Actually, it was punk -- not hippie culture -- that opened space for women and homosexuals. Let's not pretend that hippies were anything more than a white heterosexual male dominated group. Sure, they talked a good game, but what female rock stars were there? Only the ones assigned to traditional feminine roles of singer and singer/songwriter. And where are they gay musicians in the hippie movement? Silenced.
What's weird is I am a 21 year old African America female from a very conservative suburb and I have never conformed to my surroundings. I do my own thing and I think that is how you get the most out of life. Peers were shocked when they found out I have tripped out on acid but I wouldn't go into details because its literally something the mind is not capable of understanding unless one has experienced it. Not a hippie but I respect their moral and ethic code all the way. Paz y amor !
Hahaha.. Everywhere I go I see discontent with the current state and nostalgia for a legendary time of change and revolution.. We can bring it back. Its entirely within our power to do so.. People need to realize that we can bring it back
i remember when this happend it changed us all man alot of bad things happend back then now i just feel like im old because people sit here and watch videos of the things iv done man wow im old damn..........
@Toro953 Even though I've had my share of positive DMT and mushroom experiences I have to say that drugs aren't necessarily the saviours of mankind. They can be, they certainly have the potential to contribute to mankind (opiates in pain treatment, psychedelics in psychotherapy etc.) but they can also cause serious harm (addiction, also see MKULTRA). That holds true for every drug from weed to PCP: Remeber there are no good drugs and no bad drugs just good and bad ways to use them.
I miss the great movement to! Please Look at my channel, I specifically made a channel, to start an uproar and bring back the love and happiness of the Hippie movement!
This was really interesting, but I think perhaps this documentary should be titled, "The Trip: A History Of Drugs In Mainstream America", or something, as that's what most of this was about. Also, hippies were, like, kind of anti-technology...and this is saying they're the reason we have computers/internet...that doesn't sound so hippie-ish to me. But "The seeds that the flower children had sewn in America"...that's a good line. A lot of this was really good, so thank you for posting!!! :)
Keep in mind, George Bush and his pals were right there too, 18 to 20 years old when this all went down, So if you don't like him... be aware that the Hippies have been THE MOST wasteful, destructive, over-consumptive, self-indulgent, hypocritical generation that has ever existed! I'm sure that nearly all of you vehemently disagree but at least I'm not the one in "denial". The nostalgia sickens me, we need to get off our asses to help the next generation fix the global mess that we left them !
I was there... it was hogwash, self-indulgent, naive and narcissistic. a fruitless cultural phenomena lead by hypocrites who on one hand ranted about peace, love and humility and on the other indulged in as much as anyone in the perks that the "establishment" had to offer. Every rock-band as culpable in that era, or do you get the picture?! Wake up folks, Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, these are the real "Hippies" of history and they didn't need LSD to get them there !!!!
i wish ppl would realize that u can abuse anything even alcohol aint that bad its when u abuse it and drink too much u have to pace ur self with anything
today's "hippies" are unauthentic and unoriginal. Their music sucks too. Back in these days, the musicians took lessons when they were kids, not just hard drugs when they were adults.
@bilbosilbo Actually, Generation X did a lot to reveal the misogyny and homophobia in the white boy rock and roll of the hippies and what follows. Gen X decided (unlike the the hippies) that Do-It-Yourself was better than the consumerism/wealth accumulation that the ex-hippies advocated. The problem is not the generation you come from, but YOU. Why didn't you try to understand and empathize with your own generation instead of loathing them. This history of hippies is skewed in their favor.
@VioletDeliriums Don't hurt yourself while patting yourself on the back... "Hippies" and progressives dragged Gen X-ers kicking and screaming through the "I got mine eff you" post war period...
i always say terms like 'far out' and 'righteouss' and do the whole 'pot head and acid' thing and i might be a slight conformist to the hippie culture etc. but atleast i made the desiscion on my own cuz i dont know anyone else where i grow up like me. hell youtube is the one thing that connects me to people like me. but im just a white suburb kid so i could be a poser who knows. im just hanging out with life, not surviving it. whatever that means. haha
What a bunch of revisionist bull crap from the "War" channel. I'm 59 years old. I was there and in the middle of it and it was way better than what these jerks at the history channel have tried to make it out to be.
The 1960's was a big party that right wingers were not invited to. They have never gotten over that snub and this is 40 year old sour grapes on their part.
I was gonna watch this but then I forgot what i was doing and went and stared at the sun for a bit,then I had a veggie burger and then i got stoned and fell asleep.
WOODSTOCK WAS THE HIPPIES LAST MESSAGE OF PEACE TO THE EARTH! WE ARE STILL HERE AND STILL GIVING MESSAGES . TOO BAD MOST OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION DOESN'T LISTEN! PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL!
@BluesHarp60 the hip hop generation started two stop the violence movements. & contrary to what so called "popular rap artist's' portray. the hip hop scene IS the neo- beatnick, jazz, hippie, afrocentric, information generation. hip means you know something most are not keen to, & hop means you put it into action. hip hop. not hip pop, thats mtv. just sayin.. the kids listened & put there own post reagan slant on it. example of concious hip hop, krs-one stop the violence. good tune
the Image of the young guy putting a flower on the bayonet of the Cop made me cry! Thats what we anted to do back then create a new World ruled by Peace. The stupid Drug Addicts took that away from us! Not all of the Hippies were on multiple drugs!
The problem here was that hippies forgot the true meaning of their movement, which is Peace and Love. And yes, it is a utopian idea to believe that we could all live in peace in this world as long as money occupies Love's place in our hearts... as it's always been.
some of the "hippies" started making money later on......then they lost their "ethics" and ideals. Money ruins it man. For real. You cant be a true "hippie" and stick to yr values and ethics if yr a Beemer drivin' entrepreneur . We are supposed to feel and give and CARE about all people. Money really changes it ALL. Eat the rich.
