“A Hippie’s Dissertation, Circa Sept. 1972”
My argument is from what I have gathered from what I read—lived and learned. I spent a lot of time on background info. i have ceased to be I.
Our western society created new repressive problems for itself when the Industrial Revolution got into full swing in the early 1840s and up to 1900.
Because of these problems—maybe as a response to them—new thinkers emerged like: the Fabians, Marx, Hegel, Freud, Einstein, Thoreau, Walt Whitman, influenced by Blake, Eli Whitney, Darwin, & the Wright Bros. (Some were inventors, but they tried to alleviate some bad effects of the factory culture which was raised in fifty years.)... Faster experiences than any other time in history.
Darwin’s theory changed many heads. A new Age of Reason got into full swing. As a result, the so-called “counter culture” began, with roots with the “Goliards” of the latter Middle Ages.
No one likes to work in a crowded factory unless conditions are improved. Unions were organized. Unfortunately, because of the Civil War, Boxer Rebellion, Boer War, and World War 1, many people were literally forced to work under poor conditions. The “Wobblies” resulted, and they envisioned world-wide unions.
Colonialism, as we know, caused a lot of problems, too, viz., slavery and slave wages. Everyone, moreover, was amazed at the new inventions, like the car, and everyone wanted something as “newfangled” as their neighbor. Mass production replaced hand labor. Blimps and airplanes eventually replaced long trains to Alaska. Trains carried passengers, but mostly carried heavy freight. The first great age of the railroads ended in the 1950s.
Moreover, people needed new ways to cope with the problems caused by this hectic “array” of dimestore demand....The dimestore novel was invented. Horatio Alger, Jr., was one of those type authors... Phonograph records and radio captivated many audiences, too.
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One big problem was alienation from the environment. Other problems were social unrest, political radicalism & censorship. Special interest groups apparently were ‘successful’ at brainwashing the public with advertisements. There was the rise of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism which utilized propaganda. Governments added to problems by restricting, to some extent, the reading material of the public. Pornography was against the law. One was supposed to be pleased with one’s material values and at the same time forced to pray in the schools, de facto of course, for the fatherland. New highways bought up all the surrounding land promising great development of capital—just like the previous railroads—for ignorant small businessmen and locals. A person was supposed to be against anything which stood in the way of ‘progress’. The environment was ravaged by air and water pollution... ( Double- standard progress is as good as none at all. )
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After World War One, a ‘new’ Bohemian Culture came into affect which advocated new morals, votes for women, & better working conditions. But there was still much sexual repression and hypocrisy. A “Lost Generation” jazz age bohemian answer was to watch the river flow “get outta the bag and groove”. But then the 1920s were over and the Great Depression hit. Many people went from riches to rags overnight--folks hoboed around and were on the move... Then World War Two began... “Zoot Suiters” reacted to the draft and to Hitler and his phony race theories... We were on the move again...The repressive fascist Shinto regime in Japan took over the other half of the world...Communism had been around twenty-five years in power, and the world was scared half to death by the dropping of the atomic bombs. Conservative rightist malarkey was rampant after U. S. & the Allies won in World War Two...The “Ban the Bomb” movement began. We even ended up going to the Moon & beyond. Television was watched.
Many frustrated people grew up in the fifties and they reacted. The “Beatniks” or “Beat Generation” emerged along with “be-bop” and “ rock & roll” ...Beatniks believed in individual freedom—but not too much ‘freedom riding’, and were non-violent crusaders for ending “the power struggle of the Cold War”. Integration was their thing to do—ideas of “live and let live” were common. No one wanted to be a social change martyr if they could help it. The ‘underground press’ started at about the same time astronauts went to space.
Some persons involved in these changes were among these names: Kerouac, Owsley, Ginsberg, Leary, Lenny Bruce, Woody Guthrie, & Chuck Berry...They, and others, changed the heads of “bobby-socked” & “crew-cutted squares”. Cultural disobedience became blatant during the “free speech” movement... Okay, so then the “Hippies” came.
The religious fervor of beatnik mystics was switched over to the civil rights and anti-war movements with religious undertones. New religious mystics sprang up in earnest. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and his transcendental meditation, was one of them. Eckankar was another religious movement. Psychological research reached new heights culminating in Parapsychology—ESP. Social disobedience and disaffection were rampant and rightly so. Values were changed and quite a few of them stuck. See table below:
“The Last Hippie’s Alternative Tablo”
“Straight or Square”
1. Conform to status quo
2. Get a successful job
3. Improve your coffee break.
4. “Love thine own kind”.
