HIPPIES A CULTURAL LIFESTYLE......

HIPPIE’S ( A CULTURAL LIFESTYLE)

THERE WAS A MOVEMENT IN EUROPE CALLED “DIGGERS” THAT WOULD MOVE INTO DESERTED BUILDINGS AND RENOVATE USING RECYCLED MATERIALS. THEY SCRONGED EVERYTHING TO MAKE IT WORK. THIS INFLUENCED THE YEARLY VISITORS FROM AMERICA’S YOUTH ON THEIR SUMMER SOJORN. OUT OF ALL THIS EXPIERANCE AND ENTERPETATION THE “HIPPIE” MOVEMENT WAS BORN. THE FIRST COMMUNE IS DEBATABLE, AS WELL AS WHOM WAS THE GREAT GRANDADDY OF ALL HIPPIE’S, AND WHOM MADE THE RULES. THE FACT’S WILL NEVER BE KNOWN; BECAUSE HIPPIES DIDN’T HAVE ANY RULES. THEY WERE A TRIBE WITH NO REGULATIONS. IT WAS A LIFESTYLE BASED AROUND MUSIC, DANCE, FREE SPIRIT LIVING, WITH PEACE AND HARMONY FOR EVERYTHING IN THIS LIFE. IT WAS THE CHILD OF EXPIERAMENTATION WITH SHAMANISTIC RITUAL AND ORGANIC SUBSTANCES. THEY WERE TIRED OF THE DOGMA OF PREVIOUS GENERATIONS, AND THE HYPOCRACY THAT EXISTED IN THE WORLD. LIFE WAS YET TO BE EXPLAINED THROUGH AN INNER JOURNEY THAT USED PHYSCEDELIC SUBSTANCES AS ITS VEHICLE. THE HIGH PRIEST OF SACRAMENTS WAS A REAL COLLEGE EDUCATED PERSON THAT PREACHED ABOUT PEACE AND LOVE, A REAL DOCTOR, DR.TIMOTHY LEARY, WHOM ADVOCATED THE USAGE OF A RELATIVELY NEW SUBSTANCE CALLED “LSD”. THEY PREFERED TO LIVE FOR FREE IN AMERICA, OFF THE EXCESS OF THAT FAT NATION; THAT WAS HEADED OFF TO WAR. THEY DIDN’T BELIEVE IN WAR, OR SEPARATE NATIONS, AND THOUGHT OF THIS WORLD AS THEIR PLAYGROUND. THE FINANCES THAT SPONSORED THIS, WERE WELFARE AND FOOD STAMPS. THEY GATHERED TOGETHER IN EMPTY BUILDINGS AND CHEAP HOUSING IN GHETTO’S EVERYWHERE AND HAD A UNIFORM OF BRIGHTLY COLORED CLOTHING, AND FLOWERS IN THEIR HAIR. THEY EXPIERAMENTED WITH SEX, AND USED ANCHIENT TEXT LIKE THE “KAMA SUTRA” AS A GUIDE. THE DIET OF POST WAR SURVIVORS WAS GIVEN UP IN FAVOR OF A NATURAL AND ORGANIC LIFESTYLE. EVERYONE HAD BEEN