@Toro953 the baby boomers became pussies in the end and now just want everyone to say no to drugs while they drink alchohol and smoke ciggarettes, just go with it became just say no. they make it harder for people like us because they sold out and became old and conservative. but i agree certain drugs can save this world
@PYTHONONLY Yeah, not cool. I'm SO glad that that sort of thing doesn't happen anymore, or doesn't very much at the very least. I did have some douche call me a baby killer once when I got home from Iraq. I told him his was next LOL. Hippies are cool, old hippies, modern "Hippies", in general. I find it very hard to hate them. I tried, trust me, but I just can't.
@1dread2dread Oh boy, yet ANOTHER idiot that wants to tell me how they can conduct a war.... First off, you have no clue who I am. You know I fought in Iraq in 2004. That's it. No clue where I have been, the things I have been through, the things I have done, and what my beliefs in anything are. Yet, you think you can judge me. I don't stand in judgement of you. I think if you believe what you just said you are an idiot.
@1dread2dread I assume you never served in the military. I can assume this because your presented belief tells me the military wouldn't be something you'd do. Now, I don't fault that. If it's against who you are, then that is what it is. You're free to be that, as well as free to tell me I should be spat on. By The Way, you're WELCOME, I'd do it again any time. Did I realize that the Iraq War was wrong? Yes, once I saw how much money was being sucked out of that place, and American Tax Payers.
@1dread2dread As for our killing civilians. NO Soldier I served with KNOWINGLY and PURPOSEFULLY killed a civilian. Nor would they have. HAVE civilians been killed by combat? Yes, and in some of my fights, civilians were killed. Was it something done deliberately? No. Nobody liked the fact that it happens either. War is ugly and messy. You can't have it clean. And I say those that have done so deliberately should be punished harshly.
@1dread2dread If you saw all the car bombs, by Iraqi's, I have seen ruining lives and families, making the most horrible mess that the worst horror movie ever made could not top this, then you would know that the total deaths in that war for Iraqi Civilians were caused mainly by insurgents and terrorists, their own people. They would do this and say to the rest of Iraq "See what the Americans did". As if my being there forced him to blow up 23 people.
@PhunkyMunky76 In the decade since 9/11, the United States has conquered and occupied two large Muslim countries (Afghanistan and Iraq), compelled a huge Muslim army to root out a terrorist sanctuary (Pakistan), deployed thousands of Special Forces troops to numerous Muslim countries (Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, etc.), imprisoned hundreds of Muslims without recourse,
@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
@1dread2dread I don't decide National Policy. And, you have yet to address the issue of car bombs, shootings, rapes, and other such things MUSLIMS do to their own. Not all, but the ones creating the carnage you see on the news are doing this. No American Service Member I have ever served with has done any of those things, yet, I should be the one spat on. By The Way, apparently it's appalling that in a war, a child gets killed. Yet, it's perfectly fine to kill them in the womb. Nice.
@PhunkyMunky76 Hypocritical thought like this has destroyed this country. By The Way. Have I mentioned that I will NEVER pick a rifle up EVER AGAIN for this Government? Because I won't. I won't kill for Corporations and bullshit agenda. This is why I believe ALL of our troops need to be here at home. No overseas bases of any sort whatsoever. No need for them! We need to start refusing to help the UN with anything at all, unless they're not only footing the bill but the lives.
@PhunkyMunky76 Why are Muslims Angry? Because they hate infidels! Why else? They don't give a rip about anything else. All they care is that Infidels be killed. Why do you think they have such a beef with Israel? Do I care that they want to kill Infidels? No. They can kill them all they like, in their own country. Not my problem. But don't come to MY country and blow shit up. That's where I have a problem with "Angry Muslims".
@PhunkyMunky76 Granted, WE caused the problem in the first place, but I personally didn't. If you live in the United States, then you are just as at blame as I am. I don't believe in Socialism either. I believe that what a person makes for their work they should get to keep. My money shouldn't go to take care of someone else. I believe if I have the talent and smarts to make myself rich, then I should reap the rewards of that, as should everyone else that works for it.
@PhunkyMunky76 And I believe the Government has no business in my personal life. They need to take care of things like, oh, I don't know, our Debt, rather than worry about what I am doing. Or you. Or anybody else.
@PhunkyMunky76 What the 1980s revealed was the hippies DO NOT believe in socialism. What they believed in was accumulation of personal wealth and hedonism -- as your "hero" Steve McJobs (look up the word "McJob" if unfamiliar) exemplifies. It is clear that hippies require a hierarchy to operate, for every protest is an organized effort with leaders to set it up rather than individual subversion. That fit quite nicely into the tyrannical corporate world. Conspicuous consumerism is not the answer.
@VioletDeliriums I agree, resourcefulness and doing for yourself is the answer, as long as we have Manufacturing in this Country. We don't, and so therefore no jobs or steady economy. Can't keep buying when you don't have a pay check.
@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
@1dread2dread I wonder how many civilians the VC and NVA killed? It irritates me that some people look at those of us that have served as "Idiots", "Morons", "Drug Crazed Killers". Nothing is further from the truth. We are living, thinking, feeling human beings. There are as many reasons for joining as there are people in the military. Some even feel as you do. Be well.
I so so hope that in the near future...the word "drugs" loses favor and 2 new terms replace it. Psilocybin and LSD and marijuana have nothing...absolutely nothing...to do with alcohol and cocaine and heroin and the others. We need two classes of drugs and two approaches to them. Alcohol, cigarettes, and so many other legal and prescribed drugs ruin lives. LSD, mushrooms, and pot do NOT ruin lives...they open people up to their inner potential in the deepest way possible. Oh well...
