The First Wave of
Flower Children Paved the Way
It is amazing that the
first wave of awakening souls in the 20th century were the flower
children. They were trying to make statements without violence. The gentle rebellion against the status quo
was such a reaction against many dark systems.
They were opposing the
military/industrial complex and the treatment of minority people. It would be interesting if the movement and
growth could have progressed without the addition of substances. Adding drugs to this wave of discontent youth
only served to dis-empower any true watermark of achievement. If we, (as I was one of these people) could
have just stuck to coffee houses, Socratic discussion, and singing peace songs,
oh how sublime. This group was reacting to the robot like attempt at education.
It became obvious that we were being programmed and then we get married and buy
lots of commercial products, house, car and plan for retirement. Life is short and we were on a train running
us towards someone else’s dream. True
education, Eastern meditation and gurus, and a rebirth of Native American mysticism
fueled the fire of our discontent. It
was the scientific community that followed Descartes belief that emotions were
unnecessary. It was flower power that
sought to exonerate our emotional beings. We were emerging and yet being held down by
the use of substances that made us even more passive. Another scary mis guided trek was towards
sexual liberation. Sex needed to be liberated and to be discussed, however;
there were the slimy pervert’s in raincoats that also benefitted. It was the
first attempt at throwing down the gauntlet at the Stepford Plastic People. We
threw a wreath of flowers but there was a ripple effect. We were the Gandhi
like resistance saying we have had enough.
There was a machine that treated humans like sheep on a conveyor belt
but who were they? We were manipulated
to the max and finally wanted to regain some autonomy. Like the innocents that we were, we had no
idea of the giant we shook our fits at.
Long before we were born the wealthy elite had already decided our fate.
The wealthy elite have been in power much longer than imaginable and have aligned
with a dark agenda that we just call the shadow. The playing field was never
even. If you work hard all your life you
will won’t be able to get there. If you
work hard all your life, you will get arthritis from the Fluoride anyway. You won’t be dancing in your golden years
with the man you love: Men more than women will die out early. About when I was born a decision was made to
add Fluoride to drinking water with the understanding it would prevent decay. We accepted having poison added without
control to our fresh drinking water. My
father was a dentist who bought into the biased research that this indeed was
true. When I was watching Obama accept
his second term in Chicago, the crowd almost reminded me of those who were at
Woodstock in the 60’s. I saw people
united in their vision and dream once again, only much more sober I think. I think this second wave of young people can
carry our dream across the relay line and on into our ever evolving human
consciousness. Keep dreaming about the
world you want to live in, because it might be our grandchildren that carry us across
that threshold.
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