Hippie philosophy: Only sense gratification works

Before we can get into how the hippie movement turned America and the rest of the world into hedonists, we have to first take a look at the “hippie” culture.

The hippie movement began in America in the mid-60s, though its roots go back several years earlier. Within four or five years the movement had spread to all of Europe, the Scandinavian countries, Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Philippines, Africa and South America.

This movement was a unique cultural phenomenon and had far-reaching influence and impact not only on American society, but also in practically the entire world.

Understanding the attraction that the hippie movement had to a way of life that was so foreign to the one that they were raised in is not rocket science.

You’ve got to appreciate the social and economic climate of mid-60s America. One critical factor was that most of us had already experienced the American dream, were a bit frustrated by it and wanted something more out of life.

Our fathers and their fathers worked and slaved to improve their quality of life. They wanted nice houses, new cars, and other modern conveniences, which they originally didn’t have. This provided a great incentive for them.

So they worked very hard and struggled to get what they wanted, always thinking they would be happy when they got it.

By the time I was in my late 20s and early 30s I had already experienced these things and still wasn’t happy.

I had a nice house with white picket fence and a lovely wife, wore nice clothes, had money in my pocket, owned a nice car, and had a nice stereo, a big TV and two little “rug rats”. Despite living the “American dream”, I was miserable.

Not only was I miserable on one hand, while experiencing material happiness, but also on the other hand there was this gnawing feeling inside telling me “this was not enough, I needed something more”.

Besides the fact that I wasn’t completely satisfied with my material prosperity, there were other social factors that made me question whether the picture of life that my parents and teachers painted for me was really that good.

There was the Vietnam War, for example, which was, in my opinion, a senseless conflict that I could not understand. Young people were being drafted right left, but for what?

Our parents were raised under different circumstances and most of them had unflinching faith in America and anything America did. But, somehow, I couldn’t accept this and couldn’t blindly commit myself to a cause I felt was wrong.

Also new was the racial prejudice issue – the oppression of blacks, Chicanos, and other minorities – not just in the South, but also in every major city in America. Because of material prosperity we had time to look at things going on around us, and we didn’t like a lot of what we could see.

In the beginning, there were young people who rejected the values of society and who dropped out of the rat race to try to live a more carefree existence. They left the comfort of their homes and families, left the luxuries, etc., and moved to the country or to the older, lower rent sections of the cities.

Hippies stood out like a sore thumb. They had long hair and wore outrageous clothing. The rejection of the clean-cut American image was symbolic of rejecting society and what it stood for. It was the same thing with paka (crazy) lolo (weed) and LSD. You have to understand that smoking dope every day and taking lots of acid wasn’t just a protest, it was the purpose. That being, trying to understand ourselves and see where we fit into a society we felt alienated from.

As I look back on it and reflect while writing this, the idealism of the early hippie movement was fairly superficial. In many cases that led to both escapism and hedonism. That’s a bit of a generalization because there actually were a lot of sincere people who were not trying to just escape, but who are actually very responsible and who worked very hard to try to make things better.

There were a lot of humanitarian minded young people working for the civil rights movement and trying to end the war. Their mutual desire to help others made them feel a strong sense of brotherhood among themselves. Of course, they used to get stoned together regularly, and this took on an almost ritualistic meaning because that activity helped reinforce their common bond. It came to be symbolic in the minds of the idealistic hippies of a concerned, liberal-minded mentality, as opposed to the beer drinking redneck with the “my country, right or wrong” attitude.

Then there came a time where there was an obvious split in what was happening. The superficial idealism went one of two ways: it either developed into real idealism or turned into hedonism. At that point, the hippie movement snowballed quickly. In a matter of a few years, tens of thousands of young people grew their hair out, dropped out of college, quit work, etc. They were attracted to the hippie lifestyle because it seemed different and exciting to them.

Although many of them were attracted at first by the struggle to end the war in Vietnam, etc., they just got swept away in the rising tide of hedonism.

There were protest songs against the war by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, etc., being played on the radio and they were very popular. So the youth identified themselves with this cause. But there was lots of dope around and it wasn’t just grass and acid anymore. People were using speed, smack, downers, sniffing glue – anything they could get their hands on. And drinking also became very widespread, which is a very significant turning point since the earlier, more idealistic hippies completely stayed away from alcohol. They equated alcohol with the mentality of a society they were trying to change.

Somehow or another the idealism got buried in the drug scene. As more and more of the youths got heavier into dope, they just lost sight of anything positive. They knew they couldn’t be perfectly satisfied with material luxuries, but instead of seeking out some higher purpose, they became like animals, just doing anything they wanted to.

Their philosophy was really just an outgrowth of the society they had supposedly rejected. In other words, they saw sense enjoyment and physical pleasure as the goal of life.

They were more or less saying, “If TVs, stereos, and cars can’t give it to us – what will”? So they got into trying anything and everything that felt good, regardless of the future consequences, either to themselves or others. Then, certain sayings became popular that perfectly reflected the absolute self-centeredness that hippie-ism was becoming. Sayings like, “if it feels good, do it” and “do your own thing (regardless of the consequences to others)”.

Rock music played a big part as well. There were different rock groups who had different “messages” and they had a tremendous influence over their audiences. On one hand, there were the Beatles who were singing about love, peace, and meditation, and who were personally involved, at that stage anyway, in the search for more meaning to life.

On the other hand, there were groups like the Rolling Stones and the Doors who sang about and glorified sex, drugs, anarchy, and absolute hedonism. Unfortunately, it was groups like the Rolling Stones and others who had the most influence. By this time, there was very little idealism left.

There is another angle by which the rock groups influenced the development of the hippie subculture as well. In the beginning, hippies used to get together at beaches and parks and sit in groups together, talking and playing music. These gatherings were called “Human Be-Ins”, and everyone who went was an active participant in making the event successful.

As the gatherings got bigger and bigger, rock groups started coming to play their music. This had the effect of cutting down on the creativity of the participants. Since rock music was completely overwhelming, it was impossible to sit around and talk or play music or exchange ideas with your friends anymore. You were not a “participant’, you were an “audience”.

You just sat there and got more stoned and listened to the band play, or you got up and danced to their music. The entire atmosphere was controlled by the bands and the kind of music they played.

Someone from the stage would say, “Take off your clothes”, and 500 or 1000 people, out in the audience, would do it!

The death knell for these gatherings came at a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, where the Hells Angels (the notorious motorcycle gang) beat and stabbed a man to death right in front of the stage as the Rolling Stones sang their hit song, “Sympathy for the Devil”. After that, even the most optimistic of the hippies could see that the whole movement had turned into a horror show.

Those hippies who were really concerned about improving society and who weren’t just escapists, looking for cheap thrills, became a bit disillusioned with the concept of the hippie movement as a whole, or as a positive social force. They continued in their own ways either as individuals or as groups to try and implement positive changes. Many of them are still working from within society today for the betterment of society.

In many ways, the hippie movement affected the rest of society, although superficially. They affected clothing styles and hairstyles. They made long hair, ‘in”, and popularized bell-bottom pants and shoulder bags for men, etc. Probably the most obvious social change they brought about was public acceptance of drug use.

Before the hippies, only social misfits, hardened criminals, and the like, used drugs. Now, everyone in America was using drugs. Not every single person of course, but people from all walks of life. Drug use was now entirely socially acceptable and this hedonistic attitude spilled over to all parts of America and other parts of the world.

Toward the end of the hippie movement, the idealism and exuberance was gone and the emphasis was more and more on the individual.

This tendency to be more concerned about “my” own happiness, “my” pleasure, getting what “I” want, not doing anything “I” don’t want to do, influenced psychologists, psychiatrists, and other medical misfits.

They in turn used their influence to spread the “if it feels good, do it” philosophy of the hippies in a more respectable way than the hippies did. They got the “message” across to people in social positions and from certain walks of life that the hippies couldn’t reach.

Books like “Looking Out For Number One” and dozens of others like them appeared on the scene and became immediate bestsellers. These books emphasized getting what you want, and told the reader not to feel guilty in suppressing or exploiting others in search of “your” own happiness.

In short, the hippies laid the foundation for the “hedonization” of America, and then the “new-age” psychologists took over and turned hedonism into a refined art, making it socially acceptable.

The problem with hedonism is that not only is it temporary but leads to great frustration. Look at all the actors and the like that had “everything” that committed suicide out of frustration and misery.

The solution: take time to connect with God, meditate upon Him, dovetail your will with His, and you will experience true happiness and satisfaction. Take it from a former hippie that found that to be true.

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Hippie philosophy: Only sense gratification works

Short-term sense gratification leads to crime

Violence in contemporary societies is increasingly linked with home crimes as men and women are inclined to resort to whatever means essential to secure desired goods.

A kid steals a candy bar due to the fact he would like to enjoy the taste a youthful guy breaks into a property to steal a new stereo because he wants to enjoy listening to the most recent tunes a drug addict sticks up a grocery retailer, shooting the proprietor, in order to get the money he needs to get “high” a bank executive embezzles a million bucks so he can run off with his girlfriend to take pleasure in daily life in the Bahamas a female murders her husband so that she can gather on his insurance policy. So what is the widespread motive behind these crimes? The response clearly is the need for sense gratification.

