of which i have always wanted to live during, to experience, and embrace the hippie lifestyle. it seemed so beautiful to live the hippie lifestyle back then, and i really hope society revives them one day.
I don't like the drug escene ,beyond that its okay
Your grandfather is BSing you, son. The hippies were dirty, drug-taking, slobs. Over the years, fiction has lionized these creeps. Your grandfather should be ashamed of himself.
I was a little girl during that time, so I didn't "experience" the 60s, and could totally relate to wishing I'd been a hippie - until the U.S. invaded Iraq, and then I took back what I said! The 60s WERE an amazing time, but even as a sheltered child, I got glimpses of the dark side. I remember a couple of older (middle school) girls whispering about a classmate who'd poured a bottle of Coca Cola into her body for reasons I didn't entirely comprehend, but it filled me with dread. I remember Walter Cronkite reporting each evening how many soldiers had died that day in "Phnom Pen," and how the draft hung over the country like tornado season: it could suck away your cousin or a family friend without warning.
My friend C, who's a decade older than me, felt guilty for years about all the arguments she'd had with an older family member before he died. And then the show "Mad Men" came out, and she had an epiphany about why she'd been so angry and why she had a right to be. Girls were (in general) like pets who had to be trained, and women were like children who couldn't be trusted to have their own bank accounts - or opinions - at least in the segment of society where I grew up. The times I've dated men a decade older than me - even now, in middle age - I've been reminded, "Oh, yeah, they grew up believing women were created to serve them." Disabled people were isolated from society, Black people were treated like cattle, Black and Native women were sterilized without their knowledge, the mentally ill were shackled in horrific institutions. I mean, I know it's still bad (and getting worse), but back then it was REALLY bad.
But hey, man, that's a heavy trip to lay on you groovy chicklets. ; ) I dig where you're coming from. I dig. Are we copacetic?
I feel like we have a better foundation now on which to build the Age of Aquarius the hippies envisioned, but the challenges have grown bigger, too. Don't miss the history we're living right now, because 50 years on, the younger generation may be wishing they were alive to see this.
We had Vision and Purpose. That's enlivening.
If I could go back in time to visit an era it'd absolutely be the 60s, I'd just love to experience the counter culture of that time
60s all the way! I’d be smoking more grass and dancing in the love-ins in the parks! The counter culture of the time was a sharp contrast to the clean-cut and rigid society of the 1950s,when you had to fit in,conform to the max,follow the straight and narrow perfectly.I have long hair myself and would keep growing it long if I took a time machine back to 1968-1969.1967 was the Summer Of Love and 1969 was Woodstock.
Cough Manson Family cough
Me to but I’m black
With all the protest happening?
I loved the 60's,other than the riots and protests
I never did the drug scene, but people were nice, we accepted each other the way we were. We looked for a simple life style, back to the simple living, we soul searched. I was no hippy but i do have good memories. Love was in the air!
Correct
1970
Judge person by character not color of skin 👍
Love was in the air and the sweet smell of mary jane
@@ginajones2328 and who knows who...🎶
That's why the govt conveniently provided a backlash bc they were rejecting all the bs of being under their control.
thanks---i first took a drink of alcohol at age 12 because I thought 'it would 'make me a man' in 1979, then pot and then became an LSD addict in the early 80s. i didn't understand much then but believed in the cause of the 60s movements. my damage to myself in my teens has taken a lifetime to repair, and it seems i had to go through it all in order to see that we are just human, or at least most of us. it didn't have to be the way it has been, and i've no question an evil entity appeared in the world about 4000 years ago. this is a very experimental planet genetically.
I remember when this documentary was broadcast in SF. The whole city shut down and watched it over several nights in bars, and talked about it. Such a great document. One of David’s better ones. Thank God he’s posting all this on CZcams. His is one of that most important channels on here. How the future sees this time, will be how David presented it here. What a document!
Thank you so much.
David Hoffman filmmaker
There was one thing we had in the 60s that doesn’t exist today. We had our issues with each other at times but we had an underlying trust in one another that is gone today. We truly did try to love one another. We didn’t care what religion, sexual preference, color, nationality, etc you were. We wanted to break down all those barriers. We failed but we tried. In fact, it was all gone by the 80s.. never to return.
Sadly a lot of the baby boomers are not MAGA people, and extreme conservative. It is a very dissapointing generation. I like the current youth better.
You didn't really fail. Speaking as an early GenXer, the 1980s may have been a conservative reaction, but its not like we wanted the 1950s back. X was anti-segregation and was for women in high-paid high prestige careers and leadership positions. The 90s were more socially liberal than the 80s. Sexual harassment taken that much more seriously (even if not like today), people really starting to open up to LGBs (again, not completely but was moving in the enlightened direction). Sadly, the T part had to wait until the 2000s, and even today it's still a battle - and even for LGBs too.
We're still here. Die hards shaking our heads.
Yes. We are still here. Being a hippie is a state of mind. ☮️ ✌️
@@Numb217 Reefer Madness !
My mom was a pot smoking rock and roll mustang driving hippy and I'm a product of the 60's and the one most greatest thing about being born in the 60's you got to grow up in the 80's !!!! Thank you mom from the bottom of my heart !!!
Teresa Laubinger I completely agree love the 80’s
Absolutely, 60's child here & I could not agree more. Just amazing what happened in the 1980's
the '80's sucked
I was born in the 60’s and grew up in the 70’s, now those were the days!!
Bla bla bla....how intelligent you must be. Pfff.
I moved to SF and North California in 1967. I learned about meditation, yoga, healthy food, the essence of many religions and the essence of the Gospels, ‘God is love’. I also partied with marijuana.Later, I became an RN and I witnessed therapeutic use of marijuana for many symptoms. The 1960’s hippie movement helped introduce realistic and frank discusiion about death. We are all born to die. Thank God I was a hippie during my time on Earth.