@avedic i love acid just as much as the next hippie but ive seen first hand where people have had permanent trips from acid, now im not saying that doesnt have the potential to be very groovy, but i do believe being able to come down and function regularly would be even groovier
@djmonico41 True enough. I just think the damage from LSD...compared to the damage from, say, oxycodone...is pretty skewed in one direction. Psychedelics seem to be incredible catalysts for true conscious growth. I used to be a skeptic...but after one psilocybin experience in the woods...I was absolutely left in awe. I had no IDEA human consciousness could even DO that. The key, of course, is moderation. The people who burnout on perma-trips generally abhor moderation...
@djmonico41 that means there acid was not clean. pure LSD stops effecting the mind, body connection after it has taken its course through the system. id blame that on shotty street chemistry. watch hoffmans potion. great doc on LSD it has some cool clinical studies and has interviews with Dr. Hoffman the godfather of LSD.
@avedic LSD is a seriously dangerous drug if u got underlying psychological problems. It WONT help, only make it worse. If you aren't a total screw up going under the stamp, you should be ok. Hell, it could be fun. And I would agree with you on the pot if peeps were smoking 60s pot. The grass today has been made way to potent.
@mightydagon The fact that it may be dangerous to those with underlying psychological problems is reason to legalize it...so it is used safely as possible. As for pot, one point to remember...the higher potency allows the user to smoke less and get the same effect. Lower potency marijuana has to be smoked more to get the same effect. Smoking anything is dangerous, so if anyone is worried about that, just eat it. :)
@avedic drug comes from the word druga, which means dried plant. so i am ok with calling weed a drug. but i am not ok with narcotics being called drugs lol
I'm all for freedom to do what you want behind closed doors. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll! But kids out of wedlock, stealing off the back of Safeway trucks and living life without "ANY" limitations is just flat out destructive!
What happened to the Hippie culture?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
The execution of their beliefs was not well thought out, BUT those views and beliefs are without a doubt truly inspirational. I hope to one day be a part of something so important and controversial
@rscl1243 look up the rainbow gathering. it happens every year. a moneyless peace loving society that gathers once a year in a diff part of the world for a month or so and at the last day thousands of people hold hands and meditate on peace in a huge circle. its awesome! and it has been going on since the 60s hippies did not die they just expanded into many diff cultures. and the rainbow gathering has lots of those groups come out every year.
excellent nutural documentory. nice to know that it's still ok to be a hippy or should i say still appriciate the values of lifestyle and understand a bit more about where it originates . i have not done drugs for years i also do not condone them. but before anyone out there who puys the sixties purly down to drugs, first stop and think about what came out of this generation. sometimes it's benifical to to stop and think! this fundimental human skills is so badly undervauled.
is it me, or this documentary has very serious ultraconservative undertones??? Sure, there were serious bad effects of drugs implicit in the hippy culture, but the hippy movement was a lot more than drugs..
@alejita1679 I think you are correct...conservative undertones. I was raised by hippies, and while drugs were around, there was a lot more to it than that. In any case, what movies like this don't show is that the majority of us kids who were raised by hippies have become quite successful (I was raised in Haight-Ashbury). As far as law-breaking is concerned, the only laws we occasionally broke (and still break) are those related to marijuana and mushroom use.
@alejita1679 - I wouldn't call it undertones. They are trying pretty hard to demonize hippies . I can only laugh at the very lame Richard Brookheiser being used as a source. Why didn't they just ask J.Edgar Hoover or Nixon what they thought about hippies.
@iokyui the execution was awesome, the black panthers- watch all power to the people, womens rights movement was the hippie movement before the guys stoped being squares. baba ram das- read be here now, the early early stages of the weatherman group. the only thing that really brought down the movement was counter inteligence program created by the FBI.. all the agent provocatuers that were running around making all the movements look bad and or just killing all the grassroots leaders.
@RnDnproductions we can always use more man, Fight With Love, were in more severe circumstances right now and the more love we have the better off we are, MMMMMMMMMMMMM LSD :D
Excellent documentary. First time I was made to realize the positive practical impact of the Hippie Movement in the form of, among other results, the personal computer and the internet. Good soundtracking here too, along with some in-depth information on the shape and flow of the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s. An insightful historical presentation well worth the time to observe is here presented.
“We were doing what the early Christians did." What a bunch of nonsense! The early Christians worshiped Jesus nt earth. u diot! Early Christians died 2 spread the Gospel 2 the world, nt sit on their butt n contribute nothing 2 society. Early Christians weren't promiscuous. Early Christians honored human life, nt demand they b murdered in the womb. Early Christians honored marriage, nt share partners. Early Christians raised godly children, nt careless children. u dont rep. us. thanks Jesus.
@madmandable-My spelling has nothing to do with what someone else is capable of doing. bring a more substantial argument. And for ur info, English is my 3rd language, and i speak 5 other languages. how many do u speak? just English? good for u! Maybe if ur mother didnt raise u smelling flowers and walking around naked in the 60s, who knows u could have probably spoken more than 1 language. never mind, i doubt it :)
@HelloWorld1947 I wasn't born in the sixties I aws born in the early ninties. You must realize though that any argument seems weak when you forget that words need vowels.
@HelloWorld1947 maybe you should look up the early christians. before you go saying all this right wing crap... the cult of christ before it was a established religion was a crazy bunch of drug using woman raping earth loving pagans. so was jesus. but you wont read that in any bible because they are all revised VERSIONS of the bible. show me a bible that is not someone else's version.... you cant! and even if you could you could not read it bcus its written in aramic.
@mightydagon They could have done without the drugs? The hippies came to be exclusivley as a result of alternative thinking and knowledge gained from drugs- lsd and marijuana in particular.
This is one of the most interesting documentaries I've seen form the history channel. I like how it shows all the angles of the peeps who lived during the time. The hippies were a great idea done the wrong way in my opinion. They could have done without the drugs and unbound hedonism. And the view of how it affected the kids of these people hit right on.