LIVING OUT OF CANS, WAITING FOR A NUCLEAR HALOCAUST. THIS WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE, NOR WAS THE RELIGIOUS HYPE PROFESSED AT THE TIME. THIS WAS A NEW RELIGION, THAT HAD REAL ACCEPTANCE FOR EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING, EXCEPT WAR AND VIOLENCE. THE ARMS RACE AND THE COLD WAR HAD CREATED THE NEED FOR AN ALTERNATE LIFESTYLE, THAT PLANNED ON ENJOYMENT IN THE LAST DAYS OF EXISTANCE, FOR ALL MANKIND. THEY WANTED TO PARTY. TRAVEL EVERYWHERE AND NEVER WORK FOR THE “MAN”. A HIPPIE OF THE 60’S WAS BUSY HAVING FUN, LIVING FREE AND STONED OUT OF THEIR MINDS. ON ANY GIVEN DAY, A HIPPIE GATHERING WOULD OCCUR; THAT HOUSED, FED AND CLOTHED ITS POPULATION SO IT COULD SURVIVE. COMMUNES SPRUNG UP ALL OVER THE WORLD AND WAS PART OF AN UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THAT HELPED THE DRAFT DODGERS AND MILITARY DESERTERS SURVIVE, AND EXCAPE TO SAFE HAVENS IN CANADA AND MEXICO.THE FOOD STAMP ECONOMY WAS ITS VERY OWN CURRENCY AND WELFARE MONEY WAS USED TO PROVIDE HOUSING AND PARTY ESSENTIALS LIKE DRUGS AND ALCOHOL. ART AND MUSIC WERE CULTURAL PURSUITS ALONG WITH MARATHON MUSIC AND DANCE HAPPENINGS CALLED FESTIVALS. THE WOODSTOCK NATION AND THE HIPPIES WERE A FUSION OF SIMILAR BELIEFS. AFTER THIS GATHERING ON A FARM NEAR WOODSTOCK CALLED “YASGURS FARM” IT EXPLODED INTO A STONER NATION OF LSD, PEYOTE, MUSHROOM, MARIJAUNA AND STP, DMT, OPIATES, FUELED ECONOMY; SPREADING ITS MESSAGE OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS. YOU COULD TRAVEL BY HITCHIKING AROUND THE COUNTRY AND GETTING EMERGENCY FOOD STAMPS EVERYWHERE. SOMEPLACES EVEN GAVE YOU MONEY. THAN RATHER THAN STAYING IN THAT PLACE YOU COULD MOVE ON TO ANOTHER ONE AND DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN. IF YOU HAD A COLLECTION ADDRESS FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE, THE STAMPS WERE DELIVERED IN THE MAIL. AS LONG AS THEY WERE NEVER RETURNED, THEY KEPT COMING FOR AN ENTIRE YEAR. THIS WAS BECAUSE OF THE YEARLY REPORTS THAT AN INDIVIDUAL HAD TO MAKE OUT IN PERSON AT THE ISSUING OFFICE. I KNEW PEOPLE THAT COLLECTED FOODSTAMPS UNTIL THEY HAD A LARGE AMOUNT AND THEN THEY WOULD BROKER THIS INTO CASH BY OFFERING THEM AT A REDUCED RATE OF 50/50 FOR ANYONE WILLING TO MAKE THE EXCHANGE. THEY WERE ONLY GOOD IN AMERICA, AND MANY TRIPS OVERSEAS WERE PAID FOR IN THIS MANNER. I EVEN KNEW A DRUG DEALER OR TWO THAT NEGOTIATED FOR THEM IN THIS WAY. DRUG DEALING LSD WAS VERY PROFITABLE. A GRAM OF LSD WAS APPROXIMATLY 4,000 DOSES AND COULD BE SMUGGLED VERY EASILY. IT CAME IN ALL KINDS OF DISCRIPTIONS AND WAS AVAILABLE ON EVERY CAMPUS OF EVERY UNIVERSITY DURING THE 60’S AND 70’S AND PART OF THE 80’S. THE GOOD DR.TIMOTHY LEARY AND HIS CRONIE RICHARD ALPERT TRAVELED AROUND GIVING SPEECHES THAT WERE THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THIS NEW CULTURAL PHENOMENOM. SANDOZ PHARMACUTICAL WAS THE PURIST FORM AND USED IN THE REHABILITATION OF ALCOHOLIC’S IN EXPIERAMENTS. IT WAS ENTIRELY LEGAL UNTIL THE 70’S AND UNDERGROUND LABS SPRUNG UP EVERYWHERE TO CREATE THE SUPPLY. THE MUSIC OF THIS NEW GENERATION WAS INSPIRED BY THIS DRUG AND PEOPLE COULD DANCE UNTIL THE SUN CAME UP WATCHING HALLUCINATIONS AND RAINBOW COLORS MANIFEST IN AN EXPIERANCE CALLED A “TRIP”. I TRIPPED LAST NIGHT DIDN’T MEAN YOU FELL DOWN, RATHER THAT YOU GOT SO HIGH IT WAS UNBELIVEABLE. IF YOU DOUBLED THE DOSE YOU DOUBLED THE FUN. SOME PEOPLE TRIPPED EVERYDAY FOR YEARS, AND SOME OF US FOR DECADES. WE WERE GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD. I COULD HITCHHIKE TO SAN FRANCISCO AND BUY A GRAM OF LSD FOR $1,000. I THAN WOULD TAKE IT WITH ME WHEREVER I WAS GOING AND SELL IT FOR $5 A DOSE. IN EUROPE IT WAS WORTH MORE. I EVEN SOLD IT IN SCANDINAVIA FOR $20 A DOSE. THE UNDERGROUND WAS FUELED BY THIS ACTIVITY AND HIPPIES SPROUTED UP EVERYWHERE. RURAL AMERICA WAS TRIPPING. SUBURBAN KIDS WERE TRIPPING. THE GHETTO’S WERE TRIPPING. OUR ANNUAL GNP DOUBLED WITH THIS NEW ECONOMY. POOR HIPPIES WERE GETTING RICH AND LIVING AFFLUENT LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND FAMOUS. FREDDY LAKER AIRWAYS COULD GET YOU TO EUROPE FOR $100 ONE WAY. YOU COULD GET A ONE WAY FLIGHT TO HAWAII FOR A 100 BUCKS. EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA HIPPIES HITCHIKED AND SOLD DRUGS AS THEY SPREAD THE WORD OF UNIVERSAL LOVE. THEY LEARNED SOMETHING NEW ABOUT THEIR PURPOSE, AND WERE A THREAT TO THE ESTABLISHED ORDER. THE WAR WAS GOING TO POT. SO, THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX GOD INTO THE GAME WITH LSD COMPOUNDS THAT MADE ITS USERS FREAK OUT. IT WAS GOING TO DESTROY THIS ANTIWAR ATTITUDE FROM THE INSIDE WITH ITS OWN DIET OF DRUGS. COCAINE AND HEROIN ARRIVED AS CO-CONSPIRITORS IN THIS NEW EFFORT TO RETAIN CONTROL AND STOP THE REVOLUTION. IF THE PEOPLE ADAPTED A HIPPY LIFESTYLE, THEY WOULDN’T BE ABLE TO SELL WEAPONS OR USE THEM ANYMORE. WORLD HUNGER AND HOMELESSNESS WOULD BE EXTINCT, AND EVERYONE WOULD GET ALONG. THE PEOPLE WOULD BECOME UNCONTROLLABLE. SO, THE DEA WAS FORMED THAT USED PRICIPLES OF DECIET TO DETECT THE DEALERS AND ARREST THEM, CONVICT THEM, INPRISON THEM FOR VERY LONG TIMES. THEY STARTED THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY AS A UNIT BY INCARCERATING ONE PARENT OR THE OTHER, MAKING A NATION OF WELFARE RECIPIANTS, LIVING IN SLUMS ON FOODSTAMPS, THAT USED HARD NARCOTIC’S TO EXCAPE FROM THE REALITY THEY LIVED IN. COCAINE FUELED ECONOMY WAS A DIFFERENT VIBE. HEROIN HAD A HISTORY OF DIBILITATING NATIONS, FOR A VERY LONG TIME. PEOPLE FORGOT THEIR WORRIES AND ONLY HAD ONE DESIRE WHEN THEY BECAME ADDICTED, “MORE DOPE”. THE UPSET OF THE DIRECTION OF THE HIPPIE MOVEMENT WAS CAUSED BY A DIRECT CONSPIRACY OF THE HIGHEST LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT. YOU HAVE TO WONDER ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF DRUGS THAT ARE ADDICTIVE. HOW CAN YOU TRAVEL EVERYWHERE IN AMERICA AND GET THE DRUGS OF CHOICE, EVRYWHERE? DOESN’T IT SEEM STRANGE THAT THE MORE INDUSTRY THAT EXISTED THE MORE DRUGS THAT WERE AVAILABLE. THE MILITARY WAS NO EXCEPTION. WE HAD BECOME A NATION OF DRUG ABUSE AND USAGE THAT EXCEEDED EVERY OTHER PRODUCT IN AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENT.

