We need a Hippie resurrection. [View All]

[kpete]

The Saints Are Coming
by One Pissed Off Liberal
Sat Apr 26, 2008 at 11:08:13 AM PDT
(Cross posted from Docudharma)


If the hippies had won that struggle in the 60s we’d live in a more humane world today.

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If the hippies had prevailed, if our society had followed their lead, we'd have a world much closer to being ecologically balanced. We'd have mature alternative energy technologies and organic food grown on family farms would predominate. We'd likely be at peace in a peaceful world and we'd be actively engaged in helping other nations help themselves in purely benign relations with our fellow earthlings. Though the world would certainly still be imperfect, we'd be masters of diplomacy and things would be generally better in this world for virtually everyone. We might have fewer millionaires and billionaires but trust me nobody would miss them.

The important point is that we would not be killing each other - we'd be taking care of each other.

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Oh I know, I'm hopelessly naïve. People couldn't possibly be good to each other. How ridiculous. I should just grow up and face the brutal fact that we are nothing but ignorant and mean-spirited savages.

That kind of thinking is what has brought us to this point. We had choices. Peace, love and understanding are the choices the hippies urged. Fear, war and empty-headed consumerism were the choices forced down our throats by the rightwing. It wasn't inevitable - and it wasn't us. It could've all been very different.


more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/26/14551/3007/504/503938