Actually, it was punk -- not hippie culture -- that opened space for women and homosexuals. Let's not pretend that hippies were anything more than a white heterosexual male dominated group. Sure, they talked a good game, but what female rock stars were there? Only the ones assigned to traditional feminine roles of singer and singer/songwriter. And where are they gay musicians in the hippie movement? Silenced.
VioletDeliriums 1 day ago
@VioletDeliriums go read howl
1dread2dread 11 hours ago
What's weird is I am a 21 year old African America female from a very conservative suburb and I have never conformed to my surroundings. I do my own thing and I think that is how you get the most out of life. Peers were shocked when they found out I have tripped out on acid but I wouldn't go into details because its literally something the mind is not capable of understanding unless one has experienced it. Not a hippie but I respect their moral and ethic code all the way. Paz y amor !
pinkforeverlove1 2 weeks ago 2
This made me cry when first watching it on History 2
52wbending52 2 weeks ago
Hahaha.. Everywhere I go I see discontent with the current state and nostalgia for a legendary time of change and revolution.. We can bring it back. Its entirely within our power to do so.. People need to realize that we can bring it back
Toro953 2 weeks ago
Its gonna happen again. This time you have the knowledge of corruption. And health through Raw Foods. Lets make it happen now
kONflictOD 2 weeks ago 2
i remember when this happend it changed us all man alot of bad things happend back then now i just feel like im old because people sit here and watch videos of the things iv done man wow im old damn..........
dougie93live 2 weeks ago
If somebody could tell me the name of the song starting at 1:23:11 I would really grateful :)
HaxUK 2 weeks ago
whats the song at 0:30 its a nice guitar rift
luckofthehamster 2 weeks ago
thank you, enjoyed this enormousely. peace and love
philoza1000 3 weeks ago
Peoplle act like hippies don't still exist anymore,im one,so are you,you just don't see it yet,give peace a chance?
ThElectricProduction 1 month ago
hey I have an idea, let's bring back psychedelia
watch?v=cQinxOrGoyM
binjin123 1 month ago
@Toro953 Even though I've had my share of positive DMT and mushroom experiences I have to say that drugs aren't necessarily the saviours of mankind. They can be, they certainly have the potential to contribute to mankind (opiates in pain treatment, psychedelics in psychotherapy etc.) but they can also cause serious harm (addiction, also see MKULTRA). That holds true for every drug from weed to PCP: Remeber there are no good drugs and no bad drugs just good and bad ways to use them.
kenzoalexanderfujii 1 month ago 2
I miss the great movement to! Please Look at my channel, I specifically made a channel, to start an uproar and bring back the love and happiness of the Hippie movement!
~Flower Power~
TheHippieScottie 1 month ago
Thanks for this, really enjoyed it.
3li0tZ 1 month ago
where and when did the hippie movement actually begin? (:
FiliGL 1 month ago
I was born in the wrong era; I want to be a beatnik/hippie so badly...!
No one understands now-days. It's so depressing.
ProdigiousHdawg 1 month ago
This was really interesting, but I think perhaps this documentary should be titled, "The Trip: A History Of Drugs In Mainstream America", or something, as that's what most of this was about. Also, hippies were, like, kind of anti-technology...and this is saying they're the reason we have computers/internet...that doesn't sound so hippie-ish to me. But "The seeds that the flower children had sewn in America"...that's a good line. A lot of this was really good, so thank you for posting!!! :)
ProdigiousHdawg 1 month ago
Keep in mind, George Bush and his pals were right there too, 18 to 20 years old when this all went down, So if you don't like him... be aware that the Hippies have been THE MOST wasteful, destructive, over-consumptive, self-indulgent, hypocritical generation that has ever existed! I'm sure that nearly all of you vehemently disagree but at least I'm not the one in "denial". The nostalgia sickens me, we need to get off our asses to help the next generation fix the global mess that we left them !
OSTUTZO 1 month ago
I was there... it was hogwash, self-indulgent, naive and narcissistic. a fruitless cultural phenomena lead by hypocrites who on one hand ranted about peace, love and humility and on the other indulged in as much as anyone in the perks that the "establishment" had to offer. Every rock-band as culpable in that era, or do you get the picture?! Wake up folks, Jesus, Buddha, St. Francis, Mother Theresa, Gandhi, these are the real "Hippies" of history and they didn't need LSD to get them there !!!!
OSTUTZO 1 month ago
please tell me whats the song in 20:22?!
TheEnchanted555 1 month ago
@TheEnchanted555 it's some cover of "California Dreamin" by The Mamas and the Papas.
Pretty much every song in this is a cover of a classic 60's song. The one you want is the original though, great song.
3li0tZ 1 month ago
i wish ppl would realize that u can abuse anything even alcohol aint that bad its when u abuse it and drink too much u have to pace ur self with anything
wir3H3ad 1 month ago
reagan...typical old, white, piece of judgmental trash.
CoreyCooper75 2 months ago 6
today's "hippies" are unauthentic and unoriginal. Their music sucks too. Back in these days, the musicians took lessons when they were kids, not just hard drugs when they were adults.
Unemployed scums.
CoreyCooper75 2 months ago 2
Manifesting the mind .....awesome documentary about entheogens/pshychedelics
FasoleCuMuci10 2 months ago
At least hippies tried something new. My generation-30-40 year olds-suck and are such sheep.
bilbosilbo 2 months ago 7
@bilbosilbo Actually, Generation X did a lot to reveal the misogyny and homophobia in the white boy rock and roll of the hippies and what follows. Gen X decided (unlike the the hippies) that Do-It-Yourself was better than the consumerism/wealth accumulation that the ex-hippies advocated. The problem is not the generation you come from, but YOU. Why didn't you try to understand and empathize with your own generation instead of loathing them. This history of hippies is skewed in their favor.
