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    Talking about hippies

    Somebody here asserted that they didn't like hippies, and it stung just a little bit because, aside from regular bathing and not using drugs, my view of the world is pretty similar, I think. My clothing is conservative and I don't blabble jargonesque when talking to some one, but that is more a function of being a grown up than having significantly divergent beliefs. I know other stealth hippies, at least two are more than 30 years my senior and could only be described as 'adorable.' So, what does a person mean when they say they don't like hippies? Is it the beliefs or the appearance? Is it the whole package or just a certain aspect thereof?

    And for you listening pleasure (maybe), Them Hippies Was Right.

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    What is a "hippie"?

    After having lived through the 60s, I can tell you that a pretty broad range of ideas fell under the hippie umbrella...
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      Always hated the term "Hippie",just freak was the term among the peeps themselves..hippie was a made up title from the "Straights" at the time.
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        When I was 8, my parents took me to Greenwich Village to have my portrait done in pastels. I remember seeing lots of people in "hippie" clothes in the streets, and I figured that's how I'd look when I grew up. LOL (I've actually been able to find some info on the artist, Chester Bloom, and apparently he did a lot of what's called Sports Pulp Magazine illustrations. Pretty cool.) By the time I got to high school, we didn't really dress much differently than those people I'd seen years before. Bell-bottoms, ponchos, long skirts, long hair, etc.
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          At that time it was Bohemian culture,more do what you want and not follow social constraints.
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            In theory, but in their non-conformity, they conformed.
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              Thats the trick...get everyone to be themselves by being everyone else....Like be unique by wearing jeans....that everyone is wearing to be unique..
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                Corbin, I was a kid when hippies were in their heyday, but I grew up hearing the songs and remember my dad telling my youngest uncle that he was not welcome at our house until he got a haircut. The songs are pretty much about peace and love and freedom and soul-searching and mind-expanding. I think of Bob Dylan and the Beatles.

                What words were in the air? "Make love, not war." "Never trust the Man." "Power to the people." "Be here now." "Follow your bliss."

                Of course, I saw it through the eyes of a child, not yet pubescent when the Beatles broke up. I remember the teenaged boy across the street crying in his front yard and and, when I asked, that is what he gave as the reason. It was lost on me at the time.

                Anyway, there was some bad, but there was a lot of good. On the whole, them hippies was right. imo, of ccourse.

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                  You have to also remember the Weathermen,the SLA,the bombings,and the crazy that also crawled out of the woodwork's..
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                    Originally posted by anunitu View Post
                    You have to also remember the Weathermen,the SLA,the bombings,and the crazy that also crawled out of the woodwork's..
                    Yeah, there was some bad. I think drugs had a lot to do with the bad stuff. I know it was instrumental in the SLA and Manson family stuff. Not so sure about the Weathermen, but probably. Hard to imagine another reason to think violence would end violence. That's another one, "Live and let live." As I've said for years, though, it only takes one a-hole to ruin a party.

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                      At the time a favorite saying was "Come the revolution",I knew people that used that like a mantra...those were the ones that went into the radical groups..
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                        Everybody was radical, because it was cool.

                        Sex and drugs and rock 'n roll, to say nothing of young ladies bursting to show how liberated they are...

                        Yup, those were the days.
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                          I hate hipsters because they come off as douchee in their need to be trendy 'with it' culture. I don't hate hippies. I hate hippy mentalities in general. I'm not all for love. I'm for war at times. I'm for being violent. I'm for being petty. I don't love my neighbor. And I don't want to smoke out in a room and listen to dead people play music I don't like. Usually because it's about love, peace and pot. It's not a hate for the people though. It's a dislike for the beliefs going on. I don't get it. i don't like it. It gets on my nerves. But I'm pretty much like meh, let people live.

                          I do not like hipster. I hate hipsters. I have a friend who is a hipster and I tell him all the time he's a douche. He wears big frame glasses, suspenders and an old timee haircut. Because he wants to show how much he is not a herd mentality type of person...by dressing in a herd mentality way.
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                            For me,I wear jeans because they are comfortable,and I worked where I needed cloths that would not get messed up by the work..Not for cool,but for working class jobs..
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                              Originally posted by nbdy View Post
                              Somebody here asserted that they didn't like hippies, and it stung just a little bit because, aside from regular bathing and not using drugs, my view of the world is pretty similar, I think. My clothing is conservative and I don't blabble jargonesque when talking to some one, but that is more a function of being a grown up than having significantly divergent beliefs. I know other stealth hippies, at least two are more than 30 years my senior and could only be described as 'adorable.' So, what does a person mean when they say they don't like hippies? Is it the beliefs or the appearance? Is it the whole package or just a certain aspect thereof?
                              I'm right there with you. I indetify as a hippie. I'm organic in just about everything from food to beauty products, I'm a staunch defender of the environment, and I try to DIY just about everything I can but I shower regularly, I dress a little bit boho, and I keep my drug use to weedy minimum. I don't get preachy about it or anything but there is definitely a judgement from others who don't get it. I like the term "stealth hippies." I might just borrow that from you.
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