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Bad Trips And Relativity (revised)
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Bad Trips And Relativity (revised) |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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We used to wear flowers in our hair and listen to Dylan and the Doors, and the Stones, and smoke a lot; the world, it seemed, could be done over in paisley and peace, it was the peace that comes from being numb, but we were young we were young. War back then was just another reason to get high and mighty, to walk around with mushroom soup for brains, sticking flowers in the guns, running naked through Chicago, sticking truth in their ears, telling ourselves we really did levitate the Pentagon. Until a trench coat man with promises and money, lots of money, said all I had to do was all I had to do for all the money I could make, it didn't take a genius to figure out a plan; what did it matter where the killings were as long as all the killings were for God and country's sake; Hell it was only time and money after all, it was only time and money after all. It all helped me to believe we'd beat Him, by dealing death we'd cheat Him, scam the Reaper live forever, not just in our deeds but forever young, like an awakened sleeper, to rage somehow some day against the Johnsons-McNamaras-Nixons-Daleys and the rest of all the check book patriots, well we were just the best we'd ever seen, the best we'd ever seen. The last time I was in the Haight street walkers with cell phones wore granny dresses so salesmen from Des Moines, and Akron, could go home to tell their buddies in the club how they had a hippie, in the Haight; how times have changed, how times have changed. Remember TIME and LIFE? Before anthrax, god's own freaks, missing nukes, earth killing asteroid streaks? Money that evaporates, religions always based on love teaching us our private hates? Internet pornography, YouTube, Twitter geeks, H1N1 a bad odds bet? Every news bite a crisis, lies just a way to speak by idiots trying to spend us out of debt? When spin was what our tires did not politicians and CNN? They used to warn us to the bone about the evil of the life and times in which we always seemed to feel at home; now we are them, now we are them. White papers and documentaries were strident warnings everywhere, about hippie acid in reservoirs how we had to watch the water to protect the body politic, about powders that we buried in our genes, how drugs and sex and rock'n roll would rot our brains, when we should be getting high on life; that's what we'd read in any paper whenever we were straight enough to read about their hate. It wasn't often we were straight. They must have been right about those drugs building up inside us all distorting our reality, so we ignore what's there to see; it must be why wide-eyed panic hides naively behind a breathing mask, why terrorists who were released on presidential pardons flew back becoming ashes in rain that dried to powder on windowsills looking out on deadly gardens, why I don't drink the water anymore, why sunsets get redder every day. The cities now, they say, may have to be abandoned; the cities may have to be abandoned. ©2003, 2009 by icebox . . |
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rad802 Member
since 2008-04-19
Posts 279KY U.S.A. |
Wow There is a lot here. Thanks for writing this. I enjoyed reading it. I am not sure but I think maybe 10% of our generation used drugs to excess. Many tried different drugs a little and then stopped. I have many friends that are gone now because they could not stop. It may not be our culture's (hippy culture) fault if everything goes down the toilet. Less than 5% of the population has all the power. We can choose to organize and oppose all of the insanity. I hope this happens. I do not know if it will help. A worthy legacy is the irrevocable consequence of dreaming. Rick A. Delmonico |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
It's hard for me to respond, as I lived so much of this scenario, mostly on the west coast. We tried to change the world and stop the fighting. We failed for the most part, but not because we lost our faith. Many of us held tight to the dream, still do today. Maybe that's why I am alwasy broke? Success and Money dangled before twenty-somethings managed to win the overall battle. |
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Callista Member
since 2008-10-05
Posts 63USA |
You need to write a book.Interesting to hear a first hand account. (I guess). |
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Oklahoma Rose Senior Member
since 2008-02-28
Posts 1586Oklahoma USA |
You're a wonderful writer. |
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