Up, Up And Away…
So this has been the dawning of the Age of Aquarius? It seems that the world has forgotten the age of Hippies heralding in the age of enlightenment and freedom. Is astrology and was the hippy era just a drug induced hallucination that ended with the death of disco and the introduction of techno?
There is something to be said about popular culture in the 60s and 70s. It was a happy, musical, carefree aspiration to a better existence. It just seemed to have died along with love and happiness and as an ultimate ideal.
Has mankind become more selfish, self-centred, and less humanitarian? Have flowers, LSD, Love, and Happiness given way to the sins of gluttony, excess, and monetary gain to the exclusion of what is truly important?
With all the unrest, wars, political struggles it seems that the Hippies were freer within a rigid political structure than we appear to be in modern democratic times. It was foretold that we would steer to an even more conservative time before we would be free. World governments seem hell bent in gearing up to move back to conservative regimes. Is this the Birth of Nanny States?
Let’s hope that this too shall pass. I wish I had been a young adult during the Hippy dawning of the Age of Aquarius. It just seemed more purposeful than the strive for yuppieness.
To quote the “The 5th Dimension”, “Workin’ On A Groovy Thing”.