I was 7 years old when the Beatles came to Montreal early in their world tour in 1964. My mom and i SAW (NOT heard) the Fab 4. The girls screamed nonstop, the amplifiers were weak by today's standards, etc. We only heard the first few bars of each song. Our ears rang and whistled for hours afterward
I was born in 1960, the youngest of four, my two older brothers had all the best records and I loved the music. Everybody had long hair and smoked weed and wore jeans and headbands. Even in our little town right outside New Orleans, it was glorious for a kid having all these new influences. I can remember my dad yelling at hippies running in front of his car in the Quarter and getting really pissed if he saw a white girl with a black man. It was such a crazy juxtaposition between the '50's and the '60's, it really was a cultural revolution. It really was a shock for my parents who married in the 50's and there were plenty of arguments about my brother needing to cut their hair and you better not be smoking that marijuana!
I'm 18 and I find myself occasionally wondering what my life would be like if I was born in 1950, just vulnerable enough to be under the complete influence of the late 60's. I understand that we are probably looking at this era through rose-tinted glasses, and that the hippy lifestyle was clouded with pseudointellectuals and kids who just wanted to shirk responsibility. However, this era was truly ahead of its time when it came to addressing topics such as existentialism, authenticity, eastern philosophy, finding your Dharma (Bliss), how to create your meaning and purpose, how to be grateful for what you have and not need to compare yourself to others, etc.
These topics are finding their way into the hearts of young people again via my generation (Gen Z) because of how much of an uncertain environment we are currently growing up in right now. The things that helped our parents thrive aren't helping us thrive. The things that gave our parents meaning aren't giving us meaning. Our parent's route to "success" is not our route to "success" (however you want to define success).
Does this call for another hippy movement? I don't know. What I do know is who I want to surround myself with, and that's with open-minded groovy people like those in this video.
Holy shit man im cooked and that was just beautiful. Cheers
i’m also 18 and agree with you completely. i feel asif something will happen soon. our generation will make a change, i hope we do. you seem really cool i hope to meet many people like you in this life
Hey I'm also 18, really interesting read here I appreciated hearing your perspective especially of our generation and you're exactly right, happiness is subjective, success is how we define it. Maybe another hippie movement is in order or maybe we as people can learn from what they did (or already have) and can implement what we need so our lives don't end up unfulfilled.
I disagree. Completely. Im 30. People have always freed their mind, used alcohol, opium and weed ECT. Nothing new. It just being openly on TV or talked about was a no no . Y'all may think you are a part of a new open minded movement but you are not, you are being manipulated by Marxists to cause chaos, violence, overwhelmed all the systems, pit class against class, race against race, and now they are trying to trigger a global flip to socialism.
timechanges everybody I’m quite aware that people have always used substances for a long time, I never believed it was anything new. Also I feel a lot of what you have outlined in your comment is not entirely relevant to those previous, my interpretation was that we are discussing about how education comes in many forms and not just the traditional and that general happiness may not be a simple find and this search should be more important than the stereotypical form of success. You discussing this global flip to socialism sounds a conspiracy theory if anything. Also, I don’t think people trying to stop racism (or what may appear to be racism) has anything to do with Marxists or socialism, it is simply allowing someone to have basic human rights and the reason for any violence is because peaceful protests (at least in America) have had little impact otherwise this issue may have been resolved or quite substantially bettered years ago. Although in saying that I do not endorse people’s manipulation of the problem with police brutality to get a new Gucci belt.
I'm glad I was a teenager in the 60's. What a wonderful time to grow up in. That is until 1969 when I graduated from HS and joined the USMC just after HS. Knew I'd end up in Vietnam and so it was. Just knew I'd die in Vietnam, but God had another plan for my life.
Glad you made it home. Thank you for your service.
What do you think about the war in Vietnam? Was it justified?
No it was Not so many deaths so many with PTSD did it change that country no it just destroyed it please Lord can’t we all just Love one another ❤
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By the time I was out of high school, all the guys who had gone before me that I knew had gone on to Viet Nam already. There was a "recession" going on at the time that had me spending most of my 1st yr as a grad going out & interviewing for jobs, to the point where I was just abt ready to enlist w/the Navy to get out of my parent's house. And what was left of those older guys I knew, one by one, stopped me for a pvt chat here & there to try and talk me out of enlisting. I still thank them today.
Welcome home 🥹💞
Pretty amazing stuff. I was born in 1970. My mom was 16. I was born in her bedroom. No one knew she was pregnant. Looking back it seemed like a crazy time that might not solve itself, so why have a child then (obviously no choice) ? When society is collapsing? But...these guys had actual ideas and morals. Unlike today. Everyone seems vapid and entitled. That's no way to go though life...We have all the info anyone might need in a second, yet we're all pretty stupid. Has not helped.
I do have to agree with you, information, in a second, but flooded themelves their net pages with scrolling game links, almost TRAINED ADHD. Then, the information verification validity, I blame on the cruel game of "the devil's politics." "Freedom" ie no regulation has driven the world's kids nuts, no wonder they just want to scroll on games. Sixty Minutes CBS did a show a few years back how Silicon Valley set smart devices up to intentionally scroll down to get ad revenue, which affects attention span. Their brains have been rewired. We didn't have to deal with that demon BACK IN THE DAY unless you did the dope.
This is the kind of crap we had to deal with back then. Its also exactly why we rebelled against our father's generation, and their idea that war is the only solution. We had the best music ever, it came from everywhere, so much TALENT in such a short era.
Very well said; I totally agree!
With some “enhancements” to make the musicians so much better.
@@juanamora9513WAR is HELL, both my son and dad are Purple Heart combat vets, have you served? Probably not.
I was 10 when the Beatles came out and it was love. Got a transistor radio for Christmas and thought it was the best present ever. Even went to concerts. So glad I grew up in that era. We had the gr veatest music concerts and social changes but we were always about peace love equality and making things better. These days we all need a refresher course. 💙✌️💙✌️
Are you sure "our father's generation, and their idea that war is the only solution" ? Wow! That's quiet a statement...
@@KittyGrizGriz I'm from a military family.
I'm 25 but ever since I was a kid I've been fascinated with the counterculture of the 60's. I'm still heavily into the music and it's like I miss a time I never experienced. Thanks for the video.
Teddy Jones I wonder if you are reincarnated from that time.
