Were the Hippies right?

In my humble opinion, no matter what the virtues or lack of them of any youth oriented, generational oriented culture movement two things are ultimately going to happen.

The first is that no real revolution has been very successful in the last few millennia (including ours here in America in 1776) because at a certain level of the World Wide Power Structure (New World Order) you have to deal with the power, and control of the International Banking Cartel and the Military Industrial Complex.

That system of internationally and privately regulated currencies, stocks and bonds and the culture of war and death and intolerance towards others who are different in any noticeably tangible way, makes their power so preeminent, that it literally does trump the power of nations.

While the hippies were protesting the Vietnam War, Rockefeller’s son was lost at sea (possibly eaten by cannibals) near Borneo searching for authentic shrunken heads for his collection, while even more tragically George Bush, Jr. later became found after stumbling around in a alcoholic and coc aine induced daze for a couple decades.

The Bankers and Merchants of Death are amazingly happy with the artificial scarcity paradigm they created and maintain to create a manageable chaos that they can rely on us to turn to them to order and make secure (relatively speaking), all the while profiting every step of the way.

At a certain point climbing up the corporate, social or political latter you encounter these oh so refined and set in their ways gentlemen who will always without fail make the ages old maxim of “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”, or if you like in the immortal words of the Who, who so despised hippies that they kicked (literally) Abbie Hoffman off the stage at Woodstock when it was time to perform “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.

If the International Banking Cartel and Military Industrial Complex can not corrupt you and bend you to their will, they will just alternately isolate you (re: Castro/Cuba, Kim/North Korea, Assad/Syria) or murder you if need be (re: Kennedy).

Ultimately as a counter revolution movement, the hippie movement failed, because while the ‘Tune In’ concept is anathema to the International Banking Cartel and Military Industrial Complex, the ‘Drop Out’ part of the strategy left that all powerful International Shadow Government virtually unmolested to continue business as usual.

No counter culture revolution or political movement will ever succeed in fundamentally changing the world until the ENTIRE world, agrees simultaneously to do away with the International Banking Cartel and Military Industrial Complex.

Until that is done any more virtuous, peaceful or prosperous ideas or notions are always going to be defeated or corrupted piecemeal by the International Money Cartel and Military Industrial Complex in a methodic and certain way.

reply to post by ghostsoldier


Please don't insult the black civil rights movement by suggesting that hippies were somehow tied to it. They contributed nothing to that at all. Nor did htey contribute to the Chicano movement. And the twits tried to make a bundle by selling indian chic thrift store crap in response to the native Americna movements.

Every time I see some snot in dredlocks wearing an "indian prays to a moon while a wolf howls and an eagle soars" T-shirt, I want to find a stick and start whacking him.

Originally posted by ventian
The hippies gave us some great music and I have always appreciated their environmental stance even before it was corrupted. Some like Hilary Clinton who infiltrated the hippies went on to abuse those who want to make the environment better. The ones I hate were those that were burning flags and spitting on soldiers, they irk me. The same goes to all groups though, some people are just bad apples and looking to show out. One more thing, Code Pink can go to you know where, I have seen nothing good about them.

Most of the soldier-spitting came from the right, actually, who were pissed that the soldiers had "lost the war." This is why Vietnam Vets had to fight tooth and nail for recognition form organizations like the VFW and American Legion.

Basically - if you weren't there - you don't know what the hell you are talking about.

For one thing the political protests and the drug movement were completely separate. They just happened to coincide in time and place - - and eventually came crashing together.

The political protesting was started by college students - not drop outs.

It was a magical time I would like to see again. And - I never did drugs. It wasn't my thing.

reply to post by TheWalkingFox

The hippies were basically white middle class kids who "dropped out". I suppose blacks and other minorities couldn't really drop out of a sytem that never included them in the first place.
I think the original hippies were quite a small group of active, creative people. It was apparently the Scott McKenzie song "San Francisco" that attracted millions of unwanted kids into the hippie areas, and they caused a tragedy on the streets and many other problems.
The responses of minorities to the hippies were however mixed, and not wholly negative. Perhaps people forget how restricted the atmosphere was before the hippies. I don't think it was coincidence that "black power" and "red power" emerged towards the tail-end of the hippies, and wider society at least wanted to listen...
Partly it also created interest in native arts, and various native peoples also benefitted from this.
But ultimately it was an experiment in white, heterosexual dominator society.



[edit on 3-4-2010 by halfoldman]

I think the hippies got some things right and some wrong. IMO it was a false start of the so called "age of Aquarius". Hopefully we will see a new one soon, this time for real.