VioletDeliriums 1 day ago
@VioletDeliriums Don't hurt yourself while patting yourself on the back... "Hippies" and progressives dragged Gen X-ers kicking and screaming through the "I got mine eff you" post war period...
posimosh 17 hours ago
i always say terms like 'far out' and 'righteouss' and do the whole 'pot head and acid' thing and i might be a slight conformist to the hippie culture etc. but atleast i made the desiscion on my own cuz i dont know anyone else where i grow up like me. hell youtube is the one thing that connects me to people like me. but im just a white suburb kid so i could be a poser who knows. im just hanging out with life, not surviving it. whatever that means. haha
jayys26 2 months ago
i took lsd for the first time whil at school.... baadd idea... but i get everything now.. everything is linked...
irdghlzeiurghlui 2 months ago
What a bunch of revisionist bull crap from the "War" channel. I'm 59 years old. I was there and in the middle of it and it was way better than what these jerks at the history channel have tried to make it out to be.
The 1960's was a big party that right wingers were not invited to. They have never gotten over that snub and this is 40 year old sour grapes on their part.
tom6612 2 months ago 2
give thanks!
outlier56 2 months ago
I was gonna watch this but then I forgot what i was doing and went and stared at the sun for a bit,then I had a veggie burger and then i got stoned and fell asleep.
zakisbak 2 months ago
What's the song at 0.20.26 called? I's fucking great!
Hverglemer 2 months ago
WOODSTOCK WAS THE HIPPIES LAST MESSAGE OF PEACE TO THE EARTH! WE ARE STILL HERE AND STILL GIVING MESSAGES . TOO BAD MOST OF THE YOUNGER GENERATION DOESN'T LISTEN! PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL!
BluesHarp60 2 months ago
@BluesHarp60 the hip hop generation started two stop the violence movements. & contrary to what so called "popular rap artist's' portray. the hip hop scene IS the neo- beatnick, jazz, hippie, afrocentric, information generation. hip means you know something most are not keen to, & hop means you put it into action. hip hop. not hip pop, thats mtv. just sayin.. the kids listened & put there own post reagan slant on it. example of concious hip hop, krs-one stop the violence. good tune
1dread2dread 2 months ago
@1dread2dread "Hip-Hop" needs to be thrown in the same trash can Disco got stuffed in.
WrestlingBC12 2 months ago
@WrestlingBC12 well you watch wrestling, so i cant expect someone who enjoys absolute crap to have any idea what im talking about.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
the Image of the young guy putting a flower on the bayonet of the Cop made me cry! Thats what we anted to do back then create a new World ruled by Peace. The stupid Drug Addicts took that away from us! Not all of the Hippies were on multiple drugs!
BluesHarp60 2 months ago
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BluesHarp60 2 months ago
im a hippy and i smell,,!
TheRhys2000 3 months ago
@TheRhys2000 You are a Dumbshit and green behind the Ears!! Go get a Job!
BluesHarp60 2 months ago
@BluesHarp60 peace and love maaaaaan!!!!
TheRhys2000 2 months ago
Song that starts at 6:27.......what is it and who does it....Ive got to find it!
WittleBill 3 months ago
im proud to be a hippie.peace and love
sergiocable 3 months ago
does anyone know the song at 0:32
luckofthehamster 3 months ago in playlist luckofthehamster's favorites
@luckofthehamster jefferson airplain´is the group but i don't remember the name of the song. it something like white rabbits i think
mafelove1313 3 months ago
@mafelove1313 no its an acoustic guitar riff it sounds like D. A. G. A. chords
luckofthehamster 3 months ago
The problem here was that hippies forgot the true meaning of their movement, which is Peace and Love. And yes, it is a utopian idea to believe that we could all live in peace in this world as long as money occupies Love's place in our hearts... as it's always been.
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bullshit propaganda
Hendrix was MURDERED
he was held down and had a gallon of wine poured down his lungs
and then 8 barbituate pills stuffed down his throat
FUCK YOU HISTORY CHANNEL for perpetuating the HENDRIX DEATH LIE... FUCK YOU HISTORY CHANNEL
smp156 4 months ago
thisisnt exactly full length. This starts at least 20 minutes (?) into the doc. But thanks.
NoRosesForMe 4 months ago
Hey Dave, Thanks for the upload buddy.
2eelShmeal 4 months ago
some of the "hippies" started making money later on......then they lost their "ethics" and ideals. Money ruins it man. For real. You cant be a true "hippie" and stick to yr values and ethics if yr a Beemer drivin' entrepreneur . We are supposed to feel and give and CARE about all people. Money really changes it ALL. Eat the rich.
NoRosesForMe 4 months ago
@NoRosesForMe You are fucking right man!
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@valelove22 ;) aww thank you! materialism really pisses me off....and lets not forget hypocrisy!
NoRosesForMe 3 months ago
whats the song at 7:50 and 1:23:12 please.
TheLesleyPresley 4 months ago
whats the song at 0:32
luckofthehamster 4 months ago
Nut shot 1:07:02
n8luvshimselfnot 4 months ago
@LethalRonin27 califonia dreamin' by the mamas and the papas
Insightfulgrass 4 months ago
1:30:12 as well
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what song is playing at 0:32 its sounds awesome
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luckofthehamster 4 months ago
does anyone know the name of the song that starts at 20:26?
