Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
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Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
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The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
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Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
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[Music] in 1968 almost every american knew what these were hippies a few of the estimated 16 million cultural rebels who abandoned 1950s notions about how life in america should be lived [Music] and by 1968 almost everyone in america knew what these people were too student protesters activists part of a small but vocal group of political rebels who were fighting not only to end a war but to transform even dismantle the american system [Music] and this is jerry rubin to try to make sense of the 60s you have to listen to what he was telling america in 1968 you know you know america is so obsessed with bad breath and with underarm deodorant these are the biggest problems in the world if you watch uh television at prime times advertising is not is not concerned about poverty not concerned about racial pressure not concerned about the police but the biggest problem is is your hair groomed and what’s it like under your arms and do you have bad breath and this is the american obsession and so and so i think that i think that a generation of kids which says we don’t care about your concepts of cleanliness as a revolutionary generation to understand the effect jerry rubin and others like him had on america you have to see them for what they were they were people who had most americans convinced that hippies and political activists marched hand in hand but for the most part they never did [Music] february 1964. we came here we came here at six o’clock [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i was in college in early 64. and i read in the san francisco chronicle that a rock and roll band from england was going to be on the ed sullivan show so i thought i would go to the commons room in my dorm and watch it and i figured there’d be five or six people there as there usually were and we’d have the usual argument about what to watch and i hoped i would get to see this and instead there were hundreds of people in this room and everybody there for the same reason god knows why i think there must have been some sense that it’s time for something new to happen and maybe this is going to be it [Applause] the music was something that you could talk about with your friends and that you couldn’t talk about with people who were older than you it gave people a sense of generational solidarity and a sense that they were different in a sense different from the rest of the country different from any other generation in american history that they were in some ways special and blessed and it gave them a sense of being embattled of of being considered outsiders reprobates bad people [Music] these kids may not look like it but they are the leading edge of a youth rebellion a movement that would ignite one of the most powerful and pervasive cultural shifts in united states history [Music] we looking back to the way [Music] [Applause] [Music] to understand how and why so many people stopped conforming to the rules remember that appearances are misleading and especially in the 1960s appearances were very important a perfect example is hair do you think these haircuts have [Music] until it’s all messy what do your parents say about it they’ll write [Music] you would physically get approached and you know quiz or whatever it was you know you know a lot of people did not understand long hair at all they really it was really a threat to them it was really uh it really flew in the face of conventionalism and long hair was a flag for someone you could see somebody across the street and if they had long hair you knew how they thought you knew that they were into good music you knew that they were into a reasonable life you knew that their thought processes you knew that they probably hated the government you knew that they probably knew where the best drug uh drugs were you knew that they that they were someone that you could just nod to and have this understanding between anybody had really short hair you knew what short hair meant strange isn’t it well uh there are a great number of people they stop taking haircuts all together mainly at oncologists number one number two even those which do take haircuts they come so it’s such long intervals it isn’t funny anymore [Music] a style a flag of membership a conscious act of defiance what made long hair such a confusing and profound symbol was that it could mean any and all of these things and to the dismay of the older generation millions of young people suddenly began to care a great deal about looking like they didn’t care how they looked [Music] sometimes i was ashamed to introduce them to some people i just thought of that because they were just you know sometimes the way they dressed and the way they appeared it just didn’t quite suit me to introduce them to some of my friends if parents were uncomfortable with the way their sons and daughters were beginning to look imagine how confused they’d become when they saw how this younger generation was starting to behave [Music] the counterculture was just drenched with eroticism the very act of having long hair is an act of sensuality then you add to that the fact that there was also an enormous amount of sex much more i think there’s no doubt that people were having an awful lot more sex than people of their of the same age had had a decade before certainly certainly in the 50s i mean i came i became interested in girls in the in the middle 50s and believe me it was all talk until the 1960s [Music] physical desire is very normal and it happens and it sometimes everything just comes down to a very basic level and there’s nothing wrong with it i think that sex is just much groupier when there’s love you know there’s a lot more happening but there’s nothing wrong with just sex for sex such talk was not only provocative but at the time downright immoral this generation seemed determined to tear down conventions that had in 1950s america to find proper behavior [Music] and it’s somewhat ironic to think that scientists would unwittingly pour gasoline on the fires by coming up with the surest contraceptive ever devised fear of pregnancy perhaps the most powerful sexual restraint was undone [Music] use of another drug marijuana would further separate members of