More Peace and Love

One thing that I believe helped to end it all was that Hippie style became a general fashionable thing. The clothing designers copied the style of how the hippies dressed and soon it was available for purchase and many adults began to wear the clothes whether they prescribed to the hippie philosophy or not. This was very discouraging to the  hippies because their desire was to look different from the status quo as do all younger generations. When their mothers started wearing their clothes and their fathers started growing their hair, the radical fringe of society had to come up with something new to set them apart, to symbolize their difference.
When the hippie style made it into Vogue magazine, it was a sign of the end for then.

We are here to make a better world.
No amount of rationalization or blaming can preempt the moment of choice each of us brings to our situation here on this planet.
The lesson of the 60's is that people who cared enough to do right could change history.
We didn't end racism but we ended legal segregation.
We ended the idea that you could send half-a-million soldiers around the world to fight a war that people do not support.
We ended the idea that women are second-class citizens.
We made the environment an issue that couldn't be avoided.
The big battles that we won cannot be reversed.
We were young, self-righteous, reckless, hypocritical, brave,
silly, headstrong and scared half to death.
And we were right. ....Abbie Hoffman

Desiderata

Five for Peace

In San Francisco in the '60's I met many people who were finding some of the same answers as I, so for me it was a most positive experience.
I learned that one of the things life is about is making choices.
You can choose whether to react or respond?
I choose Peace and Love

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