Hippiecrit
Published May 2004 & for the West Coast Tour 2005
Why the Movement Never got off the Ground
It was as if we were all in an airplane sitting on the
runway and everyone on board was getting high waiting for
the airplane to take off. We were high on the Summer of
Love, the end of the war, the hope of a better world. The
revolution and the birth of our consciences filled our hearts
with vision. But when we looked out the window, all we could
see was the smoke that billowed forth from our water pipes.
We thought we were flying high, man; we thought we had taken
off, but as the smoke cleared and we looked out the window,
there we were, still on the ground. Then as we filed off
the plane, we found ourselves right where we had started
all those years ago; a little grayer, a lot sadder, and
airsick on top of it all.
Table of Contents:
Come Together
My Elusive
Dream
No one told us that Thomas More's "Utopia"
wasn't real. Even if they had, we wouldn't have believed
them... We couldn't find an island like in More's 16th
-century dream, so we settled for something a little bit
less... Haight-Ashbury!
An interview with Robert Houriet, author of the book by that name.
Radical
of Radicals
A radical can only bring about a positive change in society
if he himself is rooted in a life-sustaining source.
A Hippiecritical
Analysis of the '60s
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If we did not attain to the society of love and peace we
sought, who is to blame? Most of us eventually settled for
the status quo and have become what we once hated. If you
have ever wondered why the Movement never got off the ground,
you may find the answer in these articles.
Colors
That Weren't Real
We've Got to
Get Ourselves Back to the Garden
A Place to Belong
Communes sprang up where evryone shared everything,
and returned to the simple life.We tilled the soil and planted
crops, scraping at he dirt and scratching out a living.
We built simple houses and started families with varying
degrees of propriety.The quiet life,the simple life, the
life of love and pease was our goal.
Bringing Forth
Wind
Have you ever stopped to consider your life: where
you’ve been and where you’re going, and what
you have really accomplished in your days on the earth?
It seems like so many live and die without considering the
consequential effect of their life. Some have reached the
conclusion that it doesn’t really matter...
The Universal
Righteousness Machine
Professor Zygote had finally cracked the automation
equation, paving the way for the creation of the ulti-mate
machine, a machine capable of wip-ing out all forms of crime
overnight -without the help of guards, policemen, detectives,
lawyers, judges, juries, jailers, executioners, parole officers,
alarm sys-tems, prisons, or even locks and keys. The very
thought was staggering. It would truly be the ultimate machine,
the law enforcement machine.
Timothy Leary's
Dead
Doctor Timothy Leary began to preach the gospel
of LSD and left Harvard in search of disciples. He preached
that we could expand our minds, deepen our consciousness
and lift ourselves out of a mundane existence. We swallowed
it, hook, line, and sinker.
Hope that
does not Disappoint
Our
Master Yahshua: Dreamer
What's in a
Name
I had grown up in a society that had caused me
to question everything, but somehow I had never questioned
whether "Jesus" was really the Savior's name.
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