Flower Children Finally Appreciated

The First Wave of Flower Children Paved the Way

 

It is amazing that the first wave of awakening souls in the 20^th 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.