Criminologists and social scientists have nearly totally overlooked the fact that materialism is the root lead to of crime. False identification of the physique as the self prospects folks to believe that sense enjoyment will make them content and content and most crimes are directly or indirectly linked with the attempt to locate fulfillment and sense enjoyment.

Day-to-day, the mass media — television, radio, motion pictures, magazines, newspapers, billboards, and so on. — saturates us with the message that the goal of life is sensual pleasure, and that accomplishment in daily life depends upon the acquisition of people objects that make this kind of sensual pleasure attainable. From a extremely youthful age we discover that we should strive to be the controllers and enjoyers of all we survey. We are promised that such “Lordship” is the way to satisfaction and happiness.

The criminal is just trying to adhere to this message the ideal way he is aware of how. He is just attempting to be the central enjoying agent — the Lord — that he has been taught he demands to be. So he needs gorgeous ladies. He needs a flashy vehicle, fine outfits, a big residence, all varieties of kitchen appliances, a big soft bed, a stereo, a VCR, a big flat display Tv, a gold watch, a yacht — he demands, he requirements, he requirements!

Considering that no sum of sense gratification is ever adequate to satisfy us, we often come to feel that we need to have “more”. From the poorest person to the richest man or woman, from the street particular person to the person who lives in a mansion, absolutely everyone needs far more sense gratification and a lot more materials wealth. If you are poor, you feel you need a bigger Television to be happy if you are rich, you truly feel you need a new yacht or a far more high-priced car. Ample is never sufficient.

So we have crooks from all revenue levels. The bad crooks commit crimes so they can get what they think they need the rich crooks commit crimes so that they can get what they feel they need to have. The street crook robs people so he can buy some nice outfits, a pc, and possessions of that variety the corporate crook robs organizations so that he can acquire 50,000 acres of land or a new Lear jet.

The truth that there are at least as several “wealthy” criminals as there are “poor” criminals properly destroys the materialists’ theory that the root cause of crime is poverty and the answer to the crime difficulty is to make everyone rich. Clearly, if poverty had been the cause of crime, then no wealthy individuals would commit crimes. Besides, the phrase “poverty” is relative. A poor American, for example, would be a wealthy Ethiopian.

In fact, criminals, no matter whether wealthy or poor, are criminals not due to the fact they are poor or wealthy, but because they are in the illusion that materials things — materials sense enjoyment — will satisfy them. And, of course, the reason they are in this illusion is due to the fact they erroneously identify their entire body as themselves.

And simply because our materialistic society considers the acquisition of wealth and electrical power to be the purpose of existence, the much more wealth and power you possess, the much more “successful” you are deemed to be. If you are materially bad, you are deemed a failure in existence, whereas if you are wealthy and potent (irrespective of how you acquired this kind of wealth and energy), you are regarded a fantastic achievement. So, obtaining material wealth is not only crucial for your direct sense gratification, but also for your emotions of self-really worth.

In other phrases, you really feel only as valuable as the issues that you possess and handle. Lacking appreciation of your genuine worth as an eternal, blissful spark of existence, a kid of God — falsely identifying the temporary physique as yourself — you try to obtain emotions of self worth by the acquisition and manage of materials items. To attain such financial development, you could finish up engaging in illegal activity — in other phrases, you may well become a crook.

Nonetheless, if you comprehend that you are not your physique, then you will comprehend that a existence of false Lordship and sense gratification will not satisfy you. Consequently, you will not see the gaining of material wealth and energy as the purpose of your daily life. You won’t really feel that you need items that in truth you do not really need to have. For that reason, you won’t be driven to consider to get some thing, “at any cost”– such as the price of your daily life, a person else’s existence, or imprisonment.

The most ironic point about a daily life of crime is that it is primarily based on a lie — the lie of materialism. The purpose little ones in bad neighborhoods idolize the regional hoods is due to the fact they think that such hoods are pleased. They see that by material standards the crooks are “successful”– they’ve received nice outfits, jewellery, flashy autos, the respect of others, pretty women, plenty of income, and so on. But if such youngsters knew that materials wealth and false Lordship were not synonymous with happiness, then they wouldn’t see crooks as successful. So it is this big lie — the materialistic notion of accomplishment — that leads to a lot of youngsters to stick to in the footsteps of the hoods.

