Me.
I am the product of your peace and love 60's era. That which you cherish so greatly. And another thing, I was born and raised in San Francisco. Born in the fucking Haight Ashbury. And here's what I see of the hippies:
I see angry young people, angry at war, angry at the church, angry at their parents, and humanity, and angry at the government. Just angry at everyone. And they adopt this good-with-the-flow-even-if-its-taking-you-straight-into-the-gutter attitude. That way they don't have really care about anything! That way they don't have to be angry anymore. They can just let life live it'self while they squated next to trees popping out babies and dropping acid in the Summer of Love.
Page 6. My pop is the one handing the man in the suit the guitar. If you're a real hippy you own at least one copy of The Summer of Love. You should also own a copy of The Coney Island of The Mind and Howl. The books that lulled me to sleep as an infant.
Growing up I learned to meditate, read auras, get in touch with my gaurdian angels. And where did that get me? That got me voted Most Likely To Go Insane by my fellow peers. That's all.
My pop spurted semen all across the nation, dappling the world with bastard children that came pounding on my mums door so she could tell him she didn't know where he was. Backpacking across country again? Doing peyote by the grand canyon? Who the Hell knows.
Tell me, "don't worry, babe, it'll be alright." Don't worry doesn't pay bills. Don't worry doesn't feed hungry children. Don't worry does do shit for anyone with a beating heart.
Go with the flow my fucking ass. So, I got to starve as a child, and I got to watch my mum cry, and I got to live in our van, without food, without running water, just so he could go-with-the-flow.
Well, I don't buy it. And personally, I look at the punk rocker generation of today and they don't look much different than the hippies did. If you want to know the truth. They look like inside out hippies. They're everything you tried to be but couldn't because you had no lives and blinded yourself to reality.
Well, now the world is paying for your mistakes. You spawned a generation of children who don't know parents, who don't know dicipline, and who don't know how to raise a family. Thus, you are the ones to blame for the down fall of society.
If you want more proof, try reading up on the collapse of the Roman Empire and remember "history repeats itself".
You are the reason juvenile crime it through the roof. You are the reason more kids are dropping out of school than ever. You are the foundation of society and what kind of society is built off acid and shrooms? That is a society that is slaughtered by the stronger countries. You will have our freedom revoked because you never appreciated it.
So, thank you very fucking much.
Cheers,
Lost
I was upset at the time, when I first wrote this and after I wrote it I realized that that was just my pop and I can't blame him for being born when he was born. Just like no one can blame me for being skeptical - it's part of the Gen X culture; and flaky hippy-dippiness is part of my pops Baby Boomer era. So, I really don't mean all the things I said there, although I meant them at the time that I wrote them. Anyways, I thought I should just share this with you.
Cheers,
Lost