5. Take things apart.
6. Study what is required.
7. Convert the world.
8. Do what you are told. .
9. Be square, turn off.
"Alternative"
1. Drop out & recreate
2. Liberate your body/mind/sex
3. Make jobs conform
4. Love everyone.
5. Put things together, innovate.
6. Study what's happening.
7. Know yourself & change your own backyard.
8. Remember what you learn.
9. Be there, turn on.
(Author’s note: I wrote the above for a humanities paper around September, 1972. I made some additions & corrections.The software would not allow me
to put the table in adjacent columns as it was in my notes.)
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Time to realize that freedom is not a joke,
Time to resurrect freedom without the mirrors and smoke,
Freedom is earned by the blood you've bled,
From the dreams you've yearned...
To these words I have now returned...
So read this across nearly forty years of time...
Do some of these words read sublime?
Are some words just simply absurd?
Or will these words really be heard?
Do these words still have worth?
Tell me if I still speak the truth.
Time to resurrect freedom without the mirrors and smoke,
Freedom is earned by the blood you've bled,
From the dreams you've yearned...
To these words I have now returned...
So read this across nearly forty years of time...
Do some of these words read sublime?
Are some words just simply absurd?
Or will these words really be heard?
Do these words still have worth?
Tell me if I still speak the truth.
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Postby zero_hero » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:00 am
“Straight or Square”
1. Conform to status quo
2. Get a successful job
3. Improve your coffee break.
4. “Love thine own kind”.
5. Take things apart.
6. Study what is required.
7. Convert the world.
8. Do what you are told. .
9. Be square, turn off.
"Alternative"
1. Drop out & recreate
2. Liberate your body/mind/sex
3. Make jobs conform
4. Love everyone.
5. Put things together, innovate.
6. Study what's happening.
7. Know yourself & change your own backyard.
8. Remember what you learn.
9. Be there, turn on.
Good copy on all that Steve
You distilled it down nicely
I think it is a poem
Some random personal observations where it relates I hope
I been a Wobbly(*) since I first read USA, and Three Soldiers. (dos passos)
Then World War Two began... “Zoot Suiters” reacted to the draft and to Hitler and his phony race theories... We were on the move again...The repressive fascist Shinto regime in Japan took over the other half of the world...Communism had been around twenty-five years in power, and the world was scared half to death by the dropping of the atomic bombs. Conservative rightist malarkey was rampant after U. S. & the Allies won in World War Two...The “Ban the Bomb” movement began. We even ended up going to the Moon & beyond. Television was watched.
That is where I pick up the story as my lived experience.
Still trying to sort out —what I have learned from reading and watching and listening to mass media—from my own memory of the times.
Yeah dig them zooters, jitterbugs with their pegged legged pants and zoot suits, " One of my dearest friends was a jitterbug. Crazy Mike called him "pleasure mad" because all he wanted to do was dance with girls and have a good time. But I was more serious, wanted to understand. I wanted knowledge, I thought that was the same as understanding.
It seems to me that if I can't love my own kind, than I will not be able to love everyone.
Turned on when I was thirty two. That was the year I finally dropped out of college. Mescaline and statistics, Lsd and cultural anthropology, and too much reading Nietzsche, and the Bible, and sex. Oh lordy, the sex. A kind of recognition, of knowing I was not going to be fruitful and multiply, the panic of that, my Jesus freak period, everything snapped together and I could see it all, God's plan for my life. Ha! Einstein say god don't shoot crap with the universe, but I have heard people in Copenhagen say that not only does god shoot dice with our fates, but also the dice is loaded.
Yeah in 1972 I was hippy too Steve. Trying to lay it all out in my dreams of the future. 1972 the year I blew my mind on LSD, Nietzsche, Jesus, and a little episode I call spider love. For thirty years I run the road scribbling the great american hyper-trash-text novel about drug crazed hippy sex. Now I am so grateful I got these little random text boxes to ramble in. I give up my pretenses, I been reading Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins, it makes me so humble. I know I would not make a pimple on Kerouac's ass, but I loves to ramble with my cyber pals
thanks steve good piece to riff on
Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen, excellent book, I read it in 1972 but it was about college life for women of the fifties. She wanted to understand it all too, drew a time line on her bedroom wall like The Out Line of History. by HGW.