@@sidilicious11 That'd be pretty cool. I've wondered the same thing (though not sure if that's possible)
Teddy Jones What’s up man. 25 as well, love all the music, love the politics, love everything about the 60s and 70s vibe. Back in college I would chill with some professors and some of the best bit of advice I ever got was “you’re alive now for a reason”. Find your reason man!
The hippies just started it all... right now it is the most important time it’s not to late that’s just what they want you to think. Stand up and the reason why you resonate with it so much is cause it’s important and it still is now more than ever actually
I completely understand where your coming from.. I've always had a pull to the 60's era. I've always felt like I belonged to that generation.
What I don’t understand is why many of this generation which once believed in loving everybody and nature are now presenting intolerance, greed, and willful ignorance - your stereotype of boomers. What happened??
Edd VCR Great point and great question!
If ya can't beat 'em, join 'em. Hippies became yuppies.
I think Don Henley said it best in "Boys of Summer" - "Out on the road today I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac".
Nearly everyone sells out, it's just a matter of when.
Good questions.
Maybe it's a sign that still want to dominate society, even if it's in a very negative way and their cultural relevancy is wearing off. Many boomers seemed to have gotten their way their whole lives (with the help of their parents, the better economy back then, etc). So when the newer generations try to take the stage, the BBs come in and shut them down. It's like the jealous oldest sibling who hoards their toys and won't share them with their younger, more needier siblings. Or worse throws the toys with the intention to hurt them.
Of course, there are some BBs who are nice enough to share and play, and who recognize that their generation has made problems that will impact future citizens after their deaths.
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Gee, not a single young person staring glumly into their phone and ignoring the world around him or her. A better time IMHO.
WOW !!! Im 70 now , and I lived everything in this video !!!"PEACE MAN " !!!
This is the generation from which I was born... I care and respect them all. (for the most part. :-) ) Working at a rest stop on the highway one summer, I served coffee and snacks to a bus full of hippies. Every other one of them came up a penny or a nickel short on their bill. "No problem!" I told them with a smile and tossed in the loose change from my pocket to keep the cash register even. "Wow! Thanks..." each one of them said with a smile. I smiled and nodded back to them. Finally, at the end of the line, came their leader... He looked me over closely then smiled and nodded his head, he took off one of his beaded bracelets and wrapped it around my wrist, then he shook my hand and told me "You're alright... You're one of us now!" My eyes opened wide and I smiled brightly to them as they began to file away, "Hey, guys! Thanks! ---You travel safely." :-) Best customers I had all summer!
Do you still have the beads?
Great story bro, one of good will
CaliforniaCarpenter7 you are a insult to the word California
The best customers are the ones who can actually pay their tab. It's cool how you had buy their respect though.
Hippies are great just don’t let them administer anything, specially your country 😉
My first experience with hippies was when I was a little girl in the late 60s, early 70s....there were a few in our town, I remember one girl who had long flowing hair and wore a floppy hat sometimes....she was always barefoot, she'd sit on the steps of our Main Street ice cream shop, playing her guitar. We 'd drive by and my mom would say "hippy" like it was a bad word. I was fascinated, and knew just what I wanted to be when I "grew up"!
So what did you become when you grew up?
@Ax Martel lol
A bum?
@@CaliforniaCarpenter7 oh wow
Chainsaw Kitten Aww, I think thats really cute. I bet if i grew up in that time, Id probably want to be a hippy too. Theres something so fascinating about them...idk if its the way they dressed, and carried themselves, or if its just the fact that its so admirable that people could feel so strongly and fight so passionately for something they truly believe in. And in my opinion, that was a hippy. The cool thing about them, is not so much the drugs, and a reckless way of living, however, they did seem to live freely, but their beliefs and how that was a generation that you can honestly say was a group of the most non complacent ppl out there. Yes, maybe they did rebel at times...but theyd make a stand. I think that matters a lot. They wanted peace and they would fight for it.
I'm an old hippie and it was a great time to be alive 💯
I was an ex-military vet when I started college in '69. I formed a bond with many kids slightly younger than myself. I took a shine to one young lady who taught me how to be a hippie. We broke up after 3 1/2 years and I kept my "hippie ways" for many decades. We went our separate ways, and I think of our days together very often, though I'm married with grandkids at 77 years old.
I can barely watch this as I am extremely jealous that I wasnt around then.
Well. I was and I would gladly swap my 68 year's old for your 22.,....
CLC 3111 wow. You really don’t know your history do you?.. I wouldn’t wanna live back then, but to say they did nothing is wrong and uneducated.. to say the least
CLC 3111 pretty much everything we take for granted, not during a quarantine, is thanks to them. Life before these people was a completely different world. If you don’t know, just look at what life was like before them. Pretty night and day. Do you remember what happened in 99 when they tried Woodstock 2? Turned into a shit show.. read a history book pal.. or not, I don’t care
@@clc-gl4jn I dont believe you were around or studied the history or you would see all the positive changes we brought to mainstream society. It was the best period in history to be young for sure.
CLC 3111 they were a really big part of the civil rights movement which i think is really cool. You may not have liked the way they lived or acted or the music they listened to but you can't deny they were the turning point for society. Yes things started to get chaotic and out of control as most things get when people aren't in a controlled environment doing things they aren't supposed to do lol but in the beginning it was all peace and love. They were a generation of kids showing the general public these weird walls that society had built up, the whole "leave it beaver" lifestyle isn't what you should feel obligated to settle for and life is more than what your parents and society at the time were telling them it should be. Everything has its pros and cons and i think this was just a generation of kids a who were just trying to find themselves and the meaning of life because at the end of the day the knew it wasn't a 9-5 job till retirement.
My mother was a hippy and my father was a yippy. They were the most unlikely match but they were married until my dad's death in 2003.
And you are a sippy 😂
Your a drippy.
@@seththomas9105 you are a shitty lol !
Can you explain the difference between the two please?
@@Solaaaaa My impression of yippies over a hippies is purpose, activism and education. My father was an active member of the civil rights movement and anti-war movement on campus and across the state of New Hampshire. He was pursuing a graduate degree from FP University. My mother was younger, left her home before she completed high school and hitchhiked all across the country. Her life at the time was all about living in the moment. They were very different people all my life but loved each other dearly.
