Human Be-In, Polo Field, Golden Gate Park, January 14, 1967

^ the rest of the world was pretty fucked up then with wars, police beating the shit out of people, civil unrest, bigotry, corrupt politicians, etc. --- yet it seems worse now. why is that?

Alan, the Internet. We didn't really know what was going on then, did we? The news took time to get around.

I was up at Washington High in a pick up football game. We saw the parachutist drop on to the Polo Fields. Somebody said ...."hippies."

Grateful Dead at the Human Be-in

Viola Lee Blues

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lvH6gZH3j8

Morning Dew
Viola Lee Blues
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

Audio: https://archive.org/details/gd67-01-14.sbd.vernon.9108.sbeok.shnf

Also, some good stuff (contemporaneous reporting excerpts) here:

https://deadsources.blogspot.com/2017/03/january-14-1967-golden-gate-par...

Next year for the 60th anniversary, they should have Don Was be the Musical Director.   

Call it the Human Was In.

^this the rest of the  world was  is pretty fucked up then still with wars, police beating the shit out of people, civil unrest, bigotry, corrupt politicians, etc. .....

The more things change, the more they stay the same. 

>>>yet it seems worse now. why is that?

Because it seems we are heading toward Fascism instead of away from Fascism. 

Also there used to be a general optimism about the the technological future. Now we have global warming an AI on the horizon and very little trust in technology making things better. The age of Realism is dead. 

That's actually a great idea, Dave.