Youngsters clearly would not be so eager to emulate these hoods if they knew that crooks are not genuinely content. So whether you are an educator, a producer of films, television demonstrates, popular music, or just a plain old mother, father, elder brother, elder sister, aunt, uncle, and so forth., you will actually support the children if you try to educate them that material wealth and energy are not synonymous with accomplishment.

Of program, no matter what you and I do, the huge lie will continue. The influential materialists are not going to inform the reality. As an alternative of telling the youngsters that the hoods are not satisfied even though they are wealthy, the materialist tells them that one day the hood will get caught and be sent to prison, and then he will endure. In prison, they say, the crook will be bad and powerless.

So in this way they are saying that the criminal is satisfied as prolonged as he is not in prison. Now, children know that criminals are seldom caught, and people who are caught are out of sight — no longer noticed by the children. Therefore, the criminals who are noticed regularly by those who are not in jail are the ones who are “happy”. So as far as the youngsters are concerned, crime does pay out.

Critical sociologists, criminologists, and psychologists sit all around doing million-dollar studies searching for the root trigger of crime. But they just can not seem to discover it, even even though it’s staring them right in the encounter.

Materialism is the root result in of the crime issue. But for the materialists to acknowledge materialism as the root lead to of crime would be a self-indictment — like pulling out the rug from underneath their very own feet.

Materialism is the foundation of their own personal lives it is also their avowed ideology. This whole consumerist,” success”-oriented society is based on materialism. To acknowledge materialism as the lead to of crime is to acknowledge that the root trigger of crime can not be destroyed without cutting out the quite heart of our contemporary, hedonistic “civilization”.

Unable to accept the bankruptcy of their “religion” of matter worship, they plead confusion and ignorance, and request for much more funds to do more studies. The reality is that the crime price will continue to remain higher as lengthy as folks are ignorant of their true identity and are bombarded with the message that far more sense gratification will equal much more satisfaction and happiness. As long as accomplishment in life is gauged by the quantity of materials items amassed, the crime problem can’t be solved.

The large fee of crime is a radical problem, one particular that requires a radical remedy. We, the masses of folks, need to fundamentally alter the way in which we see ourselves, the world, other individuals, and the purpose of existence. Such a re-schooling of the masses by way of the colleges and media would certainly take numerous decades at least. Nor is it likely that the effective economic forces controlling the mass media would cooperate in the work to produce such enlightenment. Following all, these forces have a vested curiosity in retaining us materialistic. These financial forces want us to be in a position the place we are always trying to take pleasure in our senses, but are never ever entirely satisfied. If we stay in such a “wanting” situation, we will continue to be consumerist zombies — straightforward to manipulate and to exploit.

We would stop being excellent “markets” if we stopped viewing sense gratification, and for that reason the acquisition of materials wealth, as the aim of lifestyle. In brief, we would be lousy slaves, no longer responsive to the promptings of advertisers promising satisfaction to whoever buys their product.

So it is unlikely that the powerful propagators of materialism and hedonism will do an about-encounter just to assist decrease the crime fee. As a result, we can anticipate the crime fee to carry on to climb.

This could quite well lead to the breakdown of our democratic society. During the United States, the cries for more law and order are acquiring louder. We are exhausted of being prisoners in our personal apartments. We want to be able stroll the streets once more with no fear of being raped, mugged, or murdered. We want the criminals behind bars.

This is only natural. External, socially administered laws, as effectively as prisons and jails, are meant for these person members of society who do not have, or do not abide by, internal laws. If you cannot or won’t handle your very own sensual wishes and actions, then society has to phase in and do it for you. The want to take pleasure in some sense object could pressure you to steal one thing, but you can say no to that wish. If you are effective at controlling your wishes and actions, then there is no want for society to handle your entire body for you. But if you cannot control your wishes and end up stealing, then the officers of an external control enter the picture.

The want for external manage exists when there is no inner handle. The cry for improved law and purchase is a petition for improved external manage. And it has come about since of the alarming boost in the number of men and women who have no internal handle — i.e., the boost in the number of hedonists.

The get in touch with for a crackdown on criminals has justifiably frightened several civil libertarians. They see it as a move towards totalitarianism and fascism. They, like most of us, feel that a police state is at least as undesirable as a society teeming with criminals. They properly worry that in our attempt to fix a single issue, we may end up producing an even larger difficulty. Unfortunately, however, although most civil libertarians are conscious of the dangers of America’s turning out to be a police state, they can not keep it from occurring. This is simply because they have no answer to the crime issue.

The much more society becomes like a wild jungle, the louder globe the cry for law and buy turn into. The demand for purchase is just a organic and inevitable reaction to the chaos. There was no way to preserve totalitarianism at bay unless the degree of crime is brought under management.