I was only 12 yo in ‘67 so I was on the cusp of being influenced by the then contemporary generation. I loved my newfound clothes, my taste in music was evolving, television shows were being aimed at the ‘60s young people. I came of age in the ‘70s though. I thought most everything was different from the ‘60s. I felt a cooler vibe. Intelligence mattered. Conformity, even in peer groups, didn’t take ahold of kids. I loved even longer hair. I never did acid because of a certain propaganda film, but I did start using weed, mescaline and shrooms - all natural from the land, not created in a lab. Anyway, my impression of the ‘60s, in some respects, is that it was so far behind me in the ‘70s, that it seemed awkwardly different to who I had become. ✌🏼
Hey guys! Circa 1991 here lol, I live as a new-age hippie. Me and my old man bought an ‘97 RV during the pandemic and have been moving around living in it ever since. My mother always called me her flower child, I grew up on Fleetwood and Crosby Stills and Nash… I wear dresses all summer and live as a free-spirit. Being a Pisces definitely gave me an edge too 😉
So no matter what your age, Live life and spread love, cause as we know, its gone before you know it. 🕊️
who's watching this 2019? peace and love to all
You dumb fuck. How do you think you get peace and love hey? By protecting YOUR people, and HATING those who threaten what you LOVE. DO YOU GET IT NOW SHIT FOR BRAINS?!?!?!
@@jamiecripps7541 sorry brother, but you are now part of the problem in today's society.
@@jamiecripps7541 you're the dumb fuck, you fascist swine.
the truth and love to you from me
ME ! I was born in 1953, so I LIVED those days in this film !
I'm 67 now an ageing hippy, great time's. I still believe in the hippy idea, love, peace, I think we did change the world.
terry parker lol, no you didn't,unless you mean changed the world for the worse, just look how horrible it is now, absolutely no positive effects what so ever... absolutely nothing positive came from the 60s from hippies to war Hawks, just unknowing sell outs, who achieved supreme degeneracy. Now your grandkids are suffering and you'd rather invite more immigrants in to prove how kind you are
You guys did change the world :). The hippie mindset is still very strong today
I'm 68 and we were lost as geese. Terrible time in USA.
Smellmore, 'captain of the idiots.'
Johhny K Do you think that was the fault of a Hippy attitude?
As opposed to what that Hippy attitude is repulsed by.
Mate what kind of a mentality encourages an offshore job economy, business people, cut throat dog eat capitalism.
There's no social values in that. True Neo-Liberals, as the movers and shakers have been called, are not Hippy's, if some once where, they ceased to be at whatever point. A lot of original Hippys betrayed the way they where, others simply found it too hard to maintain. Some managed to keep their values intact throughout the changes and pressures and have managed to keep the basic attitude of goodwill, others only partially. Life, over years, swallows ones youthful hopes and desires, the way the world has been going for not houndreds but thousands of years eats away at a person. Today we are in a new situation that is brewing another reaction, much like it did in the early mid sixties. The population is far higher now and the ecological situation becoming increasingly pronounced. The social issues are more or less the same as usual, utter neglect from the political sphere to deal with and address the needs of people, all the while saying what people want and hope for - that's simply tongue wagging.
The 1960's Hippy thing was a very down to earth movement, children, family's, music and creativity and very much about local produce and economy.
Sounds like your trying to bag every babyboomer into a single story. That's not how life is, there where a range of agenda's and certainly a polarised one.
So the grievances are real, however the resentments are misdirected, that stuff you're angry about is the result of a chaotic market force dominating society, driven by people who see the world as a market. A 'free' market I believe they like to call it. This so called free market has proven to have little to do with personal Freedom and has been part of the nasty repression of any kind of freedom for genuine community's to develope and work together for common good. When I say community's I mean whatever those community's cultural preferences and style are, be they alternative or straight and conservative.
These world as a marketplace mentality's have treated the world not as a planetary ecology first and foremost and not a society of human communitys before it's a free competitive economic market.
The hopes and desires of the 1960's were brutalized and then humiliated out of vogue. However it did free up culture - personal expression so you could dress the way you liked and choose to be a bit more how you felt to be on a vert peresonal level. That however still has a way to go with all the bullying and trolling that happens.
David is an excellent film maker and documentary maker. I remember, watching this on TV, back in the early 90's . Was such an honor to meet the guy who did this. I have mixed feelings about my generation. How did so many go from wanting to change the world, to wanting to buy it? The drug scene got a lot worse. I avoided the drugs until March 79. An yes, the weed did lead to harder drugs. I do know a few that just stayed with weed. I have come to realize that it's okay to chase the illusive dream, while caring about the planet and humanity. I was raised in a Military family, so you can imagine the conflicts. We were having Love In's from 85 to 93, in Griffith Park . Far Out. I can greatly relate to this. A great Documentary. In 15 years, I took around 400 lsd trips. It did open my mind and made me aware of many things. Wouldn't recommend it. Might be leading to my memory getting worse now.
Notice almost none of us were overweight.
The best music ever was created in this era, with creativity flowing from all sides. The same can't be said about current times.
Only because of your limited frame of reference,great music is,has and will continue to be made in every era.Expand your horizon,it is not painful to see beyond the impediments you have in place.
That is a lot of truth to what you are saying. But the 70's follow really strongly after (think about all the soul, Marvin Gay's whats going on, All Green the list goes on and on) then even the 80´s and 90's came with a lot of great stuff.
Because marijuana was replaced by opiods in music scene.
There is still great music these days.. Not talking about the mainstream ones.. You just need to find them..
True
I'm a 72 year old (British) "Hippie" ! I grew up a 'Mod', high fashion and moved on to Marraige & Kid's as "Hippies" became fashionable..... NO, I DIDN'T GET IT !!!!! Some 5 year's later, a broken marraige & my own business, I got into drug's, sex & booze. I'd alway's been into good music. First, the Blue's, then the Stone's, West Coast, etc. In my late 20's I married again and "lived the Hippie Dream" although I had a house, mortgage & factory job ! We had a big garden, grew Orgainic Veg. Cycled everywhere, didn't have a car or TV. Had a greaat collection of music & and a good stereo.... Unfortunatly that ended and I 'got lost in the wilderness'. Now I'm in my 70's and living on my own, yet again. Have a small cottage & garden. An Electric bike (no car) but I do have a TV & Computer. I'm SO GLAD I visited the "Hippie" life style. I guess it's alway's been in me and now I'm free to 'enjoy' aspect's of life I would never of contemplated, had I stayed 'straight' all my life....
