The Dirty Fucking Hippies WERE RIGHT!

[Dystopian]

peace~

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Wait a second. At 1:38, is that/was that Greenland?

Ulp

[Warpy]

2. Yeah, we know we were

Most of our social stuff, the tolerance for gays and respect for the rights of women as human beings, has become part of the culture. Our economic stuff provoked a plutocratic backlash that cursed this country with Republicans and conservative Democrats. Sorry about that, but we didn't vote for them.

Still, research into renewable energy has been starved but not abolished. Research into cooperative living instead of competitive living is ongoing. We're now old and battered, but we're still fighting all those good fights whenever we can.

What we did, change the social narrative from regimentation, segregation and repression into relative freedom and mutual respect, was nothing short of astonishing. That it is still incomplete is just the human condition.

I have hope that the kids coming along now will reject the materialism of the later Boomers and Gen X and take up where we left off. It's their fight now.

[Marnie]

3. The next time the Republicans try to blame all America's problems on the

Baby Boomers, just remember we are the Hippies that stopped the war, the Greatest Generation forced us to fight in, fought for voting rights, and the ERA (Equal rights for women's amendment) and went to the streets to get Tricky Dick (that's Nixon not MOD Santorum) kicked out of the WH.
Oh yeah, and we invented the computer.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Love me some dirty, beautiful, truth-seeking hippies

[ElboRuum]

5. May be a small thing, but I'm big on accuracy.

ENIAC (the first general purpose computer) was introduced in 1946. So, no.

[MrMickeysMom]

7. We gotta do it again...

Before we're the dirty fucking dead hippies...

[burrowowl]

6. And us Old Farts Hippies are

still right and are among the many showing up at OW Protests. I would like to see more Younuns!

[rag_doll]

8. Right On!

We were right and we need to do it again!