Reply #178: where to begin [View All]

the only reason the hippie is allowed to endure as the cultural icon of the 60s is exactly because they were completely non-threatening and ineffective at stopping the right turn of the 70s and 80s. i mean, it was essentially a movement of middle class white kids getting high and fucking each other. who cares? while you guys were busy convincing yourselves that taking a few hits of acid and rolling around in the mud was going to change the world there were people like the black panthers actually fighting to create a new world in their own communities. there were people of color all over the south doing the heavy lifting of the civil rights movement. there were poor people of all colors working nationwide fighting for labor reforms. but you guys were busy getting high and fucking. great job. and the irony of it all is that is exactly what people of color and the poor are shat on for all the time...not working...getting high...and being overly sexual. i guess it's only revolutionary when middle class white kids do it. so yeah...we're tired of hearing old hippies talk about how great it was. because really it was NOTHING compared to the birth of the global anti-capitalist movement in seattle 99.