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signalfire
It started for me in 1963, the year Kennedy was assassinated, and we were still doing duck and cover under our desks, and then one day during a drill, I looked my teacher square in the eye, and she looked back at me, and I realized that she realized that our particle board and formica desks weren't going to protect us from a nuclear blast, especially since we were a few miles from Kodak's Hawkeye plant, that made bomb sights, and probably had several nice Russian nukes aimed at it, just for it alone, and with extra nice Russian nukes left over for those of us who might survive the first couple of nukes, nukes with our name on them, nukes just for us.
And I realized that the adults were insane, or delusional. Then Vietnam happened, and Johnson that creep with his felon VP Spiro Agnew and his equally felonious but at least smarter successor Richard Nixon, and we all started realizing that capitalism equaled professional war mongering, and somebody you know came back in a body bag, then several somebodies, and the smart ones went to Canada or just fell off the grid and refused to participate...
The more the straights mocked the hippies, the more the hippies realized they were right.
Capitalism and the joke of 'justice for all', worse thing ever to happen to the planet.
How did it happen that a natural plant, whose chemical constituents have natural receptors in every cell in the human body got demonized and made illegal, (because it makes you think truly clearly, perhaps?), but killing en masse is somehow okey-doke, as long as the Pentagon and Dow Chemical and GE do it? Because they're on the stock market Big Board? And make money for people who manage to live comfortably without any semblance of a conscience?
AthlonSavage
why do hippies think they so cool. ? Hippies dreadlocked people who live in the dirt will save the world? Im not getting it.
I wouldn't bother trying to get it If I were you, just continue to careen down the road toward the future we are carving out and feel good about it...You'll probably be a higher up type in some NWO scenario, contracted to burn books perhaps;
AthlonSavage
reply to post by minkmouse
I wouldn't bother trying to get it If I were you, just continue to careen down the road toward the future we are carving out and feel good about it...You'll probably be a higher up type in some NWO scenario, contracted to burn books perhaps;
you avoided my question which is not surprising, a Hippie always avoids any responsibility.
I'm a hippy entrepreneur, film producer, SAG/AFTRA and I'll bet you have seen me in either movies or on TV
AthlonSavage
reply to post by olaru12
I'm a hippy entrepreneur, film producer, SAG/AFTRA and I'll bet you have seen me in either movies or on TV
A rich hippie, huh not surprising most hippies are embedded somewhere in the money pit as at end of the day they are really very materialistic people (they just wont admit it).
I bet I haven't seen you, I go in for older movies pre CGI much better stories and actors etc.
Being a hippie doesn't have anything to do with material **** but I do have some nice toys. It's about an attitude, a joie de vivre and most important being happy and not buying into the negative BS.
Just so you know...I went to school and worked my ass off for everything I have.