this generation not only from their parents but also from their inhibitions ass was important because it was it did describe us like them and us kind of of course we all grew up 18 19 20 years of being rigid little you know puppets or something and suddenly the grass relaxed us it allowed us to be the people we really are or really were [Applause] in high school my girlfriend ann and i went around with jim and bob they both smoked pot that’s jive talk for marijuana i’d been smoking pot for quite a while before i met chuck i guess he was what the newspapers call a a peddler he had the heroin habit before i knew it i was hooked bad around this time millions of young people tried marijuana or knew someone who did in response films like this were shown in schools to curtail the growing marijuana problem but students who saw these films knew that most marijuana smokers weren’t going crazy or becoming heroin addicts so many kids concluded they were being lied to and they’d have to find the truth for themselves even if it meant breaking the law i i think making love when you’re you’re turned on in in any sense is 100 better i mean just fantastic donna girl for the first time this vacation and she said afterwards it like any time i touch her it was just soft and tender you know it wasn’t the harsh or an act it was just like floating you know just like two jellies almost gliding into each other it’s just different i i sat for an hour with the girl and we both just explored each other’s faces with our fingers you know it was it was just beautiful i mean it’s just incredible because well that’s that’s your attitude toward everything i mean just you want to re-examine things that you’ve just taken for granted i remember arriving at college and the worst part was my parents left and there i was sitting in this room it was pouring and next door there were two guys playing a record by a group called the mother’s invention and the and what it was was susie cream cheese or i guess it was the thugs and it was called susie cream cheese and what it was was it’s um an oral account of sexual intercourse screaming next door and here i am this naive kid that no idea what all this noise is there’s an upperclassman next door the whip who’s banging on the floor as hard as he can and then there’s this guy who is obviously um might never been anybody who used drugs who was obviously on drugs writing on a table outside my room now when i say writing on a table i don’t mean writing on a piece of paper at the table i mean this guy’s writing on a table and i sat there in the rain listening to this thinking my life has just ended and i thought i better write somebody a letter and i wrote here i am in college and this is wonderful i’m just loving being here thinking i hope i can make it through the week [Applause] [Music] [Music] and the stimuli out there were so many there were so many things to trying to do that every time i tried one it began to ask myself gee who am i what am i about and i remember going through some severe depressions trying to figure out the answer to that question sometimes i thought i had it and indeed i did sometimes for hours or days i remember one day sitting on a beach talking to friends when i realized i understand it all i comprehend the whole world and it’s working uh that lasted for several days uh before i realized you don’t understand any of it [Music] uncertainty was not something parents wanted to hear from their children parents after all had worked hard to direct their kids along the smoothest path to success but with ever increasing numbers of young people exploring alternative directions the fundamental cultural tension of the era emerged it came to be called the generation gap the for me the cutting edge was i thought that life had the world had changed that everything which had perhaps given meaning to life in the past all the traditions whether it was religion manners dress marriage family everything all of that had collapsed [Music] my father seems to have already settled down settled into his way settled knows what’s right knows what’s wrong and every time i want to say something to him i don’t want to be settled down even no matter what i say this is not a final decision i want to just sort of try things out and trying things out on parents never seem to work you can’t try things out so the best thing i can do with my father is tell jokes i mean that’s sort of you know that’s something because that’s sort of you know that’s all right that’s safe uh it doesn’t get you into problems i had a strong feeling that these children were rebels without a cause they had everything they could have had everything and i found it very hard initially to see what they were rebelling against when the vietnam war came along and the big straw the the peace demonstrations you know at least focused on something but initially when they started dropping out from society i was baffled because i thought it was a pretty good society they were dropping out from and i couldn’t see what they had that was going to replace it or that was better it could possibly be better no matter how if you’re happy in your success i mean if you’re from and you’re happy being a problem you should stay afraid you’re happy this kind of talk about happiness seems like the typically naive enthusiasm of adolescence but as with the issue of hair here’s another instance where appearances can be misleading your parents want you to make money go to school have a nice job i want to have a nice job [Music] in the 1960s this belief that happiness could be a goal in itself would take on historical significance it’s been happy what does it mean let me put it this way too do you think this country at this time needs something that it hasn’t got yes what does it need it’s a whole people have to know each other you know what about people older than say 30 older people do you think they can indulge in this too yes they should do i don’t know if they do but they should what do you think older people think of all this most of them think it’s ridiculous why do you think they think it’s ridiculous because i don’t think it can be done are you a part of the love generation yeah do you love me yes i love everybody is it possible to love everybody yeah how come how come people haven’t left everybody for 2000 years because they’ve been mixed up be happy love one another age-old concepts but at a time of unprecedented affluence a time when much of society was still clinging to 1950s conformities most importantly a time when the massive baby boom generation was coming of age these concepts would emerge as the