Summer of Love 2017: Remixed
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Fifty years ago, in 1967, some 100,000 hippies came together in Haight-Ashbury for the famed Summer of Love. They gathered to celebrate an ethos of love, generosity the pursuit of meaning and expanded consciousness.
While psychedelics were a not infrequent part of the culture, the bigger pursuit took the form of a counterculture revolution. It was about changing the dynamics of power, expression and connection. About casting off oppressive norms and rediscovering "freedom."
That same exploration, those same questions, are alive and well some 50 years later. Today's short riff is a bit of a "spoken word" piece on the idea that, when it comes to the quest for freedom, what's old is new again.
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| 0:20.4 | So about 50 years ago the summer of 67 some 100,000 hippies converged in hate ashberry in |
| 0:30.2 | San Francisco for what then became known as the summer of love. They were coming together to |
| 0:36.2 | ask bigger questions to buck convention to explore how they wanted to live, to challenge |
| 0:42.6 | authority and constraints and what's really kind of fascinating to me is now 50 years later, |
| 0:48.1 | a half a century later. I think that so many of us are grappling with those same questions and |
| 0:53.2 | we are exploring how we want society to look and how we want to relate with others and what matters. |
| 1:01.4 | So I thought it was an interesting time to reflect on one of the big slogans of that time and also |
| 1:06.9 | a figure who offered that slogan who is fairly controversial but the fundamental idea of what |
| 1:13.3 | happened I think is really worthy of revisiting. That's where we're going in today's Good Life |
| 1:19.2 | Project riff. I'm Jonathan Fields. This is Good Life Project. Right now I want to share a little |
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