| Goddamn hippies give me the shits. Now I must admit upfront that I wasn't alive in 'the 60s' (insert sneering tone into my voice). But what I have experienced is this great nostalgai for the past. For the summer of fucking love. And you know what I say to it? Bollocks. Bollocks, bollocks, bollocks...BOLLOCKS This is what you get with baby boomers over represented in the thought-making industry... And by 'thought making industry' I mean newspaper editorials, tv documentaries and repeats of 'classic' shows, 'retro' fashion, and a million and one movie remakes of those said same 'classic' sitcoms. (Whoever is responsible for those fucking Brady Bunch movies will be found and they will pay dearly, trust me). ...but anyway, what you get is a misguided longing for the halcyon days of their adolescence, tainte with a viewpoint biased by a sense of their own self importance and an all too readyness to believe their own hype. Well, I'm down with Flava Flav y'all, don't believe the hype. Okay, well, let's put this in context. What exactly did the hippy movement acheive? A bunch of dickheads grew their hair long, sat in fields, smoked a bunch of drugs, had sex, then grew up and becam lawyers and investment bankers and got hella rich in the 80s. What are the lasting effects of that? Dead brain cells, unwanted kids and STDs? You can't tell me the hippie movement was ever a serious political threat. Come on, it was laughed at by middle america. The hippy movement was as much a threat to the establishment as a band like boysetsfire is today. In other words, not much. (Don't mean they don't write a good song though, which is probably more than can be said for a lot of 'hippie music'...oh, taste is so subjective...). The Australian equivalent - the Vietnam moratorium - is the same. Great, a lot of people came together and marched in the streets. Not as many as those who claim to have been there today mind you. And let's never add in to our '30th anniversary' newspaper articles the fact that the Australian government had already begun troop withdrawls a few months before, will we? Paris in 68 with petrol bombs being chucker at police cars was a threat to the establishment. Bad acoustic guitar protest songs the campfire weren't. I don't condone political violence, or any violence for that matter. But the point remains effective. I mean fine, a lot of kids got something from it, that's great. But what shits me now is this 'we saved the world for you' attitude given off by jerks my parents age. And even my mum and dad think it's bullshit. As always, nostalgia distorts the truth. And when that nostalgia is being manufactured by the same people who control our perceptions of that time (through their dominance of that 'thought making industry' mentioned above), you can get a little sick of this ego-boosting self delsuion. What, is it guilt over selling out all your hippie ideals in the 80s? All I can say is thank fuck punk rock brought us an alternative. I hear claims your generation paved a better life for all, but your eyes are fucking blinded by a suburban middle class wal. I hear claims the world is a better place, less work more recreation, but your claims fall short in third world dollar a day sleep deprivation. - mid youth crisis Where's the utopia all your free love ideals and student activism bought us, hey? You fucking failed to deliver us - your children - the future your promised, and we'll be cleaning up the mess your self indulgent, 'don't give a fuck because I'm too busy having fun' attitudes have left long after you're dead. Fuck Hippies. You failed. You acheived nothing. Stop pretending like it's any different. BACK : HOME |
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