Where is Everyone?
\n\u00a9 Copyright, Frank W. Andres, 1983, 2012, 2015.<\/p>\n
They were philosophers, gurus. They smoked their weed, settled back
\nwith drinks and talked of the world. There was a philosophy. There was a
\nfaith. Actually, the pot powwows were antecedents, of sorts… precursors of a
\nworld they hoped would exist some day. Woodstock was a national
\nmanifestation of this philosophy. There was hope for real Love between
\nbrother and sister. Affinal groups sprang forth. Children ran naked under the
\nwatch of their ‘uncles’ and ‘aunts’. They talked their talk, sometimes with the
\nhelp of great books,… usually not. Somehow there was the faith that if one
\ntalked enough, even babbled enough, wrote enough… truth somehow would
\nemerge. This was inherited from the Beats.<\/p>\n
But it all dissipated in a cloud of smoke. Now in the 1990’s there are no
\nhippies left…except for me. And I never felt a part of all that. Ironically I,
\nthe non-participant, absorbed everything and continued the work…
\ndeveloping 12-tone scale music, working on answers to intellectual problems,
\nanswers to real problems…working in a systematic manner to help solve
\nproblems that those dazed minds in the past…thought they were considering.
\nLike Annie Lennox, naked, in tears, crouched on a bare floor, singing a
\n‘Whiter Shade of Pale’… a song whose lyrics are stream of
\nconsciousness….the type of strategy the Beats felt would lead to truth…welI,
\nshe sings such a song, looking around and asking, ‘Where is everyone?’
\nWhere did they go? Where did all that faith in a process go?’…Everything
\nfrom that era has disappeared … Even the songs from that age that chanted
\nthe hippie faith: ‘He’s my Brother,’ Thunderclap Newman… are never played.
\nLike Annie…I am alone, sad, yet hopeful. Somehow the past will spark and
\nbegin the conflagration promised by those times. There was no revolution…
\ninstead everyone put on a suit and tie…and joined the corporation. Then all
\nthat crumbled. Now everyone works at McDonald’s. Yes, perhaps in a way
\nevolution has replaced revolution, away from highly paid do-little jobs…now replaced by computers… everything is now falling from the top, downward,falling from the city…towards the land…and, according to the hippie
\nequation, I guess…hopefully, towards Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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