LethalRonin27 4 months ago
@LethalRonin27 california dreamin by the mama and the papas. on this doc, its a remake though. check out the original though
n8luvshimselfnot 4 months ago
drugs are the saviours of mankind.. too bad todays young generation is nothing like the baby boomers. i was born into the wrong time
Toro953 4 months ago 10
@Toro953 the Baby Boomers became the consumer culture Yuppies. I'd say we're already ahead of where they were at...
avedic 2 months ago
@Toro953 feeling is mutual. im right there with you. im a late 90's baby so i know nothing but i feel the same.
jayys26 2 months ago
@Toro953 the baby boomers became pussies in the end and now just want everyone to say no to drugs while they drink alchohol and smoke ciggarettes, just go with it became just say no. they make it harder for people like us because they sold out and became old and conservative. but i agree certain drugs can save this world
gnrplusledzeppelin 2 months ago
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@Toro953 hey I have an idea, let's bring back psychedelia
watch?v=cQinxOrGoyM
binjin123 1 month ago
Fuck ronald reagan
adityasood007 4 months ago 3
they would spit on Vietnam troops went they landed and got off the plan
PYTHONONLY 5 months ago
@PYTHONONLY Yeah, not cool. I'm SO glad that that sort of thing doesn't happen anymore, or doesn't very much at the very least. I did have some douche call me a baby killer once when I got home from Iraq. I told him his was next LOL. Hippies are cool, old hippies, modern "Hippies", in general. I find it very hard to hate them. I tried, trust me, but I just can't.
PhunkyMunky76 4 months ago
@PhunkyMunky76 well, you guys probably deserve the spit more. seeing as your war killed more civillians in the first year than all of vietnam.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
@1dread2dread Oh boy, yet ANOTHER idiot that wants to tell me how they can conduct a war.... First off, you have no clue who I am. You know I fought in Iraq in 2004. That's it. No clue where I have been, the things I have been through, the things I have done, and what my beliefs in anything are. Yet, you think you can judge me. I don't stand in judgement of you. I think if you believe what you just said you are an idiot.
PhunkyMunky76 2 weeks ago
@1dread2dread I assume you never served in the military. I can assume this because your presented belief tells me the military wouldn't be something you'd do. Now, I don't fault that. If it's against who you are, then that is what it is. You're free to be that, as well as free to tell me I should be spat on. By The Way, you're WELCOME, I'd do it again any time. Did I realize that the Iraq War was wrong? Yes, once I saw how much money was being sucked out of that place, and American Tax Payers.
PhunkyMunky76 2 weeks ago
@1dread2dread As for our killing civilians. NO Soldier I served with KNOWINGLY and PURPOSEFULLY killed a civilian. Nor would they have. HAVE civilians been killed by combat? Yes, and in some of my fights, civilians were killed. Was it something done deliberately? No. Nobody liked the fact that it happens either. War is ugly and messy. You can't have it clean. And I say those that have done so deliberately should be punished harshly.
PhunkyMunky76 2 weeks ago
@1dread2dread If you saw all the car bombs, by Iraqi's, I have seen ruining lives and families, making the most horrible mess that the worst horror movie ever made could not top this, then you would know that the total deaths in that war for Iraqi Civilians were caused mainly by insurgents and terrorists, their own people. They would do this and say to the rest of Iraq "See what the Americans did". As if my being there forced him to blow up 23 people.
PhunkyMunky76 2 weeks ago
@PhunkyMunky76 In the decade since 9/11, the United States has conquered and occupied two large Muslim countries (Afghanistan and Iraq), compelled a huge Muslim army to root out a terrorist sanctuary (Pakistan), deployed thousands of Special Forces troops to numerous Muslim countries (Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, etc.), imprisoned hundreds of Muslims without recourse,
1dread2dread 1 week ago
@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
1dread2dread 1 week ago
@1dread2dread I don't decide National Policy. And, you have yet to address the issue of car bombs, shootings, rapes, and other such things MUSLIMS do to their own. Not all, but the ones creating the carnage you see on the news are doing this. No American Service Member I have ever served with has done any of those things, yet, I should be the one spat on. By The Way, apparently it's appalling that in a war, a child gets killed. Yet, it's perfectly fine to kill them in the womb. Nice.
PhunkyMunky76 1 week ago
@PhunkyMunky76 Hypocritical thought like this has destroyed this country. By The Way. Have I mentioned that I will NEVER pick a rifle up EVER AGAIN for this Government? Because I won't. I won't kill for Corporations and bullshit agenda. This is why I believe ALL of our troops need to be here at home. No overseas bases of any sort whatsoever. No need for them! We need to start refusing to help the UN with anything at all, unless they're not only footing the bill but the lives.
PhunkyMunky76 1 week ago
@PhunkyMunky76 Why are Muslims Angry? Because they hate infidels! Why else? They don't give a rip about anything else. All they care is that Infidels be killed. Why do you think they have such a beef with Israel? Do I care that they want to kill Infidels? No. They can kill them all they like, in their own country. Not my problem. But don't come to MY country and blow shit up. That's where I have a problem with "Angry Muslims".
PhunkyMunky76 1 week ago
@PhunkyMunky76 Granted, WE caused the problem in the first place, but I personally didn't. If you live in the United States, then you are just as at blame as I am. I don't believe in Socialism either. I believe that what a person makes for their work they should get to keep. My money shouldn't go to take care of someone else. I believe if I have the talent and smarts to make myself rich, then I should reap the rewards of that, as should everyone else that works for it.
PhunkyMunky76 1 week ago
@PhunkyMunky76 And I believe the Government has no business in my personal life. They need to take care of things like, oh, I don't know, our Debt, rather than worry about what I am doing. Or you. Or anybody else.
PhunkyMunky76 1 week ago
@PhunkyMunky76 What the 1980s revealed was the hippies DO NOT believe in socialism. What they believed in was accumulation of personal wealth and hedonism -- as your "hero" Steve McJobs (look up the word "McJob" if unfamiliar) exemplifies. It is clear that hippies require a hierarchy to operate, for every protest is an organized effort with leaders to set it up rather than individual subversion. That fit quite nicely into the tyrannical corporate world. Conspicuous consumerism is not the answer.
VioletDeliriums 1 day ago
@VioletDeliriums I agree, resourcefulness and doing for yourself is the answer, as long as we have Manufacturing in this Country. We don't, and so therefore no jobs or steady economy. Can't keep buying when you don't have a pay check.
