Remember how people made fun of you for recycling, back in the seventies? I do. (No curb service, back then.) Being a vegetarian was not considered nouveau. But we lived it, nonetheless. Hey, it only took about thirty years for the mainstream to catch on. It would appear that they should have listened to us silly hippies after all. Maybe we wouldn't be teetering on the brink of disaster right now. Here is a quick post about just that, from Roseanne. ( I'm not so big on her religious hype, but I think she's a pretty cool broad.)
From Roseanne World
March 11, 2007
The Hippies Were Right
We must need less! That is the only hope we have against the huge machine that enslaves us to money and war..need less, simplify your life. walk, don't drive, ride a bike, wear a sweater inside, stop eating meat, stop buying things, and stop throwing things away. The hippies were right about everything.
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4 comments:
Somewhere deep down I think even then people knew what was right; they just expected to be able to buy their way out of having to do it!
alan
You must remember, even more back then, if the media and those with corporate greed could not make money off of you, it had to be shut down.
Just like today.
Fortunately, even out here, there are clusters of people doing with much less and staying away from all things mainstream......
like you, I thought she was great on Bill Mahr last week.
oh my yes, i was one of those ridiculed hippies in the seventies!! Don't you feel vindicated? I do!
Unfortunately, many hippies were seduced by the "Dark Side".
This makes it even more important for those of us remaining to try and bring our brothers and sisters back into the fold.
d.
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