232. What went wrong? - the hippie challenge, extra contribution
What went wrong? It petered out, but never died,
but many got completely lost on all those crooked ways,
not only vanishing in drugs with permanent brain damage,
like almost all the friends of Cassidy and Kerouac,
but above all in all those flummeries and weird deceptions
masked most commonly in saviour-like attractiveness;
but all those 'movements of religion and philosophy' with business interests
were naïve and innocent compared with the political reaction,
when demonstrations were stamped down with brute police force
and the FBI let all drugs loose to swamp the Woodstock concert
in political premeditated purpose to commit and trap
and rape the flower power movement into drug addiction.
This was never proved nor disproved, but the accusation
has grown stronger with the years
and also more persistent, loud and clear.
Of course, war ruined everything, the Vietnam war
in escalating madness after the assassination of John Kennedy,
who at an early stage saw the necessity to stop it and who tried to do so,
which was why he was assassinated by psychotics who could not accept it,
brought all America, the leader of democracy and of all nations,
morally in disrepute and in disdain, the bottom reached, we thought, by Nixon,
but, alas, there were administrations worse than his
who stolidly refused to learn the lesson. Still, the hibernating hippies
never stopped encountering new springs,
the music constantly increased the flow,
not even drugs could stop the freedom liberation of the mind
in idealistic aspiration, like an urge of irresistibility
for beauty, fantasy, constructiveness, creativeness and goodness.
Love and truth and beauty never died and never will
but will go on exploding and refuting backward world order forever.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-09-30 at 13:16
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