STOP THE PRODUCTION OF LSD WAS THE MANTRA OF THE DEA. A BAND OF MUSICIANS CALLED “THE GRATEFUL DEAD” TRAVELED AROUND WITH A RAG TAG ARMY OF FOLLOWERS CALLED “DEADHEADS”. IT ATTRACTED AL THE DRUGGIES AND DEALERS WHEREVER IT WENT. THEY SOLD THE CLOTHING THAT HIPPIES IDENTIFIED WITH; RAINBOW COLORED TYE-DYES AND DRUG PARAPHENALIA, AS WELL AS THE BEST DRUGS AVAILABLE. EACH CONCERT WAS A CONVENTION. IT WAS A DRUGS, SEX, AND ROCK AND ROLL EXPIERANCE WITH LITLE ABILITY TO REMEMBER WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. PEOPLE SAW GOD MANIFEST AND CHANGED THEIR OPINION ABOUT LIFE AND LIVING. FESTIVALS SPRANG UP ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY AND CITIES HAD A NEW PART OF TOWN THAT CATERED TO THIS CULTURE. THE GOVERNMENT WAS LOSING CONTROL. THEY INFILTRATED CONCERTS AND FESTIVALS WITH “NARKS” A NEFARIOUS GROUP OF UNDERCOVER AGENTS. IT ALSO MADE ITS OWN PRODUCT LSD. THE GOVERNMENT VERSION MADE IN ITS EXPIERAMENTAL LAB USING HUMAN GUINEA PIGS IN THE U.S. ARMY AND AT MEDICAL CENTERS LIKE THE PRESIDIO IN SAN FRANCISCO DEVELOPED A VERSION THAT WOULD NOT ONLY GET YOU HIGH, BUT FREAK YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND. IT WOULD WEAKEN YOUR SPIRIT AND MAKE YOU SCITZOPRENIC. IT WOULD MAKE YOU PARANOID AND RECLUSIVE. HOW WERE YOU GOING TO BE EFFECTIVE IF YOU COULN’T GET OUT OF THE HOUSE?? THE INFLUENCE OF THE ORIGINAL “HIPPIES” LIVES ON REGARDLESS OF ALL ATTEMPTS TO STOP IT, BY THE ESTABLISHMENT. WE SEE IT IN THE GREEN MOVEMENT. MEDICAL MARIJAUNA