Cheers Face, lots of us got lost along the way.
I'm content to live a quiet life in my little apartment
With my music and memories to keep me company. I still can't handle tv though.
@@msc5538 If you live in the USA, I can fully understand that. { I still can't handle tv though.}. What you listening to now ?????
you are so cool!!
Thank you Mr. Owsley. LSD is something to be grateful for always. John F. Kennedy high school was astonishing looking at the experience now, fifty years on. Jimi Hendrix (John Allen Hendrix) set his guitar ablaze at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. It was so cool to have all 4 television stations talking about the same thing and not showing us pictures of villages burning in Vietnam. Terrifying and interesting for a 10 year old preparing for middle school. Got 'Are You Experienced' as soon as it was at Montgomery Ward department store. Changed outlook after listening to it.
One thing that was never mentioned in this great segment has had a lasting legacy. It was a two-word maxim which changed our lives then and forever: "QUESTION AUTHORITY!" So simple, but so profound. I still live by it daily.
and now Boomers are the authority and hoarded stole growth through credit from own children
These are the kinds of videos that help me with depression they make you appreciate life itself.
Older generations were scarred by war and depression, and then given the chance to earn every dollar they worked for in the post-war prosperity. I think what defined the generation gap was that the older generations favored security over happiness... or conflated the two as the same word. To trade away your freedom in a mind numbing job that pays well was okay because it brought you security, compared to how 30 to 40 years before those jobs weren't common and everyone was standing in soup lines and doing menial labor to survive.
Hard times can mold people to invest all their thought in rigid, righteous beliefs that justify daily suffering. Whether this be Evangelism, the American dollar, Corporate America, the white picket fence, being proper and cleanly, etc. However, most of these children who benefitted from the prosperity they grew up in didn't understand why their parents were so rigid and unable to consider anything else besides working hard, going to church, and buying things. They had taken that for granted, and wanted something much more... the ability to use imagination and thought, to be free in every aspect of their lives, because what good is financial security if you aren't free and happy because of it?
I was searching for such a comment. Thank you!
We had so much in common and even now in our 70s and 80s we still have the same things in common- books- music- culture- politics- nature- respect- peace and love
I agree, but many people in my grandparents' generation got to work a square 40-hour work week and have what they needed and be very secure. Less so for my parents, who are Boomers, but still way better than the generations since.
Great analysis. I agree...
Simply put, that's exactly it!
“Uncertainty was not something parents wanted to hear from their children…” Beautifully put.
I got chills seeing the clip of Ed Sullivan again. Thank you for the coherent analysis! Every part of this film and description text is accurate (although no personal knowledge of drugs). It's interesting to see how that period has influenced generations. Hopefully the internet hasn't killed all the loving intentions.
As a highscool graduate in 1964, I was right at the beginning of the counter culture. Now an aging hippie, I'll remember those years forever in my ❤
i cant think of a better time to grow up.
@@jamescampbell8845 Me too.
Nope bet you weren't a Hippy!!! They lived in the Communes!!! Just cause we had all the music and protests didn't make one a Hippy
Oh, yeah! I always love citing George Carlin, "The Sixties were good me (you)" I AM PROUD TO BE A HIPPIE.
It was so exciting to be a part of that generation! (born in '49). I was penniless but so privileged. Also, I was able to live comfortably in every major city for only $10-$20/wk. Every day was an adventure! And so cool to see Oliver Stone in the last few frames!
It took off in the 70's and never stopped. In the 50's and the 60's hearing wild music and getting drunk was a bit "off" and now it isn't.
I saw a Timothy Leary lecture at Santa Clara University in the 80's. He was pushing personal computers, he even said that in the future we were going to meet and court our future spouses on it, which seemed silly to me at the time.
During the q and a portion, the only thing people asked him about was his activism and drug use. One person asked how old he was when he took LSD. He replied, "40, so there is still hope for your parents!"
being a hippie is an attitude of do no harm...walk lightly on the earth...67 was the summer of love and I was there in fact I'm still in the sf bay area but I'm not 16 years old now. yes those were amazing times.
Can you tell me a story from back then i would love to live these moments wow...
And now SF is a cesspool filled with classism, racism, and gentrification. Its sad because I love SF but after living there for a couple of years, it got worse and worse. Trash and feces on the streets along with used heroin needles, college students forced to be homeless in their cars because they cant afford rent. Housing Segregation and discrimination up the wazoo. Its full of fake liberals who act like they are “cool hippies” but are some of the most elitist people in the country :/
Dont even get me started on the hookup culture and how people are pressured into having orgies/engaging in poly relationships because its seen and the “cool new trend”. People rarely form healthy or meaningful relationships in that city since 80% of people are transients and leave after like 2 or 3 years. No sense of community and all of this is spilling over into oakland, Berkeley, and even areas like Seattle, Portland, and Atlanta.
@@Confettifun --You can blame Nancy Pelosi for that mess.
1967, you were there, amazing times, beautiful..
@@Confettifun you talking like this thing didn't existed before or this are new thing Ppl were always like that even before you was born things change and it takes time
An Anti social media rebellion. A bunch of
Kids going no phone or social media! this would be a cool trend. Make it cool to not have social media. This could shift things. Live like the old days. They want us to all see the same things and think the same! This was so cool to watch.
It's impossible and that would be quite boring to be honest. I mean it's because of social media that we are capable of watching this documentary for free of cost on internet. Social media is kind of revolution in itself and it will never stop.
@@bendover-bz4bc And social media promotes depression and anger nowadays. Modern social media is start of a degradation of humans as social beings. We act as if we become more socially active by using social medias while in reality we are just stuck in our own minds looking at codes that are generated through a programming software. We act as if we fight for justice in social medias while in reality we killed our humanity by hating others, cancelling others, shaming people who were once bad but now wants to change. Social media becomes a place for pussies who isn't brave enough to show their faces to the real world to bark all day long to other people. Yes it is a revolution, a revolution to slowly kill our mind.