A totally free, democratic society can exist only as prolonged as most of the people within that society have at least a pretty very good grip on their senses. If we have been all entirely satisfied internally and if we could all handle our minds and bodies, then there would be no need whatsoever for laws or external forces of management, such as police. Of program, such a excellent society is not possible and practical terms. But, the a lot more internal handle more of us have, the less want there is for external controls over us. Conversely, the significantly less internal handle we have, the a lot more external forces are necessary to management us. So our freedom and democracy depends upon our ability to restrain and handle our wishes and actions.

The all-pervasive message of hedonism continually eats away at our potential, and even our want, to handle our senses. The mass media has successfully manipulated men and women into feeling that anybody who tries to control his senses is a weirdo or an outcast.

The homosexual isn’t odd — the celibate is. The promiscuous 17-12 months-outdated who has had 3 abortions fits in, but the 17-12 months-outdated virgin does not.

We have been taught that “free” people are people who do no matter what they feel like anytime they feel like it. In traditional Orwellian doublespeak, the media has labeled the enslaved “free” and has even produced these “free” souls really feel pity for people of us who are “enslaved” by so-known as “inhibitions”, “hang-ups”, and the “outdated belief” that we need to management our senses instead of currently being controlled by our senses. In this way, hedonism erodes the really foundation upon which our democratic society stands.

Men and women think that poor folks commit a lot more crimes because they really do not have as much as they require and this is why there is a whole lot far more poor folks in our prisons.

All this demonstrates is that poor criminals cannot afford lawyers to keep them out of jail. In addition, the varieties of crimes that bad crooks engage in are quite different from people carried out by the “‘ rich” crooks.

Each middle and upper class person who cheats on his tax return is stealing as considerably or much more than a burglar. And the IRS estimates that there are literally hundreds of thousands of this kind of tax cheaters. They bilk the government out of more than $ one hundred billion a yr, yet these men and women just aren’t caught, that’s all.

There are also millions of middle and upper class white-collar criminals, who are also never caught. The emphasis in law enforcement just isn’t on such crimes. The poor criminal has to do his point on the street level, in which there is a greater chance of confrontation with these who would stop him.

For that reason, there is not only a higher possibility of his acquiring caught, but also a better potential for violence. And it is the violence that law enforcement agencies have a tendency to focus on. So just simply because there are much more “poor” criminals in prison doesn’t suggest that there are more bad criminals.

The pondering that most “poor” criminals steal out of a genuine physical need is nonsense. Do you genuinely feel that the guy who robs a liquor keep requires that income and buys a loaf of bread for his starving mom? That’s pure naïveté.

Such petty thieves invest the cash on flashy clothes, cars, jewelry, and, a lot more than something else, drugs like cigarettes, alcohol, pot, heroin, and crack.

Studies have shown that most crimes are committed by a fairly tiny amount of thieves, every of whom commits hundreds of crimes a 12 months. These guys are mugging and robbing mainly for dope money. Otherwise they would be wealthy, right?

If a guy commits an typical of one particular of two robberies the day and averages say $ a hundred a hit, you’re searching at among $ 40,000 and $ 80,000 of tax-totally free dollars a 12 months. In other words, the so-known as “poor criminal” who commits most of the street crimes isn’t poor at all – unless of course you call someone with a $ 40,000 – $ 80,000 yearly cash flow, bad.

You may possibly feel that it is their addiction to the drugs that leads them to commit the crimes, and if their use of medicines is due to getting bad and annoyed, then poverty is the root lead to of crime.

But the reality is that the frustration due to becoming poor might be an fast result in of their turning to drugs and hence to crime – but it’s not the root trigger. If poverty have been the root trigger, then individuals who are not poor to commence with would not be frustrated and would not be turning to drugs. But men and women who have been wealthy their complete lives are also annoyed and also into medication.

A bad individual may possibly be annoyed due to the fact he sees all the ads for the goodies, but he doesn’t have the cash to purchase them – so he requires medicines to overlook his disappointment. The rich individual, on the other hand, has the goodies that are supposed to satisfy him, but they do not. So he’s also annoyed and he turns to drugs to forget his misery.

By the way, the “rich” man or woman may also turn to crime in order to assist shell out for his drug habit. But, due to his place in society, his crimes are less noticeable, so he’s significantly less most likely to be caught.

In any situation, it’s clear that the root cause of crime – at least in the West – is not the lack of the fundamental necessities of survival but the lack of wisdom and inner spiritual fulfillment.

Aloha!

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Short-term sense gratification leads to crime