Whats wrong with "hippies"?

Masqua, you have more self control than I, I would have banned this MMP troll a while ago. He is obviously just trolling and being obnoxious.

JohnnyCanuck I love your avatar man. Keep on truckin.

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you know what? the only people who have closed minds are the ones who are so readily assuming everyone else has the closed minds... read a book, gain some knowledge, open your eyes... none of this means anything to you though, that is plainly obvious, you are already dead set in your opinions and aren't even willing to assume that you are wrong... try judging yourself, which i am sure you are incapable of doing, since you have made it obvious to all who read your blind posts that everything is wrong unless you say so, you are right, you are always right, everyone else is wrong... do you not see the problem in your thinking? no you couldn't, but please, now it must be my turn to be judged by you, you, who doesn't know me or anything about what you even talk about... go back to war.. have you convinced everyone yet? you know, that you are all powerful and all knowledgeable? yeah, good luck with that
how is that god complex working for you?

Well, mainly a lack of hygiene. And an unfortunate fascination with pachouli.

Then there's the entire "new age" thing they often seem to be fascinated with, which probably is linked to an unfortunate paucity of math and science education.

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Hey - I love tie-dye!

I never heard anyone badmouth hippies but maybe they do it behind my back, lol. After all, I have several pairs of fringed boots

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What's wrong with them?!?! Just look at them! They are hippies....Hippies!!!
Friggin hippies....

Originally posted by masqua

Originally posted by Annee
Drugs (other then marijuana) were actually the downfall and major degenerating cause of the demise of what the original hippie movement was about.

The drug movment was actually a separate movement that just happened to coincide at the same time in the same area as the political movement started by 4 college students.

That's right. Especially certain crystaline drugs that made people crazy. Drugs of those sorts were avoided by those who had two brain cells to rub together.

Nobody really understands what happened in such a short time. Music, philosophy and a large contingent of WWII veterans' children somehow were presented with a unified thought... that of togetherness and a gutteral dislike of the Viet Nam war. From those early days, millions of others came in to join in the fun... but that's all it was... just fun. They thought it was a toga party and everybody could go all Dionysian and get wasted.

That's why the movement didn't last long... above ground

We're still here, we still feel the same way and have passed on our ideals to our children. You can squash a hippie, but you can't kill an idea.

John Lennon... here's to you. We still love you. Imagine.

Thank you. Yes! You had to be there - to be part of it to truly understand.

Its hard to imagine that the music scene completely changed almost over night. Artists who were #1 headliners - - found their careers non-existant almost over night.

A bit of unknown history: I was a senior in high school when the Beattles landed at LAX for their first Los Angeles tour. Agents/promoters of some sort came to the high school to recruit girls to be at the airport to scream and make a scene for the media cameras. Almost no one knew who the Beattles were. When you view the footage of that scene of them landing at LAX - - you now know - - it was staged.

Yep. As evidenced here, the truth stings liberal statist hippies. The hippie is an aging cryptofascist wearing the camouflage of self-righteous indignation, an ersatz "free spirit'. He dons a live-and-let live facade that masks a desire to monitor and quash free thinking, and to destroy opposition.

The hippie hates self-improvement that runs counter to statism and fascism, and he wants nothing more than to see the failure of the merit-based capitalist system that made western culture the most advanced and safe society in the history of the world.

I will direct anybody that is interested to David Horowitz' excellently researched, referenced and indexed "Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odessy". This is the story of an ex hippie that changed his tune once the hatred of his hippie colleagues resulted in the cold blooded murder of several of his closest friends.

Another good one by Horowitz is "Radical Son: A Generational Odessy." Here, he very carefully examines the cancer of the hippie movement, how it contributed to the AIDS pandemic, the wildfire spread of drugs, and the hippies' support of murderous political regimes even with foreknowledge of the mass murders these regimes committed.

The most interesting and noteworthy aspect of Horowitz' work is his ability to dissect the internal motivations and the confusion of the hippie and those entrapped by the 60s counterculture movement. He very clearly elucidates the way that the immaturity of the hippie demographic cluster morphed into a sociocultural cancer.

If you are interested in how the "hippie" has contributed directly and proximately to countless cultural, social, medical, economic and political ills, Horowitz' work is critical.

Originally posted by Bedlam
Well, mainly a lack of hygiene. And an unfortunate fascination with pachouli.

Then there's the entire "new age" thing they often seem to be fascinated with, which probably is linked to an unfortunate paucity of math and science education.

Yes. Your hippie works hard at distancing himself from basic courtesies and social expectations, even those as basic as hygiene and personal sanitation. this is how deep seated his hatred for his father, grandfathers, country, society is.

By the by, in the interest of historical documentation, here is King Hippie - then and now: