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Hippy
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CaptainF
The Professional Poster
A lotta really crappy definitions goin' round.
Bozo Erectus
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Apparently 'hippyness' is any person or idea that you dont like, which is to the Left of you politcally. The drugs, long hair, B.O, spirituality and music preferences seem to be extras thrown in for good measure. The main thing seems to be leaning to the Left.
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
Now we're getting somewhere.
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
Yeah, a true cop out if ever there was.
There are a lot of leftists out there who are by no means "hippies".
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
Hypocrites that want everything handed to them.
Narz
keeping it real
Did you take that one yourself?
Hypocrites how? What do you base that on?
Perfection
The Great Head.
Hippies seem to pride themselves on independence and stability while leaching of the government.
Did you take that one yourself?
Heh! Naw, just a yahoo image search.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
The Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, and Haight-Ashbury. Oh, and Acid, lots of Acid.
Narz
keeping it real
Are you thinking of someone or some group specificly? I've been called a hippie before but I certainly make no claims about stability and/or independence. Most other people I've met who I'm consider hippies (I don't really consider myself one) are far from "stable" and make no claims about being so. I do admit to taking full advantage of the public library system though.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Don't confuse hippies with beatniks, or the other way 'round, either.
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
Narz
keeping it real
I tried to read Kerouac once but got bored quickly.
Beatniks seem to be counterculture just for the sake of being counterculture without any clear goals or ideals, whereas hippies seem to have more vision (generally something about harmony with nature, egalitarian society, etc.), of course hippies aren't much for sticking with their ideals (they all turned into office managers and now-aging soccer moms). Both beatiniks and hippies seem to have a pretty terrible sense of style.
Beatniks seem to be counterculture just for the sake of being counterculture without any clear goals or ideals, whereas hippies seem to have more vision (generally something about harmony with nature, egalitarian society, etc.), of course hippies aren't much for sticking with their ideals (they all turned into office managers and now-aging soccer moms). Both beatiniks and hippies seem to have a pretty terrible sense of style.
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
whaaaaa?
hippies were the ones who were counterculture for fashion
beatniks were mostly just poets. kerouac, IIRC, was very patriotic and disliked hippies. his views on being counterculture, i have no idea about.
Cheezy the Wiz
Socialist In A Hurry
Most hippies were rebellious middle-class teenagers who were tired of listening to their parents, saw what was going on in Haight-Ashbury, and moved to SF. A few people, as with all movements, really "got" it, but, again, as with any movement, most were just people looking to take advantage of the part of the movement that appealed to them.
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Hahahahaha...that one is much better than mine. I think I saw that guy in India once.
~Chris
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
exactly, that's why most abandoned it too. it wasnt them, they just liked the music and the portrayed purity in it. personally, i would have moved to the haight back then just for the music, the politics wouldnt have appealed to me back then. though i would protest the war after it got bad though.
angeleyes
mood indigo
Hippies: naiv people who think humans are good by nature but society has spoilt them (as if society isn't made by humans)