guiding doctrines of a values revolution what would come to be known as the counterculture do you take drugs do take drugs no would you ever take drugs yes you would why i’m experimental i’m experimental [Music] what a lot of the uh members of the counterculture came to see was that changing people’s cultural values may have to do with changing their state of consciousness and hence you get this fascination with anything that will change people’s mode of perception they open the doors of perception right it could be drugs the fascination with drugs was not fun and games in the 60s for many people it was a way to see reality differently and hopefully therefore to change your values i’ve taken acid three times that’s all and uh i reckon people i know about acid too acids are oaks biggest hoax of the century acid doesn’t exist don’t you know it’s tasteless otherwise it’s colorless just something in your mind here’s one of the truly fateful twists in this tale of cultural rebellion a collision that put the most potent psycho chemical ever invented lsd into the hands of millions of young people passionately searching for something new lsd was only vaguely understood by the most qualified researchers what was lsd doing to these people i believe that the inner body the inner soul that we don’t need money and we don’t need the cars and other things in fact i’ve had the feelings that i want to give away all my things to people who need them who want to live in the society with others and start anew inside myself [Music] this was a question that the authorities were very interested in everybody that took lsd felt that they were undergoing enormous personal changes they weren’t the same person after having lsd and there was a scientific study it was done by a rand scientist and in 1966 he published his findings and what he said was even though all of these people said that they felt enormous changes had taken place the personality test showed that they were largely the same person in every area but one area and this was called the ways to live scale the ways to live scale indicated that one dose of lsd uh stimulated enormous changes whereas this the uh the person taking the test might have said it’s important for me to get a corporate job it’s important for me to have a good car after one dose of lsd they were saying i think maybe a contemplative lifestyle might be what i want to have i think i’d like to travel before settling down i think maybe i want to look for some spiritual value in my life things totally changed around the lsd trip is best understood as a religious pilgrimage the lsd kick timothy leary was the psychedelic movement’s prophet of perception a high-profile lsd advocate who was scaring the hell out of mainstream america independence said life liberty and pursuit of happiness pursuing happiness means the right to get high [Music] [Music] it’s odorless colorless tasteless leary was alarming because he was proposing to radically alter fundamental institutions he was terrifying because it seemed like some of america’s best and brightest young people were listening to him i took a hit of osley white lightning acid and i became an instant hippie i fell in love with nature and i looked at the rocks i could sit there looking at weeds that were normally an item of horror to my parents and trip on the intricate structures of ragweed and thistle plant and i began to become a discerning acid head i only took it every three days mind you so that i could clean up properly and and and all but the real issue was when i went to san francisco in 1967 in the summer it was the love that bought me into the hippie movement [Music] the council for a summer of love proclaims a summer of love in the city of san francisco we believe that haight ashbury is the focus of a universal spiritual awakening the summer of love is an expression of this awakening we call upon the world to help us celebrate the infinite holiness of life this song reached the top of the charts that summer of 67 and nearly a hundred thousand young people responded to it by going to san francisco what’s more the nation’s news media sent their correspondence to report what was happening in haiti ashbury beaming the summer of love into america’s living rooms cbs news without any flowers in its hair is in san francisco because this city has gained the reputation of being the hippie capital of the world i’m harry reisner the summer of love was one of the most pivotal and provocative events of the 60s to mainstream americans young and old this summer was an eyeful an oddity an outrageous display of weirdos going way way out but a lot of young people found it downright fascinating and to those across the country who were already searching for alternative lifestyles and values the reports from the hate confirmed that they were not alone everybody was your brother everybody was part of your tribe part of your group you could stop and talk to anybody because they all look the same they all wear the same clothes they all felt the same they all sang the same songs the dance to the same tombs went to the same parties the favorite pastimes of the hippies besides taking drugs hoarding seminars and groups of discussions there was festivals and concerts and uh the religious groups popped up and the hare krishnas were there we’d all go and hang out over in one group enchant and home with them and then we’d go to another group and dance with them and it was it was like a big party [Music] many of the residents of haight ashbury were seriously trying to construct an alternative society one with an alternative press people think of newspapers as institutions we don’t try to cater the audience so much as shape and develop those people that are ready to rebel in this society [Music] with alternative business and enterprise [Music] with alternative religions the majority of young people are very interested in eastern philosophy perhaps because they’re unsatisfied with their own philosophy or religion and perhaps most important of all the people of the hate were committed to new kinds of social welfare [Music] there was alternative everything because this was a community that was throwing out the old rules and living by an entirely new set of values the concept of love is a public phenomena the mention of love in a public way be outside of the church this is the first i heard of it you know love peace man you know that love and peace that was the refrain uh the concept was that life was there to be experienced fully experience everything have no fear make no plans make no career plans test and enjoy the limits of life