PhunkyMunky76 11 hours ago
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@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
1dread2dread 1 week ago
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@1dread2dread and waged a massive war of ideas involving Muslim clerics to denounce violence and new institutions to bring Western norms to Muslim countries. Yet Americans still seem strangely mystified as to why some Muslims might be angry about this situation.
1dread2dread 1 week ago
@1dread2dread I wonder how many civilians the VC and NVA killed? It irritates me that some people look at those of us that have served as "Idiots", "Morons", "Drug Crazed Killers". Nothing is further from the truth. We are living, thinking, feeling human beings. There are as many reasons for joining as there are people in the military. Some even feel as you do. Be well.
PhunkyMunky76 2 weeks ago
@PhunkyMunky76 yea.... i just finished my thoughts that i started here on your page. i figured id teach a lesson on occupation. (spit)
1dread2dread 1 week ago
@1dread2dread Whatever. Go piss yourself.
PhunkyMunky76 11 hours ago
I so so hope that in the near future...the word "drugs" loses favor and 2 new terms replace it. Psilocybin and LSD and marijuana have nothing...absolutely nothing...to do with alcohol and cocaine and heroin and the others. We need two classes of drugs and two approaches to them. Alcohol, cigarettes, and so many other legal and prescribed drugs ruin lives. LSD, mushrooms, and pot do NOT ruin lives...they open people up to their inner potential in the deepest way possible. Oh well...
avedic 5 months ago 16
@avedic i love acid just as much as the next hippie but ive seen first hand where people have had permanent trips from acid, now im not saying that doesnt have the potential to be very groovy, but i do believe being able to come down and function regularly would be even groovier
djmonico41 5 months ago
@djmonico41 True enough. I just think the damage from LSD...compared to the damage from, say, oxycodone...is pretty skewed in one direction. Psychedelics seem to be incredible catalysts for true conscious growth. I used to be a skeptic...but after one psilocybin experience in the woods...I was absolutely left in awe. I had no IDEA human consciousness could even DO that. The key, of course, is moderation. The people who burnout on perma-trips generally abhor moderation...
avedic 4 months ago
@djmonico41 that means there acid was not clean. pure LSD stops effecting the mind, body connection after it has taken its course through the system. id blame that on shotty street chemistry. watch hoffmans potion. great doc on LSD it has some cool clinical studies and has interviews with Dr. Hoffman the godfather of LSD.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
@avedic Sooooo true
adityasood007 4 months ago
@avedic LSD is a seriously dangerous drug if u got underlying psychological problems. It WONT help, only make it worse. If you aren't a total screw up going under the stamp, you should be ok. Hell, it could be fun. And I would agree with you on the pot if peeps were smoking 60s pot. The grass today has been made way to potent.
mightydagon 2 months ago
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@mightydagon The fact that it may be dangerous to those with underlying psychological problems is reason to legalize it...so it is used safely as possible. As for pot, one point to remember...the higher potency allows the user to smoke less and get the same effect. Lower potency marijuana has to be smoked more to get the same effect. Smoking anything is dangerous, so if anyone is worried about that, just eat it. :)
avedic 2 months ago
@avedic drug comes from the word druga, which means dried plant. so i am ok with calling weed a drug. but i am not ok with narcotics being called drugs lol
1dread2dread 1 week ago
No one called it 'acid rock' in 1967 like the narrator said. That term came around much later.
canyonlovertoo 6 months ago
@canyonlovertoo What was it called then?
laqtor 5 months ago
1:07:18 -1:08:06 What song is this?
filmlecturerandom 6 months ago
@filmlecturerandom White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane
PEACE OUT
LorenzoSmokeMachine 5 months ago
37:26 What song is this?
filmlecturerandom 6 months ago
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I'm all for freedom to do what you want behind closed doors. Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll! But kids out of wedlock, stealing off the back of Safeway trucks and living life without "ANY" limitations is just flat out destructive!
What happened to the Hippie culture?
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
Responsibility SUCKS! ; )
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madmike466 6 months ago
Dr. Hoffman looks like Koshi from Sunrise....
mmelissamayy 6 months ago
21:50 hahahahah orange
hoppsan4 6 months ago
Also, I love the BFBC2: Vietnam music they have in this documentary.
TPBXDRicky420 7 months ago
Country Joe and The Fish. Listen, Learn, Live.
TPBXDRicky420 7 months ago
The execution of their beliefs was not well thought out, BUT those views and beliefs are without a doubt truly inspirational. I hope to one day be a part of something so important and controversial
rscl1243 7 months ago
@rscl1243 look up the rainbow gathering. it happens every year. a moneyless peace loving society that gathers once a year in a diff part of the world for a month or so and at the last day thousands of people hold hands and meditate on peace in a huge circle. its awesome! and it has been going on since the 60s hippies did not die they just expanded into many diff cultures. and the rainbow gathering has lots of those groups come out every year.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
excellent nutural documentory. nice to know that it's still ok to be a hippy or should i say still appriciate the values of lifestyle and understand a bit more about where it originates . i have not done drugs for years i also do not condone them. but before anyone out there who puys the sixties purly down to drugs, first stop and think about what came out of this generation. sometimes it's benifical to to stop and think! this fundimental human skills is so badly undervauled.
YAR681 7 months ago
Neil Young is not relevant to Charlie...bullcrap.