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(*)disclaimer, unlike my hero Utah Phillips I have never been a card carrying member of the I.W.W. that was poetic license, just a wannabe wobbly, working class hero
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Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:23 pm
Zero Hero, Glad you enjoyed the poetic dichotomy at the end of the piece...
Long time to hang on to a particular theme. That was way back when
and this is now...Channngessss! I think political parties have a similar
dichotomy today! The split in the social and political consciousness has melded
a bit in some areas but widened the gap in others. Back in the day, we used
to call it a "Generation Gap".
Now it is more ideologies which are split, rather
than generations. I am hoping folks learn how to cooperate to get common
goals accomplished...
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:07 pm
"Get up offa that thing and dance and you'll feel better" -- James Brown
Hello out there, what's up with that!?
Is this a theme or what?
Did almost forty years improve the message?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1w0syylZI
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:39 am
Time to realize that freedom is not a joke,
Time to resurrect freedom without the mirrors and smoke,
Freedom is earned by the blood you've bled,
From the dreams you've yearned...
To these words I have now returned...
So read this across nearly forty years of time...
Do some of these words read sublime?
Are some words just simply absurd?
Or will these words really be heard?
Do these words still have worth?
Tell me if I still speak the truth.
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby mnaz » Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:52 pm
always meant to comment on this one. only now just getting around to it. a pretty astute and accurate summary and perspective.
seems we really are on quite a spike on the human timeline. so much more has happened in the last century than all centuries prior combined. or so it seems...
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:32 pm
Really appreciate the positive remarks on my old piece from 1972. It was edited
a bit, but pretty much the same as I wrote way back when...
Yes, mnaz, our inventions really have "spiked" in the past century. What worries me, and sometimes keeps me up at night, is that our social interaction between different sexes, races, classes, & religions has not kept pace with the new
inventions. Equality needs to be a reality especially when it comes to different
sexes, and sexual mores. We need ALL of humanity to continue our quest to
be good stewards of the Earth. We are not carbon copies of each other, however that is an advantage in our polyglot country. We have much in common
with the new Russia, which also has many ethnic groups. We need to forge ahead with partnerships with the new Russia. (On the other hand, I am quite wary of China and the muslim world. These folks have ruled the world before and may be a political, religious, and economic threat in the future. Their women must have an equal footing with the men. The orient has much to learn about democracy. I think Russia is learning...We agreed to co-exist.)
Inventions that I worry about are: the particle beam weapon, the portable atomic bomb, and the new body-armor suiit--which is literally like the "ironman" cartoons. I am also skeptical of automatic vehicles... Too much like "Bladerunner" by Phillip K. Dick.
(Planetary exploration could be enhanced by the above vehicles, like they have already.)
I revel in the invention of space travel and I think "ion drive" may be
the wave of the future. I have positive views of development of new anti-toxins, and vaccines. Medicine has really advanced during my lifetime. Then there
are the useful nanobots & robots, and of course, the GREAT internet. (I still have many skills to master when it comes to attachments and videos.)
I welcome any other comments you or anyone else might have.
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:34 am
"Velocity" is a key word which sticks with me along with "electricity".
In these words lie the future of psychic transportation as we may not
know it yet. "Carbon tetragammaton" elevators to the moon!
Cargo shipped near speed of light with benefits! Colonies on the moon &
mars! Shipments to Titan & Ganymede! Lithium crystals powering "ion
drive" tourist ships to the edge of the solar system...
Keep up the good inspirational "sci fi" for the soul.
All G-d's creation is blessed...
***
We live from moment to moment, planning as we go...
We are into the continuum, and we are yet tethered to the Earth...
(Thanks, for the LOL, on SooZen's thread, Arcadia. We are actually, Still Trucking, closer in physiology to cats than to dogs.) The amygdala is a curious part of the center of the brain, there lies the focus of our emotions...
(Thankful to you, SooZen, for your insight into focusing our minds...)
Yoga is really been helpful to me in emptying my thoughts before
I fall asleep...breathing excercises help me to relax. Words to the wiseguy...
Today's "inane" science fiction is tomorrow's promise. There has actually
been a "tethered elevator" proposed to take craft/cargo into space. It would
be made of a very strong and flexible cable & take advantage of magnetic
properties of the earth and yet unknown "electric plasma" power to utilize it. I saw the proposal on an episode of NOVA. "Ion drive" has already been utilized
and may be the spaceship power of the future. Onwardddd!
(Author's note: Portions of this section of impromptu essay were
taken from my posts, in a slightly different forum, on SooZen's "Moment to Moment" thread, in the "Culture, Politics, Philosophy" forum.)
