HIPPIES AND PEACE, 50 YEARS LATER

When I saw the prompt word for today, I thought that the word peace was a word which was used all the time when I was a young girl 50 years ago ! It was the time of the Hippies the Beatles and the "Peace & Love" time ! There was Woodstock and a revolution of the youth against the establishment, and rules of the adults.

When I look at the following pictures I think it's sad,  nothing has changed ! The revolution and the cries for peace have vanished in the air. The hippies who wanted to change the world and protest against wars, became just like their parents, Mum, Dad, kids, house, job all honest and quiet people. Only the music has changed. Back then, parents heard piano music and violin while we their children, and our children still listen to  the Beatles, Elvis, Rollings Stones etc.

Those who in their 20th or younger fought for peace and against war, live more or less today like their parents did, and are meanwhile grandparents too !

What is left of the youth revolution 50 years ago?

The fashion that keeps coming back, the music, but the peace hasn't come, there is still war around. Our parents survived (or not) WWII, we don't have World Wars anymore, we have now to fight against an unknown Virus who has locked down the whole world.

That has never happened.

Lockdown phase 2.2

linking to Linda.G. Hills One liner Wednesday - Peace

HAPPY HIPPIE TIMES ?

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I belong to the Hippie generation, but I never was a real one.

The hippies came out of the student's revolution in the 60th against the establishment. They wanted to change the family rules and go back to nature. I love nature but I loved my comfort too. I also was for mariage and an only love at time. Living in a community in the rural countryside, and sleeping all together with cows, goats and dirty men was not really my cup of tea, and I also wanted to know who was the father of my child. I loved the idea of peace and love (pronounced with a French accent "Piss and laugh") and no war. The French accent made me always laugh.



What I liked very much was the Hippy fashion. I didn't wear any flowers in my hairs, but I loved the long skirts and the "wrinkle" look. I had trousers with flower patterns and I remember a suede jacket with broderie outside and goat fur inside. I still have a blouse from the 70th which is in fashion again and which I digged out to wear it after all these years.

At that time a lot of Belgian boys and girls went to Australia or to the Spanish Islands, where they lived in Hippy communities. They are probably today all respectable fathers and mothers, with a house a garden grown up children and a cat and a dog. Gone the time of living in "nature"and community.

There are still some hippies left on the Spanish Islands. I saw some, now my age, the men with long thin hair grey of course and the women with grey pigtails. They look a little out of time.

In retrospect, the hippie generation had direct global influences on music, television and film. It also made its mark on politics, fashion, hairstyles, the arts, and religion, including an emerging interest in Eastern philosophies and meditation.

THE HIPPIES

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The Hippies came out of the student's revolution in the mid 60th against the establishment. They wanted to change family rules and go back to nature. They moved to the country lived in groups and everybody slept with everybody there were no couples. One should be free whatever that meant !

I was in the age to be a hippie, and for certain things I agreed with them, but I still was for marriage and an only love at one time. I didn't want to live in the countryside although I love it, but sleeping together with cows, goats and dirty men was not my dream of life. I loved the idea of peace and love (pronounced in French like "Piss and laugh") and no war.

Quiet a lot of young men and women immigrated to Australia. At that time it wasn't difficult at all, Australia still needed people to fill the country.

They lived in groups grew vegetables and had life stock and lived with that. There were no couples, it was "free love" (?) and children often didn't know who the biological father was ! The girls had long hairs and wear flowers, the boys had long hairs too and looked like old pictures of Jesus Christ. It was back to nature in all it's glory, without electricity or other modern appliances.

I also remember that at that time a lot of boys and girls went to the Spanish Islands, where they lived in Hippie communities. They probably returned after a while from this frugal life and are respectable fathers and mothers today (or even grandpas and grandmas by now), with a house and a garden, grown up children (hopefully their own once) and a cat and a dog. Gone the time of living in pure "nature".


The only thing I liked very much was the Hippie fashion. I had no long hairs didn't wear flowers, but I liked the long skirts and the "wrinkle" look. I wore jeans with flower patterns and I remember I had a suede jacket with broderie and sheep fur which I loved to wear.


There are still some hippies left on the Spanish Islands. I saw some, now my age, the men with long thin hair or bald with a tiny little pigtail in their necks, grey or white of course and the women also with long hairs which make them look like Halloween witches. They are really out of time now and long forgotten.






Hippie life



Baking their own bread



and today (this one still looks quiet decent)