TheGravygun 7 months ago
Great post Dave. Excellent documentary
ScalerWave 7 months ago
HIPPPIES! <3
XxXbianca09XxX 8 months ago 2
what's the song and who's playing it at 0:13:21 ? please reply !
doom696mented 9 months ago
is it me, or this documentary has very serious ultraconservative undertones??? Sure, there were serious bad effects of drugs implicit in the hippy culture, but the hippy movement was a lot more than drugs..
alejita1679 9 months ago 10
@alejita1679 I think you are correct...conservative undertones. I was raised by hippies, and while drugs were around, there was a lot more to it than that. In any case, what movies like this don't show is that the majority of us kids who were raised by hippies have become quite successful (I was raised in Haight-Ashbury). As far as law-breaking is concerned, the only laws we occasionally broke (and still break) are those related to marijuana and mushroom use.
mushroomagical 8 months ago 6
@mushroomagical
Well said brotha/Sista!
cooka06 7 months ago
@alejita1679
Word
cooka06 7 months ago
@alejita1679 yea well, its history channel...... err ummm general electric.. this video is crap.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
@1dread2dread - you nailed it.
tom6612 2 months ago
@alejita1679 - I wouldn't call it undertones. They are trying pretty hard to demonize hippies . I can only laugh at the very lame Richard Brookheiser being used as a source. Why didn't they just ask J.Edgar Hoover or Nixon what they thought about hippies.
tom6612 2 months ago
what the fuck is wrong with them?! injecting milk is no fucking cure for heroin overdose. these people are really something....Lol
edgar5859 9 months ago
groovy man, groovy...
thanks for posting-i can dig it!!
Brenzvideos 9 months ago
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Hippies were the laziest, spoiled, and were the most coward generation of Americans there ever was no two ways about that.
davidthegreatgeneral 10 months ago
i wish it was still hippies like this i tak my self as a hippie i have the same views
YungRakey 10 months ago
drugs were only a problem because those who consumed created the free world, they just alowed it to be taken away again
Dracoma88 10 months ago 15
HIppies - good intentions, bad execution. Drugs can do good to no one when used uncontrollably.
iokyui 10 months ago 17
@iokyui durp
laqtor 5 months ago
@iokyui the execution was awesome, the black panthers- watch all power to the people, womens rights movement was the hippie movement before the guys stoped being squares. baba ram das- read be here now, the early early stages of the weatherman group. the only thing that really brought down the movement was counter inteligence program created by the FBI.. all the agent provocatuers that were running around making all the movements look bad and or just killing all the grassroots leaders.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
what are you doing in Canada?
what are YOU doing in Canada, man?
one day the smoke cleared.
you had a revelation?
no i ran outta weed and the smoke just cleared
MrSamster911 11 months ago 2
what are you doing in Canada?
what are YOU doing in Canada, man?
MrSamster911 11 months ago
I love this documentary. I have decided to become a hippie.
RnDnproductions 11 months ago 7
@RnDnproductions we can always use more man, Fight With Love, were in more severe circumstances right now and the more love we have the better off we are, MMMMMMMMMMMMM LSD :D
Dracoma88 10 months ago
@RnDnproductions Modern Hippies is not like this today. Haight ashbury still exist i think but not sure.
Ncnk1 10 months ago
@Ncnk1 yea, haight Ashbury still exsist
RnDnproductions 10 months ago
@RnDnproductions watch more documentaries this is the worst account of hippie i have ever seen.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
Excellent documentary. First time I was made to realize the positive practical impact of the Hippie Movement in the form of, among other results, the personal computer and the internet. Good soundtracking here too, along with some in-depth information on the shape and flow of the counter-culture revolution of the 1960s. An insightful historical presentation well worth the time to observe is here presented.
nutube57 11 months ago
“We were doing what the early Christians did." What a bunch of nonsense! The early Christians worshiped Jesus nt earth. u diot! Early Christians died 2 spread the Gospel 2 the world, nt sit on their butt n contribute nothing 2 society. Early Christians weren't promiscuous. Early Christians honored human life, nt demand they b murdered in the womb. Early Christians honored marriage, nt share partners. Early Christians raised godly children, nt careless children. u dont rep. us. thanks Jesus.
HelloWorld1947 11 months ago
@HelloWorld1947 Could the early Christians spell?
madmandable 11 months ago 2
@madmandable-My spelling has nothing to do with what someone else is capable of doing. bring a more substantial argument. And for ur info, English is my 3rd language, and i speak 5 other languages. how many do u speak? just English? good for u! Maybe if ur mother didnt raise u smelling flowers and walking around naked in the 60s, who knows u could have probably spoken more than 1 language. never mind, i doubt it :)
HelloWorld1947 11 months ago
@HelloWorld1947 I wasn't born in the sixties I aws born in the early ninties. You must realize though that any argument seems weak when you forget that words need vowels.
madmandable 11 months ago 2
@HelloWorld1947 maybe you should look up the early christians. before you go saying all this right wing crap... the cult of christ before it was a established religion was a crazy bunch of drug using woman raping earth loving pagans. so was jesus. but you wont read that in any bible because they are all revised VERSIONS of the bible. show me a bible that is not someone else's version.... you cant! and even if you could you could not read it bcus its written in aramic.
1dread2dread 2 months ago
r.i.p owsley xx
iheartyoumuchly 1 year ago
what's the name of the song that plays in the very beginning
ruzan10 1 year ago
@ruzan10 Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit.
DannyDelReyo 11 months ago
@mightydagon They could have done without the drugs? The hippies came to be exclusivley as a result of alternative thinking and knowledge gained from drugs- lsd and marijuana in particular.
adamdude58 1 year ago
not objective documentary.. but thanks for upload..
;)
happypile 1 year ago
Ohhhhhhhhh This Is Deep
recount09 1 year ago
HIPPIES!
Do not under-estimate them.
AaronMk91 1 year ago 4
great documentary
too bad the resolution is so low
ComputerNoob44 1 year ago 2
This is one of the most interesting documentaries I've seen form the history channel. I like how it shows all the angles of the peeps who lived during the time. The hippies were a great idea done the wrong way in my opinion. They could have done without the drugs and unbound hedonism. And the view of how it affected the kids of these people hit right on.
mightydagon 1 year ago 4
@mightydagon watch a real documentary on the 60s and 70s. or better yet! lets all get off the internet, go to a library and maybe pick up a book!
1dread2dread 2 months ago 2