I first featured that video for Lynda in 2009. In a follow-up post I linked to an essay that asked where the hell did they go? If we only had that kind of student uprising (for those very same hippies are now part of the status quo) we might take back control of this country (but I am not holding my breath).
I want to be optimistic enough to think that at some point, Americans will get pissed enough to do something like the Hippies of old did. Unfortunately, those very same Hippies, by and large, are now a part of the problem since they forgot what they fought for back in the day and now have taken up and replaced “The Man” that they once hated and rallied against. The Hippies ARE now “The Man”.
But is it too late? Do we still stand a chance of taking back this country from the Oligarchs?
I have my doubts, but Andrew has a point when he says in his post, “Save The Rich, Pay Your Taxes“:
It’s a pretty twisted state of affairs, but the masses still lie in a half-awake, half-asleep dreamlike state, convinced that the MSM practices genuine journalism, that there actually is a meaningful separation between the Republicans and Democrats, and that at least one of those parties actually represents the interests of ordinary Americans. And perhaps the worst part of it all is that, by some unfathomable mutation of logic and understanding, the most ignorant and politically uninformed Americans tend to be the most vocal, the most opinionated, the most unwilling to bend. How can ever hope to make any progress when we’re surrounded by people who actually believe corporations help America, that taxing the rich is a bad thing, that offering universal health care is an unthinkable evil?
The sad truth is that things will have to become far, far worse before we can have any hope of them getting better.
My reply to this last part was:
How much worse can it get for many millions already hurting? I would like to think that there will be some measure of anger that will culminate into some mass citizen education and uprising. But, I cannot, for the life of me, understand just how bad it would need to get to overcome the brainwashing. I would have thought we would have met that critical mass already.
All of this takes me back to a current discussion on this post, where we have come to the real nut to cut: When do we hit the beach?
My personal opinion is that there is absolutely no way we could ever get enough people to understand, much less fight against the power-elite that own and control everything in this country, including the military and police forces. I believe that an armed revolt is simply mass suicide.
No, as I wrote in one of my responses, I believe we have a much better chance of unarmed revolution simply by not participating in the game any more. I believe that it would be infinitely easier to convince people of a non-violent revolution than a violent one, when critical mass is met. Sure, it might take even more hardships to get a mass of people to agree and participate, but like I said, I would have already thought we were there. I mean, I am hurting. Almost everyone I know is feeling the pain. How bad must it get before people wake up from their slumber and do what James Corbett suggests (and I have been, too, for quite some time) in his latest blog post:
The Only Way to Win the Game is Not to Play
When we pull back from the geopolitical grand chessboard we find that it is in fact one player, the global financial elite, playing both sides. Whether you root for black or white, the elite will win in the end. In the face of such a false choice, the only real choice is not to choose at all.
Surely we can’t condone the bombing of Libyan civilians, and it makes no sense to side with a brutal communist dictatorship that enforces one child policies with forced abortions and harvests the organs of its prisoners. So we must identify ourselves as not being on either side. Depending where we live, who we work for, and how we spend our money, we may be tied to one side or the other, whether financially or socially, but that does not mean that we must continue to give our allegiance to any of these global power players in their Machiavellian manipulations of the planet.
Although it may not be as fundamentally satisfying to us as human beings, geared as we are to confrontation and battle as a way of resolving our problems, the best thing we can do is in fact to ignore the big players all together, withdraw ourselves from their system, and begin constructing our own self-sufficient communities. Everyday we make a conscious decision of our own free will to shop at their stores, to bank at their banks, and to eat the foods they process in their factories. With changes in lifestyle, we can detach ourselves from all of their levers of control over our lives and at the exact same time starve their war machine of the funds and the support that it needs to function.
As others have pointed out time and again, every community garden, every farmer’s market, every solar panel, every community currency, every neighborhood mutual aid society is a monkey wrench in the plans for the global war and a nail in the coffin of the ambitions of the globalists.
Unhooking ourselves from the system that is oppressing us is not an easy task, nor will it be an overnight one, but it seems that time is running out before the elite manipulate us into another big war. The consequences of a third world war, doubtless a nuclear one, are horrific. The elite are hoping to bring about this conflict in order to create a new, further centralized, truly global system of government from the ashes of the old world order. But they need our support in order to do it.
Let’s not give it to them.
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They all sold out and choke on a big corporate cock every day like the worthless sacks of shit they are.
Posted by Archie Bunker | April 20, 2011, 10:28 amI’ve posted this article here before. I think it best answers the question WHERE ARE THE HIPPIES? When the Iraq invasion started, and eventually when the facts were brought out, where we learned we had all been had by all the lies that led to the wars, i thought these former protestors would come back out and that the ground would tremble as they came forth.
But they didn’t come back. In fact, they more or less was in total support of the wars. Well, fuck them all!! Here is their story below.
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THE LAMEST GENERATION
You have had the best possible ride anyone could ever have had.
