-A little Beatles to fit the mood- :-)
The 60's counterculture fascinates me. Democracy, liberalism, and revolution fascinate me. There have been sooo many different attempts to run a government. From communism, to a free market economy. And so far Democracy works the best, and even that has it's faults unfortunately. According to a Jeffersonian Democracy(The government at which we abide) you give up some of your rights to be a part of society and help each other. In return the governemnt helps you...well is supposed to.(we obviously need to work on this haha)It's a beautiful reciprocal relationship. But the problem is people don't get along. They NEVER will. There will always be differing in beliefs, opinions, and ways of life, and there's no changing that. However, the hippies tried to deny that fact by learning to love each other through music. They believed that music will reunite everybody and set them free, it's quite beautiful actually. You know the idea that we don't need money, or cars, or materialism, or jobs to get along in society, that all we needed was love. It's a nice thought, but like most ideas, don't work in practice. The hippies eventually died out, but their cultural revolution made an ever lasting mark in American History, if nothing else we all learned that " In the end the love you take is equal to the love you make." <3 
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