Comments on the other version in Stories & Essays are closed. Please post on this version.
Postby zero_hero » Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:00 am
“Straight or Square”
1. Conform to status quo
2. Get a successful job
3. Improve your coffee break.
4. “Love thine own kind”.
5. Take things apart.
6. Study what is required.
7. Convert the world.
8. Do what you are told. .
9. Be square, turn off.
"Alternative"
1. Drop out & recreate
2. Liberate your body/mind/sex
3. Make jobs conform
4. Love everyone.
5. Put things together, innovate.
6. Study what's happening.
7. Know yourself & change your own backyard.
8. Remember what you learn.
9. Be there, turn on.
Good copy on all that Steve
You distilled it down nicely
I think it is a poem
Some random personal observations where it relates I hope
I been a Wobbly(*) since I first read USA, and Three Soldiers. (dos passos)
Then World War Two began... “Zoot Suiters” reacted to the draft and to Hitler and his phony race theories... We were on the move again...The repressive fascist Shinto regime in Japan took over the other half of the world...Communism had been around twenty-five years in power, and the world was scared half to death by the dropping of the atomic bombs. Conservative rightist malarkey was rampant after U. S. & the Allies won in World War Two...The “Ban the Bomb” movement began. We even ended up going to the Moon & beyond. Television was watched.
That is where I pick up the story as my lived experience.
Still trying to sort out —what I have learned from reading and watching and listening to mass media—from my own memory of the times.
Yeah dig them zooters, jitterbugs with their pegged legged pants and zoot suits, " One of my dearest friends was a jitterbug. Crazy Mike called him "pleasure mad" because all he wanted to do was dance with girls and have a good time. But I was more serious, wanted to understand. I wanted knowledge, I thought that was the same as understanding.
It seems to me that if I can't love my own kind, than I will not be able to love everyone.
Turned on when I was thirty two. That was the year I finally dropped out of college. Mescaline and statistics, Lsd and cultural anthropology, and too much reading Nietzsche, and the Bible, and sex. Oh lordy, the sex. A kind of recognition, of knowing I was not going to be fruitful and multiply, the panic of that, my Jesus freak period, everything snapped together and I could see it all, God's plan for my life. Ha! Einstein say god don't shoot crap with the universe, but I have heard people in Copenhagen say that not only does god shoot dice with our fates, but also the dice is loaded.
Yeah in 1972 I was hippy too Steve. Trying to lay it all out in my dreams of the future. 1972 the year I blew my mind on LSD, Nietzsche, Jesus, and a little episode I call spider love. For thirty years I run the road scribbling the great american hyper-trash-text novel about drug crazed hippy sex. Now I am so grateful I got these little random text boxes to ramble in. I give up my pretenses, I been reading Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins, it makes me so humble. I know I would not make a pimple on Kerouac's ass, but I loves to ramble with my cyber pals
thanks steve good piece to riff on
Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen, excellent book, I read it in 1972 but it was about college life for women of the fifties. She wanted to understand it all too, drew a time line on her bedroom wall like The Out Line of History. by HGW.
___________________________________________________
(*)disclaimer, unlike my hero Utah Phillips I have never been a card carrying member of the I.W.W. that was poetic license, just a wannabe wobbly, working class hero
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:23 pm
Zero Hero, Glad you enjoyed the poetic dichotomy at the end of the piece...
Long time to hang on to a particular theme. That was way back when
and this is now...Channngessss! I think political parties have a similar
dichotomy today! The split in the social and political consciousness has melded
a bit in some areas but widened the gap in others. Back in the day, we used
to call it a "Generation Gap".
Now it is more ideologies which are split, rather
than generations. I am hoping folks learn how to cooperate to get common
goals accomplished...
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:07 pm
"Get up offa that thing and dance and you'll feel better" -- James Brown
Hello out there, what's up with that!?
Is this a theme or what?Did almost forty years improve the message?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1w0syylZI
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:39 am
Time to realize that freedom is not a joke,
Time to resurrect freedom without the mirrors and smoke,
Freedom is earned by the blood you've bled,
From the dreams you've yearned...
To these words I have now returned...
So read this across nearly forty years of time...
Do some of these words read sublime?
Are some words just simply absurd?
Or will these words really be heard?
Do these words still have worth?
Tell me if I still speak the truth.
