How glad I am to have not been a hippie. I think the main reason why I have a negative look towards hippies and the youth of the ’60s comes from reading back issues of Mad magazine when I was young. Artists like Dave Berg would always draw them with impossibly long hair (wouldn’t they be hot under all that hair?) and clothing that was ragged and laughable-looking. They were also usually portrayed as being idiots, with all their pot-smoking and constant proclamations of “Peace!” Even though what I observed from Mad magazine and other sources about hippies repulsed me to that lifestyle, I must admit at the same time I was almost fascinated by it. Why would young people intentionally drop out of the mainstream and do all those negative (to me) things? To this day I still feel this way. That’s why I decided to review The Hippie Revolt for this roundtable, to get some sort of answer to this question. Did this documentary give me answers? Read the review and find out.
#1 by Anrkist on May 28, 2009 - 7:05 pm
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*wonders if comments are working
#2 by Anrkist on May 28, 2009 - 7:09 pm
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*wishes he could edit that now.
I guess URLs are blocked here? Oh well. I was just going to post the information requested in the review.
At any rate. The Hells Angels were probably supplying the drugs. They also killed a (potential) hippie during a Rolling Stones concert while doing crowd control.
#3 by Mischief Maker on May 30, 2009 - 9:00 am
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“Why would young people intentionally drop out of the mainstream and do all those negative (to me) things?”
The very real possibility that the “mainstream” would pluck you from your ordinary respectable life against your will and send you to die face down and bleeding in the mud in some other country’s civil war was a powerful motivator back in those days.