you realize, this is janis joplin before she was known, before she had ever done her first album, before she had ever done her first single. looking out at the rain sun came along, honey it s just music at its freshest. it s music that is just being born. and the audience is like and i said, oh, whoa, whoa, well honey this can t be, b-b-b-babe, but now, no, no, no, yeah why, oh, why, people, tell me why love, honey, why love was like, was like a ball and a chain
these people are hippies. they represent a new form of social rebellion. it is hard to figure out what positive things they are in favor of. the reason we can no longer identify with the kinds of activities that the older generation are engaged in is because those activities are, for us, meaningless. they have led to a monstrous war in vietnam, for example. we did want change from war, from rigid ideas of what the sexes ought to be doing. a change from black people ought to be here and white people ought to be here. no. why can t we try and make that work? the haight-ashbury community has created a council for a summer of love in san francisco. the council is calling for creative love happenings for every weekend throughout the summer. we ask all who come here to come here in love and we ask all who
live here to greet all men with love. they at their best are trying for a kind of group sainthood, and saints running in groups are likely to be ludicrous. they depend on hallucination for their philosophy. this is not a new idea and it s never worked. it was sort of a divide of generations. a lot of mistrust. young people didn t trust old people. old people didn t understand young people. what s so offensive about long hair? it looks sloppy. [ laughter ] [ applause ] it doesn t differentiate the boys from the girls enough. we didn t call ourselves hippies. the hippies are a fabrication. they were an attempt to diminish young adults and infantize us, and it certainly serves to exclude the people that were deeply thoughtful about the world, that were ready to dedicate their lives to making change and had questioned the
done her first single. looking out at the rain sun came along, honey it s just music at its freshest. it s music that is just being born. and the audience is like and i said, oh, whoa, whoa, well honey this can t be, b-b-b-babe, but now, no, no, no, yeah [ cheers ] why, oh, why, people, tell me why love, honey, why love was like, was like a ball and a chain [ cheers and applause ]
at its best, the counterculture came in with hard punches to the mainstream culture. people have already changed their minds about contraception, abortion, premarital sex. the 1960s were absolutely a sexual revolution. because of the pill, women could take charge of their own bodies. they could be sexual. they didn t have to get pregnant. everything sort of coalesces. the perfect storm of societal forces come together. here, if you love somebody, and people here love everybody, if you want to make love somebody, then you should. there s no reason why you shouldn t. free love was all well and good, and there was a lot of accidental sex. [ laughter ] but we didn t look at it as hedonism. people were just so open to each other, and life was beautiful, you know, and people weren t judgmental. the mainstream young people were telling their parents, you ve been prohibiting my sexual freedom, and the puritan