Look at it. It's awesome isn't it? And just by looking at the highly decorated building you feel just a bit cooler don't you? That is the goal. This photo is of a store called Hippie Gypsie the meca of the peace loving college student.The outside has images of 60's music icons with the coexist sign to show how tolerant they are. The store is decorated in true 1960's fashion, old mismatched rugs, insences everywhere, dim lighting, not to mention the music setting the mood, The Greatful Dead, the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix all giving off the feeling that you are an individual with your heart stuck in the past. But why is it so important to have a place that emphasizes the hippie culture? Because in this day and age with war running rampant, poverty and hunger spreading, national debt at an all time high, it seems people are trying to go back in time to an era of extreme activism due to the extreme issues. Many people feel the need to get involved to help change the world. The only issue with returning to that time is that many of the people attempting the transition do not understand exactly what the free love movement was about. Most hippies were about freedom from material possesions and the constraints of society. Many didn't have jobs, or expendible income because those things were what they were trying to put an end to. It is unrealistic to believe that we could return to that time when material gain is what our world is about. Everyone has a cell phone, or a car, they have a laptop, or a television even if someone tried to live a life similar to that of the free spirited hippies of the 1960's they would fail, to ever escape all the materialistic expectations of our world would be impossible.
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