Because you were born after the “New Deal” had become a done deal, you enjoyed incredible opportunities. Thanks to the Fair Labor Standards Act, you didn’t have to work yourselves into the ground for a subpar wage. You could actually live on what you made. And thanks to widespread unionization, even if you were in a non-union shop, you still got taken care of better-because a good employee might have jumped to a union shop if he or she wasn’t treated well. Your parents, who suffered through both a horrible Depression and then a devastating war, did everything in their power to make sure that you never had to suffer what they had gone through. The post-WWII era saw American opportunity for everyone who was willing to work for the chance, including minorities and women in due time.
Imagine never having had to worry about where the money for the bills was going to come from! Imagine never having had to worry about getting laid off! Imagine knowing that your company pension was going to give you a nice cushion to retire on, on top of your Social Security! Yes, that’s what you had. For minimal effort on your part, a hell of a lot of you enjoyed cradle-to-grave security.
Unfortunately, it would seem that in way too many of you, this also bred a sense of entitlement. That sense of entitlement first showed up in the 1960s, when so many of you pretended to be “peaceniks.” We know now that you really weren’t all that into peace, but you WERE into saving your own asses from Viet Cong bullets. As soon as you got old enough to not have to worry about fighting in wars anymore, you started spouting right wing jargon. But becoming born-again militant wasn’t all you were into, not by a long shot. In spite of the fact that you lived in a society where opportunity abounded, many of you resented having to CONTRIBUTE to the society. TAXES?!? That’s MY money!!! Taxes is COMMANISM!!! Unions? They cut into the quarterly dividends! Do AWAY with them! Social programs? Let people pull THEMSELVES up! No more GUBMINT handouts!!! And you voted for people who pandered to your wish to have everything and pay nothing, which is why we’re now in a situation where deficit spending is through the ceiling while services are collapsing. But YOU got YOURS, right? No, not really. You got a hell of a lot of MINE, too, for years to come.
That sort of sums you up in toto. YOU GOT YOURS. You did that by dismantling a system that wasn’t perfect, but was improving all the time, and had actually produced a pretty good life for a large number of us. You didn’t really care if what your beloved Saint Ronnie was selling was actually going to work or not; all you cared about was that the society that had done so much for you be dismantled so that none could hope to achieve what you had. You happily went along with the Rushpubliscums while they dismantled labor and environmental protections that had worked for decades, because YOU got YOURS, and it didn’t really matter to YOU anymore. You smiled while CEO pay skyrocketed, and the pension funds were robbed of every last time they could steal from them, because a great number of YOU are on GUBMINT pensions-a sickeningly large number of you. You deliberately, willfully consigned your children and grandchildren to struggles you never had to face, because…. YOU got YOURS, so who gives a damn if THEY don’t? Those inflated stocks paid off just fine for YOU, when everything got outsourced and offshored. The kids can’t find a job? Too bad for THEM, right?
That brings me to another little boiling point of mine. I don’t know how many of you I’ve heard whining about a kid or grandkid of yours who just keeps coming back like a boomerang because he or she can’t find a job, or they get outsourced not long after they land one. Since YOU managed to work the same job for 30 or 35 years, you just can’t “understand” why THEY have so much trouble. If someone points out to you (quite correctly, I might add) that it is because of your hero politicians that the kids are having such a hard time nowadays, you turn instantly deaf, or respond with some stupid talking point your dope addict hero taught you to say. You have been so blinded by your selfishness that there is no reaching you. You have become so accustomed to getting something for nothing that you have no qualms about stealing it from your grandkids, and then whining about them not making it as well as you did.
When the history of this country is written, your generation-the generation of Chimpy, Cheney, Gingrich, DeLay, Bunning, McConnell, Cornyn, and countless other useless leeches will be seen as having performed one of the most rapid destructions of a society in history. People will wonder how it was that the kids of Depression-era people could be so selfish, so stupidly blind, and so callous, and there won’t be any answers that make any sense. Instead of honoring the sacrifices your parents made, you spit on them, and got in line behind that original chickenhawk, Saint Ronnie, to middle-finger a once-great society. Since none of you had to sacrifice anything in your lives, it seems that you don’t appreciate anything either.