I'd like that very much, problem is, social Media is engrained like a additional organ into our bodies. We literally can't cut it out without cutting ourselves completely out of society. That's how dependent Big Tech has made us. And we idiots cheered it on.
im 15 and been off social media for 4 1/2 months
Do y’all truly not see the hypocrisy of ranting against social media on CZcams - a social media platform??
I was a 60's hippie and it was marvelous! ☮️
Me too. I STILL am a hippie. I’m 73
Born in 1959 I was too young for most of the hippie phenomenon. Fortunately, I was also exempt from
the draft and Vietnam service. As a kid, it was a confusing time.
The 60's and 70's were the best of times. I really miss those days. No internet, good weed. ✌
Crazy time too! Crazy music and drugs. Revolutions and civil rights and threat of nuclear war christ it sounds exhilarating
Better weed nowadays
Weed is better now
Weed cheaper by far then.
I'm 67 and still smoke pot, to control my anxiety every time I hear dumbity-trumpity speak.
Basically, it seems like where I live - Pakistan - it is in your 50’s. Rules. Norms. Everywhere. We need hippies here too to break the rules and go against these fascist norms.
Mann we were busy gettin freedom.so unfair missed a revolution completely lol
No, better choose to abide islam. That's best for you.
Bro Zubair, for us (and for all) Islam is the best revolution for all times.... To understand this, we must research the real Islam in holy Quran.
@Jebidiah McKool , yes , I m sure you have people's best interest at heart...
@Jebidiah McKool Yup bro I think I've got your point.. I was talking about REAL Islam. It's never related with sufi, neither any imam telling us the stories. To know Islam, we must read Quran directly. And then we can easily know that basically Islam is a SYSTEM.
Sorry my English is not good, but I hope I have conveyed a message. :)
I was born to late to witness this but, growing up in the 90’s I spent it trying to emulate these values. In the 2000’s there was a kind of resurgence and I spent a year living in the woods of Golden Gate Park. The values of love and community are essential for our survival. By time I found any semblance of this movement it was spent with heroin addicts and meth heads unfortunately. I wish this would come back minus all the drugs.
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16:15 Rebels Without A Cause
17:49 Happy As A Goal Within Themselves
18:00 Free Love
18:59 Counter Culture
20:12 LSD
21:04 LSD Personality Has Not Changed
23:04 Horrible Example
24:34 Woodstock
25:34 Mass Media
25:40 Downfall Of Human Gatherer Concepts
The conversations happening between people who lived during that time in the comments is my favorite part! I’m 23 and a girl lmao. My grandparents raised me off their 50’s 60’s and 70’s music! So I’m literally obsessed with days like these, minus the bullshit people had to go through.
You're absolutely right..... good evening how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's a lovely day that the lord has made
I love the little remnants of this era that have been left in our society. I feel it all of the time, I’ve felt it and desired to be a part of the “hippie movement” since before I was a teen. Today’s culture and society of extreme materialism, useless technology, and consumerism is saddening and so far from how our lives should be as human beings. People don’t even know who they are or what they’re doing on this Earth.
yep
Joel Decoster this decade is birthed out of that mess in the 60’s
@@judyweerstra9164 It's actually not.
Stoicism is all we need
_>Today’s culture and society of extreme materialism, useless technology, and consumerism_
That's a direct consequence of hippies hedonism and rejection of tradition.
I was born in 74, you see- but I have always been into the 60’s music and everything about it. This is a great documentary. Thank you for sharing
For the most part, peace and love were many times piece and lust. There were the real hippies of the mid-60s that flowed into creating Brady Bunch Bell Bottom trendy hippies through the late 60s and early 70s. So funny that nearly all of us went from hating, "The Man" to being, "The Man." Every generation blames the previous generations for their troubles. Being promiscuous, alcohol and drugs were our problems. I lost friends to the latter two. It was tragic at times and it was wonderful at times, just like every generation before and after. Just listen to the music. The music says it all.
Blows my mind that Alcohol is legal but MJ is the “devils lettuce” 🤣.
I'd love to start a revolution like this today. we definitely need more love in our lives. I'm 25 but I get what they where doing and man does it speak volumes. hope we can love again ✌️
Likly you thought you got what they were doing. But really you do not see the reality about how the video was media and part of the mainstream media shafting and railroading. Hippies weren't even proper counter-culture. Hippies were the drugged stoned societal flotsan which the counter culture and Marxist radicles shepered to and throw for their own political objectives. Love and sex are not banned substances in the twenty-twenties. It is going on all the time. But for you and your revolutionary ideas the reality may be passing you by. So maybe you need to ask your self why. Why would the good things in life pass your pro-drop-out types behind. We have hundreds or thousands of crusty drop-out types sat on the walls or steps just barly conscious through their excessive drug abuse. So the world passes them by because that is what they want. They want to vanish in to their booze, to receed from society. So that is why you most likly missed the reality of sex and free love.
I wish my daughters generation would drop the crazy ideas they are so confused about. They are all sad and depressed. I feel sad for them. You can only be young once. I wish something amazing like this would happen for them. My mama was a hippie❤
It’ll happen this year .
Gosh now I know why my father was so furious that when I was about 4, I told him I just wanted to be happy. He got really mad and told me money was more important. I never understood why he would say that.
I bet you do now!
@@joeanthony7759 You bet I now do what? I still think happiness is important. And I’m extra happy with a roof over my head. Call me spoiled but I like electricity and water too. Having extra money would make me happy in so much that I would stop having to worry about being homeless
@@kellykerr5225 no it wouldn't, more money creates more problems you make in your bubble. Being rich means being content and using your gifts into potential. What your talking about is materialistic ideas. Which your dad is right about for the average person. No one truly cares about "Happiness" but rather filling up there own ego.
