[Q] how to fix stuff

[belovelife]

in the opinion of the intelectuals present

what could a thousand hippies gathering for world peace

do to have a positive impact on many different levels of

our current society direction?

 

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[CraigD]

From the mid 80s to the late 90s, I was one of those thousands (best estimates put the size of the 1991 Green Mountain gathering at about 30,000) of hippies, and might be again at any time.

 

Speaking for a lot of like minded and experienced folk I know, I think the effect of rainbow life is almost completely personal: experiencing it shapes ones character, and both dispels a lot of fond fantasies while fostering new and deep optimism for humankind. That said, different people’s experiences can vary, and depend a lot on your closest friends. The rainbow family is, IMHO, best something eased into slowly and carefully, though I’ve know people who just dove straight in and did fine. Despite its focus on health and personal responsibility (eg: the ban on alcohol and “little white powders”), I’ve know a lot of nice people who got into dire addictive straits on this path, and some unnice people who preyed on them. A lot of setting suns, to float a reference.

 

Within the rainbow family, there’s a strong consensus, almost a dogma, that the very existence of us has a transformative effect on society, or perhaps reality itself. This belief is, I’m as sure as I am of anything, beautiful, but utterly fantastic and false. Ultimately, to have an effect on the wide world of human culture, you have to get into its mainstream, serve, and lead the way people have for thousands of years. The best of the high holy hippies I knew in the 80s are now college professors and similar.

 

Concerning the question “how to fix stuff”, I always like to quote a line from the Whole Earth Catalog that influenced me profoundly in my pre-hippy, pre-teen life (as best I can recall it):

[referring to the world] “you can’t put it back together – it is together”

Life is never without stuff in need of fixing (and tools with which to fix it), but what needs fixing and what is working well is often very hard see.

[belovelife]

you have to watch real genious

YouTube - REAL GENIUS with VAL KILMER - NUMBER ONE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZ9ue6qj9I

 

here is an clip, i loved this movie as a teen

but yes, the gathering is like its own thing, at once new and amazing

but definatly culture shock

calm is a great kitchen, so many good things

like bee propolus

a powerful medicine that few know of

i use it myself, and when i even start to get sick

i eat some and feel better in a day

the thing is how many good influences are there

sure alot of the older people are cool

but some of the young are in need of guidance

but the majority of people that go have good hearts

and would like to be part of the change

i make a "cafe" called yurI's knight

coffee, mensa puzzles, majic the gathering, etc

so for my part i try to influence education

in any form,

[belovelife]

wow that whole earth catalogue looks kinda like wikipedia

aith wikipedia being an upgrade :hyper:

[belovelife]

how about forming a party all around the world and gathering the most peacful and bright minds to think together