How do I know this? I am, as a matter of fact, one of those “pull yourself up” people you are always blabbering about. I came from what could charitably be called humble circumstances, and my early years on my own were no party; I made little choices like paying for a gallon of milk and stiffing the electric company a few dollars that month. I didn’t come from comfortable surroundings, and I didn’t get a ride from mommy and daddy to go party at college. I am everything you say you admire; I got where I got on my own, and I never asked anybody for anything. I did commit the grave sin of accepting help from the WIC program for my kids, but that’s about it. I worked, and I showed people that I had something on the ball, and I got people to train me, and pay for training me, and I got something of a decent middle class life out of it. But let me tell you what I didn’t get out of it; I didn’t get the idea that I should feel like I’m better than other people are. I didn’t get scared to death that somebody might take some of MY money and use it on THEM. I am grateful for having had the opportunity to make something halfway decent out of myself, and I’d like to expand those opportunities to other people. If you have to take some of my tax receipts to do that, you know that’s not a bad thing; the better educated younger people get, the more comfortable my declining years are going to be, and the more viable my society will be. It’s kind of a win-win for everybody, and all it takes is everybody chipping in here and there. I also don’t mind paying for those bridges, and those overpasses, and those highways. The better the infrastructure is, the easier I get around, and the easier commerce in general is. I realize that turning the highways and the schools into for-profit ventures isn’t to my advantage, because those in charge of the highways and the schools will try to wring every dime out of the systems that they can without actually having to invest anything in them. Government was made to take care of things like these, where profit makes no sense. I see the return on my tax dollars when I see educated kids, and I see safe highways. Tell me what I see when Paris Hilton’s taxes are lower than even mine are.
That’s what makes me maddest of all about you selfish pigs. You know what America used to be like, and you saw the damage done under Saint Ronnie and Pere Chimpy, but you STILL can’t stand the idea that YOUR money might be used to help anyone else the way that the money of others was used to help YOU, so you have happily dismantled America. The “American Dream” is dead, and I don’t think it will ever be revived, but all of that is just fine with you, since you’ll be dead before too much longer anyway and you won’t be held accountable for what you’ve done. My children will be held accountable, but YOU won’t.
You are truly The Lamest Generation. I know that what I’ve said here doesn’t apply to all of you, and I want to apologize to any of you that it doesn’t apply to. The rest of you, though…. you can all kiss my ass. This country has never seen worse than you, and the sooner you get marginalized in politics, the better off we’ll all be.
Posted by "B" WAVES | April 20, 2011, 12:17 pmWhen people come to the realization that taxes = stealing your life..then maybe things will start to click in the heads of the sleeping masses. I mean really…isnt that why this country was started in the first place? Werent our forfathers sick of having their lives stolen from them for the benefit of the rich elite? Our ‘taxes’ our lives, are used by the elites for their our reason, for their own benefit…not ours. NO? Then tell me the last time you directly benefited from being taxed. Our social service are being cut, they will be cut more as the dollar declines and debt rises. Poice ,firedepartments get cut. Schools get cut or taxes rise to fund them. They should already be funded , yet we got trillions to WASTE on war……..
I could go on about this stupidity..I wont. It has to end. Step outside the box, the prison,the lie…stop supporting it.
Posted by This is not my America | April 20, 2011, 9:11 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senators-chinese-junket-is-shrouded-in-secrecy/2011/04/19/AFhndp7D_story.html
The key domino in getting the world to accept a global fractional reserve currency is China.
Don’t misunderstand, global currency is 100% suicide and will lead to an effective one world government by the oligarch banking families.
The private central bank in China is rumored to be 50/50 rather than 100% Rothschild owned as it is in the other 192 of 197 countries. Therefore, it is slighly harder to implement the private fractional reserve global currency in China than elsewhere in the Rothschild empire, excluding Iran, Sudan, North Korea and Cuba.
George Soros (Swartz) has the job of selling the Evelyn Rothschild (Bauer) plan for defacto global autocracy as instead being the salvation of the economic crisis.
event – reaction – solution
debt suffocation – fear of devaluation – global fractional reserve currency (world government)
Once the China domino falls, the door will be wide open to implement a private global currency in 193 countries. It will be touted as “gold backed” instead of “fiat”, but actually will only be fractionally gold backed at less than 1:100.
More importantly it will be a private currency – meaning that Rothschild and the oligarch banking families will be able to create money autocratically with out input from the people of the world who use it.
This ‘gold backed’, fractional reserve, private global currency will be lent out to governments and individuals with usury. Thus ensuring literal debt slavery from cradle to grave for individuals and countries.
As the life blood of any society, Rothschild will hold everyone and every country in the palm of his hand. And once implemented, anyone who dares to oppose him can be taken off the grid with the flick of a key stroke.
Worse than heroin. As bad as cancer. Manifest dictatorship disguised as “economic freedom”. Orwellian doublespeak – 100%.
Don’t do it, ever.
Posted by Mouser | April 21, 2011, 2:38 amYup , the ditry fucking hippies were right…thats why they were and are marginalised, demonised,cornered and caged for their use of cannabis. The one drug that lets you stand back and look at the world behind the veil and say”What a shit hole this has become!” The world players couldnt have people standing around speaking of peace and spreading that message…not if these world plaayers were to use us as their fodder to advance their power and control in the world.
Weed is the one thing that doesnt need be created in a lab , so it would be easy for all to consume and part take in its peaceful movement to change the world….
Sad that it was snuffed out as it was…maybe nam would have ended sooner. Maybe we wouldnt have the horrors of war that we have today.
Posted by This is not my America | April 21, 2011, 8:37 am