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby mnaz » Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:52 pm
always meant to comment on this one. only now just getting around to it. a pretty astute and accurate summary and perspective.
seems we really are on quite a spike on the human timeline. so much more has happened in the last century than all centuries prior combined. or so it seems...
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Sun Feb 27, 2011 4:32 pm
Really appreciate the positive remarks on my old piece from 1972. It was edited
a bit, but pretty much the same as I wrote way back when...
Yes, mnaz, our inventions really have "spiked" in the past century. What worries me, and sometimes keeps me up at night, is that our social interaction between different sexes, races, classes, & religions has not kept pace with the new
inventions. Equality needs to be a reality especially when it comes to different
sexes, and sexual mores. We need ALL of humanity to continue our quest to
be good stewards of the Earth. We are not carbon copies of each other, however that is an advantage in our polyglot country. We have much in common
with the new Russia, which also has many ethnic groups. We need to forge ahead with partnerships with the new Russia. (On the other hand, I am quite wary of China and the muslim world. These folks have ruled the world before and may be a political, religious, and economic threat in the future. Their women must have an equal footing with the men. The orient has much to learn about democracy. I think Russia is learning...We agreed to co-exist.)
Inventions that I worry about are: the particle beam weapon, the portable atomic bomb, and the new body-armor suiit--which is literally like the "ironman" cartoons. I am also skeptical of automatic vehicles... Too much like "Bladerunner" by Phillip K. Dick.
(Planetary exploration could be enhanced by the above vehicles, like they have already.)
I revel in the invention of space travel and I think "ion drive" may be
the wave of the future. I have positive views of development of new anti-toxins, and vaccines. Medicine has really advanced during my lifetime. Then there
are the useful nanobots & robots, and of course, the GREAT internet. (I still have many skills to master when it comes to attachments and videos.)
I welcome any other comments you or anyone else might have.
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa 1972
Postby Steve Plonk » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:34 am
"Velocity" is a key word which sticks with me along with "electricity".
In these words lie the future of psychic transportation as we may not
know it yet. "Carbon tetragammaton" elevators to the moon!
Cargo shipped near speed of light with benefits! Colonies on the moon &
mars! Shipments to Titan & Ganymede! Lithium crystals powering "ion
drive" tourist ships to the edge of the solar system...
Keep up the good inspirational "sci fi" for the soul.
All G-d's creation is blessed...
***
We live from moment to moment, planning as we go...
We are into the continuum, and we are yet tethered to the Earth...
(Thanks, for the LOL, on SooZen's thread, Arcadia. We are actually, Still Trucking, closer in physiology to cats than to dogs.) The amygdala is a curious part of the center of the brain, there lies the focus of our emotions...
(Thankful to you, SooZen, for your insight into focusing our minds...)
Yoga is really been helpful to me in emptying my thoughts before
I fall asleep...breathing excercises help me to relax. Words to the wiseguy...
Today's "inane" science fiction is tomorrow's promise. There has actually
been a "tethered elevator" proposed to take craft/cargo into space. It would
be made of a very strong and flexible cable & take advantage of magnetic
properties of the earth and yet unknown "electric plasma" power to utilize it. I saw the proposal on an episode of NOVA. "Ion drive" has already been utilized
and may be the spaceship power of the future. Onwardddd!
(Author's note: Portions of this section of impromptu essay were
taken from my posts, in a slightly different forum, on SooZen's "Moment to Moment" thread, in the "Culture, Politics, Philosophy" forum.)
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Re: A Hippie's Dissertation, Circa Sept. 1972
Yes, I have it on good authority that "you may petition the Lord with prayer".
It doesn't matter if you have torn or dirty clothes or ragged underwear.
The Lord will hear you through the concrete or the burning pines &
consider your petition. I believe my brother & sister-in-law's lives were
were saved by just such petitions of prayer. Their house burned, but they are ALIVE.
Read Psalm 118 & see that King David, of the Bible, also got some prayers answered.
G-d doesn't always answer prayers through the front doors...Sometimes G-d answers by other means through side windows. Always merry & bright...
It doesn't matter if you have torn or dirty clothes or ragged underwear.
The Lord will hear you through the concrete or the burning pines &
consider your petition. I believe my brother & sister-in-law's lives were
were saved by just such petitions of prayer. Their house burned, but they are ALIVE.
Read Psalm 118 & see that King David, of the Bible, also got some prayers answered.
G-d doesn't always answer prayers through the front doors...Sometimes G-d answers by other means through side windows. Always merry & bright...
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