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

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Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
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Baby Boomers in California
Bay Boomers smoking cannabis
Baby Boomers in California
Baby Boomers all the same

There’s a white one and a brown one
And a black one and a yellow one
And they’re all smoking cannabis
And they all look just the same

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

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Baby Boomers in California
Bay Boomers smoking cannabis
Baby Boomers in California
Baby Boomers all the same

There’s a white one and a brown one
And a black one and a yellow one
And they’re all smoking cannabis
And they all look just the same

Yeah but the music was good. :)

Now they are all old and voting for Trump.

Peak Warming Man said:

Now they are all old and voting for Trump.

Ah fuck we just misread that as Herpes well you know what we were thinking.

roughbarked said:

Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
28:07 mins.

well
u new I’d watchit dinchu

roughbarked said:

Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
28:07 mins.

Oh yes, it is The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies..

Well, other than this..

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 that depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven. The film includes clips from both Gates of Heaven and Herzog’s 1970 feature Even Dwarfs Started Small. Comic song “Old Whisky Shoes”, played by the Walt Solek Band, is the signature tune over the opening and closing credits.

Filmed in April 1979, the movie features Herzog cooking his shoes (the ones he claims to have been wearing when he made the bet) at the Berkeley, California, restaurant Chez Panisse, with the help of chef Alice Waters. (The shoes were boiled with garlic, herbs, and stock for 5 hours.) He is later shown eating one of the shoes before an audience at the premiere of Gates of Heaven at the nearby UC Theater. He did not eat the sole of the shoe, however, explaining that one does not eat the bones of the chicken.

Morris is not shown in the film, and Herzog, Morris, and others have told different stories of the nature of the bet, disagreeing as to whether it was serious, flippant, or an after-the-fact publicity stunt.

Blank went on to direct Burden of Dreams (1982), a feature-length documentary about Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is included as an extra on The Criterion Collection edition of the Burden of Dreams DVD. It is also included as an extra in the Criterion Collection edition of the Gates of Heaven Blu-ray disc.

When Chez Panisse celebrated its 40th anniversary, a replica of the shoe was created, boiled, and eaten as part of the public anniversary celebration.

