The desire to create a spiritual adventure through drugs, and the drive to escape from reality is what make the original Woodstock something that can't be replicated. There will never be another Woodstock. That being said, I'm not saying this is trying to be Woodstock 2.0, just that nothing else exists like it.
The current generation that would be old enough to be the classical 1969 hippy hasn't faced the same political adversity either. The people that went there originally are too old and fat to do it, that, or dead from drug overdosing. 99% of them are probably the latter.
I'm happy to see how this goes but, it's kind of sad we'll never likely never see a music and cultural movement like that again.
Would love to make it, but I'm broke.
Was always a childhood dream, but I've come to grips with it. There will never be "another" Woodstock like the original anyway.
I'll just project the 4 jour documentary and get really high and bittersweet lol
You’re living in a cultural movement right now! You just won’t realize it until your and old person!
i’ve heard Burning Man is a pretty crazy experience if you’re into spiritual exploration through drugs.
idk, there's a lot of boomers joking about how right now isn't as bad as the 60s yet It seems like its much worse than the 60s because there's now a hardened anti revolutionary response in the government and a massive radical conservative political apparatus as well as an endless war with a nearly unlimited scope against terrorism anywhere in the US with a national security and counterdrug apparatus that was simply unthinkable in the 60s.
ya people aren't parking themselves all over san fransisco getting high constantly and there's no draft but things seem worse in every other way
Doesn't help that any and all attempts by our generation at "revolution" start and end with inventing genders, crying about video-game representation and harassing people on twitter.
Boomers are wrong when they say we don't have it hard. but they're absolutely right when they call us fragile and useless. I'm sorry, but every attempt I see at fixing shit, is nothing by empty flailing and noisy tantrums.
It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to realise that it's damaging to LGBT people that mentally ill people trivialise their hardships by forgoing treatment relevant to their bipolar disorder or anxiety in favour of constantly harassing people who didn't guess their weekly pronoun.
It's pretty lame looking that our generations attempt at fixing the final few hurdles of gender inequality is to invent new ones and have male journalists self-flagelate on social media to suck up to quite unsympathetic twitter feminists, rather than firmly and clearly address the few real issues left in the west and acknowledge how far we've actually come, how much has been accomplished and how close we are...
It's disheartening to watch 30-somethings from dying gaming outlets behave like emotionally unstable crybabies over how video-games attempt to portray real human issues like bigotry and mental illness by deliberately misrepresenting said portrayals as the devs own takes on the issues.
You're absolutely correct that generally, conservative old people are holding America's future hostage. but the way the wind is blowing, millennials will be doing exactly the same in a different way in less than 15 years. People have become stunted in their ability or willingness to be reasonable and open to discourse. Tantrums rule the internet and it rules politics as well. It's disgraceful to watch the same behaviour we called out in conservatives 20 years ago be so easily copied and leveraged on "progressive" end of the political spectrum... by the same damn people who used to be right there with us, calling said behaviour out!
hopefully this time no one gets smushed with a tractor
Saying that something similar can and will never happen again is naive.
Wow we've got a brain genius right here.
millenials, genx and everyone else growing up past the golden age of the 50s and 60s already do not fetishize capitalism and support by in large, government intervention into the economy and regulation as well as being able to see past the wall of misinformation put up by the conservative media sphere.
The thing misunderstood about the 60s counterculture is that most boomers were always conservative, there wasn't some magical liberal at 20, conservative at 30 moment, they grew up in a conservative environment. Today the world is so totally different, we see the generations of young voters are rejecting empty centerist pragmaticism, rejecting right wing conservatism, and demanding the government actually do what is needed to fix the world and this country.
Trump looses below 45's by an astounding number, and even the most seasoned republicans like mcconnell are seeing smaller and smaller victories
From reading the article, it sounds like this'll be a more straightforward, commemorative music festival rather than what we saw in '94 and '99, which is for the best really.
it will be a bunch of people pretending to be hippies vaping. times back then with music and culture were important to the movement, now people don't really care so much.
that being said, the music will probably be pretty good.
There was also that whole civil rights movement thing
I don't know, Green Day in 94 at Woodstock was iconic and memorable. Will anyone remember this in 2 years time?
Does anybody really need to say that though? Is another hacky, corporate festival really the best way to honor the memory of the original Woodstock?
The next Woodstock will be crowdfunded, and it won't be called Woodstock.
This post reminded me of the best bit from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
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