#41 Happiness - Where are the Hippies and How the Media is Powerful
Happiness Podcast
Dr. Robert Puff, Ph.D.
4.5 • 955 Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2014
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In this podcast, Dr. Puff explores how in the 1960s, there was a Hippie Movement in response to the wealth growth of our world. Why isn't there one now? We will look at the power of the media and our thoughts to destroy our happiness. To learn more about the Happiness Podcast, go to: http://www.HappinessPodcast.org. To explore Dr. Puff's Corporate Workshops, go to: http://www.SuccessBeyondYourImagination.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. In the 1960s our world became |
| 0:17.7 | wealthier and in response to that wealth there was a counterculture called the hippie movement. The hippie movement said, wealth may be fine, but too much wealth isn't good for us. So what we need to do is go against that wealth, spend time in nature, find peace and |
| 0:36.1 | happiness in what's here and now, and not being so called up into the wealth addiction, |
| 0:41.4 | because wealth isn't going to make it happy. Now there was a lot more aspects to the hippie movement of course, but this was part of it. Part of it was we needed to find that wealth isn't the solution to everything and also that wealth |
| 0:57.0 | won't necessarily make us happy. We don't need wealth to be happy. We can find happiness and other things besides money. |
| 1:05.0 | Now clearly there was a lot more aspects to the hippie movement besides anti-wealth |
| 1:10.3 | addiction but what I want to explore in this podcast is, given that we're |
| 1:15.4 | living in another wealth explosion, another wealth addiction, why isn't there |
| 1:20.1 | another hippie movement? What happened? I mean there ought to be because there's a lot of people |
| 1:25.5 | that are very addicted to wealth right now and they think that wealth, if they're wealthy enough, |
| 1:30.2 | they're going to be happy. Of course we know listening to this podcast that that's not true. |
| 1:34.8 | But the real question is, why isn't there a hippie movement again? Why isn't there a large part of our culture |
| 1:42.4 | going against this wealth addiction? |
| 1:45.4 | Why? |
| 1:46.8 | And the answer is going to be very important for those of us that are seeking happiness |
| 1:50.9 | that want to be happy in this life right now. |
| 1:55.0 | And here's the big difference. |
| 1:57.3 | In the 1960s, we had television, we had radio, we had media, but it wasn't very strong yet. There are only three main television |
| 2:06.0 | stations and companies hadn't become that sophisticated in marketing yet. Well, in the 21st century that has changed. They are pros at it. |
| 2:17.0 | And what they've learned to do is they have taught us, they have brainwashed us into believing that we need things in order to be happy and the more |
| 2:26.0 | things we have the happier we're going to be. I mean brainwashing works and it sounds like a dirty |
| 2:32.3 | word but it's really not. Think of it more like a |
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