This brings back so many happy memories..........I was in college at UT Austin.....64-68 and did all this.....sex, drugs and rock and roll and marching against the VN War and for Civil Rights.......we were rebels and we had a Cause, Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll and Peace and Justice. This show is bringing back so many great memories....thank You..🤣🤣
I was born in 1952 and never thought much of the Hippies as a group or something to strive to be. I had trouble enough to learn about how to cope with my environment and learn about how I could be comfortable in the world and find the meaning of life and peace of mind. I found that a person needs to find that inner strength that gives comfort with not needing to depend on other people or material possessions to feel self worth, just feeling satisfied alone in an empty room.
My family always told me I was born a decade too late! I’m a serious hippie! Born in 1970 February 14th. Can’t stand today’s reality and robotic type people we have today! Everyone these days are so easily programmed! They don’t think or question anything! Most of all they seem to only love theirselves.
Yes you just described this last two or three generations.
It was the same back then. The hippies were in love with themselves. Just as narcissistic as nowdays. I was born in 1956. But I remember all about the 60s.
I blame The True Anti-Christ, Ronald Reagan, that great charismatic leader who completely changed the way this country sees itself and rode it to Hell in a handbasket.
I always hoped for a rebellion after the hell of the '80s but we just didn't do that kind of thing anymore. Punk is as close as we came and shows how far we've fallen.
More like twenty years too late. No point being a child in the 60s if you want to be a hippy!
I was born in 1968 and basically grew up on the Grateful Dead circuit... Goddess bless my brothers
wtf i miss the 60s and i wasn't even alive
i was and it was just as confused as the young are today.
Julie N Read David McGowan's Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon. Don't bother missing it, it was major misdirection.
Julie Niskala only those not alive do miss it
I'm alive, I lived through the entire decade and I miss it!!
Yep, the `60's were the best!! We had the best t.v. shows, the best cartoons, the best toys and the best music!! My other fave era, which is a VERY close second, was the `80's! Especially the mid `80's.
Thank you for sharing this. I wonder when we depart this earth whether shows like this will live on in the annuals of my life. I was on the "Whats's happening Mr. Silver?" show at WGBH in Boston. I vaguely remembering your presence on that shoot, but I could be wrong. It was a show in which he asked us about high school filmmakers. Back then I was into filmmaking in high school and he (or staff) gathered a group of us and brought us out into an urban alley and asked us questions as we sat on an angled bulkhead strune with bits of broken glass.
Finally the authentic screenplay is out there waiting to be made. Written by an on location artist, set in Jamaica, Swinging London and Hot Rod Michigan. Atlantis Outpost
To those who say it was complicated, it is so true. Most of the people I knew who jumped into this life were from middle class backgrounds. They had a wide safety net. For those of us whose parents were living from pay cheque to pay cheque, we dabbled. I was always mindful that I would have to make a living so I had a foot in both camps.
But most never were Hippies just a media BS Myth
I must say being poor made it easier to live like a hippy!
Yeah no one wants to talk about how these kids were living off mom and dad and cosplaying as hippies until they had to settle down and focus on creating some order in their lives. Humans are not meant to be so self focused forever
Totally relatable. Same today with any counterculture, like raves and anything that is going to cost money and time. Ideally people could form communal living situations that makes it accessible for everybody, but in reality it rarely works out that way.
@@ElenaArboriathis. I feel like what we need in art today is a radical decomodification. Creating spaces of mutual aid where artists can express counterculture without having to buy into comodifying their art thereby making it prime for capitalist schemes and only accessible to the middle class and up.
"Never a hippie. Always a freak." -Frank Zappa
Let your freak flag fly!
@curbozer Boomer Smoking cigarettes is stupid, but it doesn't interfere with your brain's capability to make rational decisions and think critically.
When my youngest~older brother graduated from HS 1974; after seeing his photo with long brown, shoulder length hair parted in the middle; my grandmother exclaimed “Is he a Yippie!!??”.
Bless her, she was close in her observation but not quite.
Love that memory and especially guys with long hair~sideburns.
When I was young, in the 80s, I got in trouble sometimes about my hair being long. I mean, not like the 60s, I'm sure, but in small towns it was still an issue. I have been kicked out of restaurants and had police search me, and my car, because I "looked suspicious." AKA: I was sitting in my car... with long hair. Or, moving into a new house... with long hair. Lol.
I'm not just being paranoid, the police, whom I later became friends with, actually said, "We had to check you out. You have to know that people are going to be suspicious about you with that hair."
I always laughed it off. No sense in getting mad about it. I chose to have long hair, even though I knew the way I'd be treated.😃
I still live in the same small town, but I don't really know if guys with long hair are still treated the same. It's not really in style and I rarely see it now.
Crazy to think the length of someone’s hair could be illegal.
What would Jesus do.
Born '49.......been there, tuned in, turned on and dropped out. Still at it today at age 69.
Chillax & peace out ;-)
Much love to you my brother.
another wasted life
@Oliver 2000 born in 66, I saw the tiny fragment of you idealistic losers trying to enter the real world. Not one thing to be proud of. Thinking you're anything more than a sad mistake and harbinger of embarrassed grief shows why drugs should be illegal.
@Oliver 2000 patchouli, laziness and pseudo spiritual garbage isnt a legacy...
@Lynda Anthony you should be. This myth is ridiculously childish.
21:28 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED AFTER MY FIRST LSD TRIP. I was not a new person but I felt like i just wanted to start doing my own thing and focus on doing things I am passionate about. Live in the now instead of the past or future, experience life as a journey and not a linear timeline.
wow, thank you for that insight. its amazing what drugs can do.
That was something that Ram Dass spoke of in his book, "Be Here Now". I like to try that and I get it now and them. My ADD makes it hard to do, but sometimes I am able to work through it.
Same!
Lysergic diathlemide 25
Imagine needing drugs for motivation
I was a little kid in the 60’s, I loved things like beads, granny dresses, bell bottoms, and suede fringe vests and purses. In HS it was all about platform shoes, midis, macrame swimsuit, clogs…..then disco, candies shoes, danceskins….. the 80’s….big hair and yuppies, Van Halen, Journey and concerts. In the 90’s my kids were into grunge-out with preppy. I cannot tell you how glad I am NOT a teen or young person today. PEACE!
Being a baby boomer myself I embrace many parts of their lifestyle, not all but many and I still live pretty much the same way today.
Hippies are sweethearts⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘⚘I was a kid..seen many..nice kind and helpful. Not Rude as people are Today!!
