Looking back into the Flowerpower Gen

An era has gone by. Since the start of 1960's when hippie brigade had started showing signs of sprouting to the close of the 20th century, a time when everything was popularised by the zeitgeist.

The hippie counterculture (against the mores of a middle class hypocrisy culture) brought about a revolution in the way American youth lived. They say at a brink of precipice mankind takes a drastic action to change. Youth suddenly found the hollowness of the middle class living. And they started confronting by voicing their opinions.  Lifestyles were changed, religion tweaked to live up to the rebel generation.

Hippies took to marijuana ( a drug known to expand consciousness ) living like nomads hitchhiking from one place to another without any concern for possessions, a culture had taken root.

 A person born in the early 80's can only look back and forth to prove what this generation of youth was going through to have taken an action of distancing itself from the regular society. Popular rock bands, popular singers everyone seemed to have lived up to the same voice.T.V shows, movies of an era gone by are the only momentos that help put together the pieces of the puzzle.

Hippies seemed to have taken over every aspect of the society from green living to organic food to clothing to march protests against the Vietnam War, the rebellion was everywhere. Where ever there was a live music concert, there were a large number of hippies. They believed in freedom of choice and a life on their own terms. Rock bands were the voice of the youth and this was the time in the history that these bands funnelled out some of the best songs of a generation.

Lot of people say that youth had lost its way but they only tried the society to look at life differently. They could see the worthlessness of the war and a huge amount of money being spent to build piles of arms and ammunitions. They could see through the middle class show off culture was only to cover its emptiness.

By the end of 1960's hippie counterculture had started to wane but had left an undeniable mark on the years to come.

This was the time when movies and television started portraying the times gone by which had a memorable impact on the the generation born till the late 80's.Having lived and gotten into college in this  period reverberations were bound to be felt .Music and movies became the source of inspiration for the next generation.

Talking to friends we remembered some of the best T.V shows, music concerts and singers and not many came to our mind from the current lot.

Maybe because we cling to the past coz future is uncertain and people are afraid of the uncertain.

But for me and some of my older friends it was an era that allowed its youth to voice their opinions and live by them and not drown them out.