LEGALIZATION AND SPIN-OFF FESTIVALS LIKE “THE BURNING MAN”, ARE A CONSTANT REMINDER THAT HIPPIES SURVIVED THE WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER PLANNED BY THE EVIL EMPIRE. LSD IS THE MOST ENDANGERED DRUG, WITH THE HIGHEST CONSEQUENCES IN PUNISHMENT ON THE BOOKS. THEY DO NOT WANT A REPEAT PERFORMANCE AND GIVE STIFF SENTENCES FOR DISTRIBUTORS. MANDATORY LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR THE POSSESSION OF LARGE QUANTITIES UNDER FEDERAL GUIDELINES. HITCHICKING IS FORBIDDEN AND THE POLICE LEARNED HOW TO DETECT DRUGS AND LOCATE THEM IN SPECIAL EDUCATION SEMINARES THAT RESULTED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS CULTURAL EXPIERANCE. WE DRESSED IN RAINBOWS AND WORE LONG HAIR AND BEARDS AS WE PLAYED AND TRAVELED IN THE LAND OF THE FREE. WE NEVER NEEDED I.D.’S, BUT ALWAYS COULD FIND ONE CHEAP IF NEED BE. NOWDAYS, EVERYTHING IS SOPHISTICATED BY ALL OUR HIGH TECH GEAR AND THEY HAVE A CAMERA EVERYWHERE WATCHING AND A RECORDING DEVICE LISTENING THAT MAKES “ORWELLS”

VISION OF THE FUTURE SEEM LIKE KINDERGARDEN

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