Exactly
Screw war, mindless consumerism, environmental destruction, exceptionalism, xenophobia, fear-based religion, and nationalism. If that makes me a hippie, count me in.
Guns Spirits ....hippies are gay dude .....they don't even use deodorant.
@hahades---"What we’re dealing with in U.S. nationalism is not just valuing the United States, but also devaluing the rest of the world - and not just as observers, but as people who believe they have the right, if not the duty, to impose their will on the rest of the world. Exceptionalism is an attitude that tends to include arrogance, ignorance, and aggression, and these tend to do a great deal of damage." www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/10/24/there-is-no-good-kind-of-nationalism/
hahades Nationalism is good but it can also lead to evil., point in case Nazi Germany. The problem is the excessive Nationalism is concerned only with some people but does not guarantee equality at an international level. Now if all you care for is your country and certain sectors of society then it may be good. It all depends which side you belong to, that will determine of Nationalism favors you personally.
Anthon Deutsch yesterday’s nazis are today’s zionists . Why go so far back in time ?
Count me in, still.
I grew up in the 60's and I never longed to be a "hippy" although I adopted a slightly rebellious attitude after my parents divorced in 69 and grew my hair long for a while; mostly because I/we idolized many of the rock & roll bands from then. First it was Grand Funk Railroad, & Mark Farner with his long hair. I/we also took guitar lessons so rock & roll was at the forefront of our interests. Everybody's experiences were different back then. Muscle car's were also at the forefront of society and widely popular.
At 16 years old I marched in a moratorium. It started at the local university with a peace rally and ended at the town hall. It was an announced event and the high school said if we were absent that day we would be suspended. My brother's number was up and he was in Nam. My mother called the school that day and told them I was sick and would not be attending. My best friend's mother told her if she was going to march she needed to suffer the consequences. My mother called the school pretending she was my friend's mother saying she was sick and not able to attend. Way to go Mom.
As someone who was young in the 60's (I grew up in LA and went to live in Berkeley) it was a whole lot more than this documentary, although, of course, I am grateful for sharing it. It was an exciting and a difficult time to live, and a lot more than hedonism and drug experiment. So many important movements arose from that time - environmentalism alongside the back to the land movement, the second wave of feminism, the mysticism and exploration of consciousness that arose from the 60's and New Age, political rejection of the Vietnam War, so much more.
Please remember Lauren, as it says in the description, this is a clip from six hours of television I produced on this subject. You can find other clips on other elements of what we chose to focus on.
David Hoffman filmmaker
Totally agree I was10 and up very wild acid was my love ,,first time at 12 ,,in 1968 but school rules the police ,insulting old people .Some good but alot of bad ,alot of family abuse and they were trying to forget .
I've got a 8inces of Lincolnshire sousage 🥒, so I know my rights, when I'm aroused l stand up for what's going on 😁👍
Feminism = the downfall of a society
ahh femin1sm, the most disgusting thing that has ever happened to women.
A pinch of hippiness should always be in every community
Devbrat Singh Yes!
Okay so it was on PBS I saw this part's documentary back in the early 90's on TV but I didn't know it was you who produced this documentary David. Again you did a great job with the other people who helped you produce it very well done 👍👍🌺🌼💮🌻
I wasn't born until 1954 but I grew up in the 60's. I started playing guitar in 1962 and became a professional musician in 1972. I was into the Beatles, Stones, Hendrix and all the others plus country music and pop music. Even though I played in dope smoking bands I never used any drugs myself. I never became a hippie or protested. It just wasn't my thing. I was more influenced by my dad and the things his generation did like fishing and hunting. My dad also taught me to play guitar. I was really a misfit in my occupation. My euphoric high was learning more about making good music. I'm thankful there was people different than me because they bought the music.
"I sat for an hour with a girl and we both just explored each others faces with our fingers"
LOL. that guy was not just smoking Pot.. he was trippin on acid. LOL Been there , done that , bought the T shirt
It was beautiful lol
That's called acid
Your'e both blind?A heart warming story.Amazing.Write it sell it!
I dunno. First time I had pot at 17 (reg medicinal user now) the guy I liked just traced my lower back with his fingers for like two hours. We were so damn high. 😂 just laying on the floor snuggling and talking about how awesome my hair was. Lmao
Funny how the hippie generation led to all tech we have now. Steve Jobs and his contemporaries were all hippies.
And a lot tried psychedelics
Yeah, a loooot of drugs opened and expanded their minds.
Are you stupid not everyone who was a teenager in the 60's was a hippie. In the same way not ever teenager from the 90's was a goth.
@Liberty Constitution Legacy
I never said that ALL drugs open minds, I do understand that there are drugs that just f** up the mind, I totally agree that we need nature, love, RESPECT, wisdom, UNDERSTANDING, and empathy in the world, most drugs turns people into zombies, that’s their choice and I don’t blame or judge anyone because I try to put myself in their shoes, unlike many people like you that did not even understand what I meant and judged me based on 10 words that I wrote.
Sending you light, love and conscience, maybe you won’t hide yourself with a dog picture that who knows who you are.
Mwah, kisses and lots of love to you so you don’t judge others based on few words.
Peace out 😘
Even President Nixon tried LSD when it was legal and all the intellectuals experimented together. :)
I was during the 60s and 70s, a hippie, a leftist radical, a college student, a college dropout, a veteran, a communard, a laborer, a science student at a hippie college, an auto mechanic, a conservative, homeless, and god knows how many other things. The good thing was that we were not separated into compartments but could change freely back and forth. It was the antithesis of a life where you set a goal and spent the rest of your life in pursuit of that goal.
What we avoided is that thing that always comes back to haunt us - life in boxes. You have to be this. You have to be that. You can't be in between. You can't be someone new. You can't ever change your mind about anything. You have to be a robot and do whatever a computer says. You have to spend your life trying to be different by being the same as everybody else. You are a replaceable part in the machinery of the state.
It was an understandable rejection of rigid life, but look where we are now. Drugs turned out to be hugely damaging, a plague, and can we say America embraced a better set of values? Or that a better set of values emerged that we have today? The Me Generation seems to have won, and not in a good way.