Summer of Love?

The "hippie" movement was much more than mere rebellion, it was a desperate search for meaning, a groping in the dark, a switch from auto-pilot to overdrive, an awakening, a consciousness, a new awareness. A misguided search, but a search nonetheless. Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll were not hailed as an end themselves but a means to an end...a part of the journey. Acid trips and meditative trances gave way to prophetic visions and chemical induced illusions. We were lost children of the Fall, searching for a path back to the Garden, groping in the darkness, dreaming of the Promised Land. Doubts lingering in the back of our minds...the question everyone was afraid to ask..."Is God dead?" Are we all alone? isolated by the prisons of our own minds, bastard children of our own demise, we were vulnerable, rebellious, and pliable. Searching for meaning and True Love we started "Being" and practicing "Free Love." We joined communes and formed organizations with egalitarian and utopian ideals, protested and demonstrated in the streets, longing for a place and time where everyone was equal to his brothers and sisters in every way. As time went on, our baby boomer cries of defiant rebellion became spoiled tantrums of "gimmie, gimmie, gimmie" as the struggle for liberty and justice for all evolved from an equality to an entitlement mentality rendering us a welfare state, more dependent than ever on our beloved Daddy Sam. The pendulum has swung from one extreme to the other in the 40 years we have wandered in the desert since the "Summer of Love” in 67' and we are by no means anywhere near the Promised Land. The Revolution has made a full circle and become the new orthodoxy. Here we are over three decades past the bicentennial year and we're in the same place we were in over 230 years ago. Tyranny. The time has come once again for the people to unite and list their grievances against the axis of power, the rulers and principalities of this dark world, and declare their independence, breaking all ties of co-dependency and loyalty to Babylon. Instead of resisting, co-existing with nature and our fellow man in harmonious communities of likeminded souls governed by a circle of agreement with a powerful nucleus of Love rather than a hierarchical pyramid of control perpetuated by an oppressive Omni-present Tyrant.