Ian said:

roughbarked said:

Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
28:07 mins.

Oh yes, it is The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies..

Well, other than this..

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is a short documentary film directed by Les Blank in 1980 that depicts director Werner Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven. The film includes clips from both Gates of Heaven and Herzog’s 1970 feature Even Dwarfs Started Small. Comic song “Old Whisky Shoes”, played by the Walt Solek Band, is the signature tune over the opening and closing credits.

Filmed in April 1979, the movie features Herzog cooking his shoes (the ones he claims to have been wearing when he made the bet) at the Berkeley, California, restaurant Chez Panisse, with the help of chef Alice Waters. (The shoes were boiled with garlic, herbs, and stock for 5 hours.) He is later shown eating one of the shoes before an audience at the premiere of Gates of Heaven at the nearby UC Theater. He did not eat the sole of the shoe, however, explaining that one does not eat the bones of the chicken.

Morris is not shown in the film, and Herzog, Morris, and others have told different stories of the nature of the bet, disagreeing as to whether it was serious, flippant, or an after-the-fact publicity stunt.

Blank went on to direct Burden of Dreams (1982), a feature-length documentary about Herzog and the making of Fitzcarraldo. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe is included as an extra on The Criterion Collection edition of the Burden of Dreams DVD. It is also included as an extra in the Criterion Collection edition of the Gates of Heaven Blu-ray disc.

When Chez Panisse celebrated its 40th anniversary, a replica of the shoe was created, boiled, and eaten as part of the public anniversary celebration.

Crazy times.

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

roughbarked said:

Is it The Best Documentary To Understand Baby Boomer Hippies
28:07 mins.

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Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I’m not even clicking on that.

Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

There’s some weirdo’s that moved there.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

There’s some weirdo’s that moved there.

May the longtime sun Shine upon you All love surround you

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I’m not even clicking on that.

Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

because we all know that only hippies are against global warming.

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

because we all know that only hippies are against global warming.

I wonder how many people are overtly pro- global warming.

Farmers in Siberia I suppose.

Won’t speak for anyone else here or there but we’re quite happy to live on a planet with a decent greenhouse effect going.

SCIENCE said:

Won’t speak for anyone else here or there but we’re quite happy to live on a planet with a decent greenhouse effect going.

Fair

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Know enough already?

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

because we all know that only hippies are against global warming.

Like CHINA Communist Hippies

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

mollwollfumble said:

Visiting one soon. My wife’s sister is one. Lived in Byron until it became too expensive, now lives near Byron. Vegan. An evangelist of homoeopathy and herbal medicine, sons spend all their time surfing, one now works in a surf shop, anti-marriage, in very close contact with ex husband. Attends green demonstrations. Against global warming. etc.

because we all know that only hippies are against global warming.

Like CHINA Communist Hippies

Remarkable things that’s happened in China is that the amount of renewable energy production really is increasing at at astounding rate … it’s going to be around 3 TWh this year, more than the total amount of electricity produced in the EU.

But because China’s total electricity demand is growing just as fast, the % of renewable has been basically static at 27% for the past 5 years.

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

because we all know that only hippies are against global warming.

Like CHINA Communist Hippies

Remarkable things that’s happened in China is that the amount of renewable energy production really is increasing at at astounding rate … it’s going to be around 3 TWh this year, more than the total amount of electricity produced in the EU.

But because China’s total electricity demand is growing just as fast, the % of renewable has been basically static at 27% for the past 5 years.

Fuck, I mean PWh of course

SCIENCE said:

Won’t speak for anyone else here or there but we’re quite happy to live on a planet with a decent greenhouse effect going.

Bloody hippie.

The Rev Dodgson said:

SCIENCE said:

Won’t speak for anyone else here or there but we’re quite happy to live on a planet with a decent greenhouse effect going.

Bloody hippie.

Greenhouses are good for the hydroponic stuff, man¡

dv said:

SCIENCE said:

Won’t speak for anyone else here or there but we’re quite happy to live on a planet with a decent greenhouse effect going.

Fair

Have to say it has been good to me in the past.