Posted on 10/12/2010 6:39:17 AM PDT by decimon
This is a memo to America’s hippies:
Tea Party values are hippie values.
You heard me right. The Tea Party is the one social movement in contemporary America that can rightfully claim to be the ideological heir to the original hippie movement that started in the mid-’60s. And because of this, all current hippies and ex-hippies should support the Tea Party, and by extension Tea Party candidates.
I’d like to have a private heart-to-heart talk with my fellow hippies here, so can the rest of you please stop reading now and leave us alone for a while? Thanks.
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Nonetheless...
Hippie: Those looking for the freedom to conform.
We all conform. Those free conform voluntarily and as to their choosing.
Oh dry up Dursley...
and that chart is seriously, well, just wrong.
Islamists are for ‘individualism’? Really?
I’m sorry, ‘inate human nature’... as being natural and not constructed.
Tis very ‘constructed’.
I’m right in the area between Tea Party and Hobo, with the Hippies off to my left.
Not according to the chart.
What is a Trustifarian Anarchist? New one on me.
Given your tag, is that the Beer Party?
I’m more of a sterno man ;-)
A trustifarian is someone living off of inheritance while playing at being counterculture.
Ah, an outdoorsman. Good, good.
They have private money (TRUST funds), smoke dope and like ska and Bob Marley’s music (rastaFARIAN) and they think rules do not apply them.
The ones I have known are quite far left to the point of being Marxist, meaning they want a dictator to keep everyone else under control in accordance with the trustafarian anarchists’ desires.
Illogical and convinced that they are superior, as well.
I don’t know, but they might be the “crash the Tea Party” folks. I had a wierd e-mail interchange with one of them in which I was so maddened by his double-think—asserting that he was an anarchist, but that he opposed the Tea Party because it would ‘hurt the poor’ (by cutting government transfer payements)—that I suggested he complete the absurdity of his position by organizing a group called “Anarchists for Big Government” and registering it as a 527.
There were several “trustifarians” at Yale when I was there, including one who was a classic hippie girl in every sense except for having a nationally recognized name and being heir to a fortune. I don’t think her principles extended to donating her fortune rather than living off of it. A lot of it probably ended up with various far left organizations though.
I’m a member of the “Woodstock” generation, and I could have been there, but, didn’t go because it seemded a hassle to get there. We were all about doing your own thing.
Now, I sit at a board meeting of our Temple and listen to members of the Woodstock generation angry at people who smoke tobacco in our parking lot, and wanting to make it a “smoke-free campus,” which we have as legal right to do. It is our property. But the idiots don’t even want to have a smoking section on the parking lot with an ash receptical. I told them that the Woodstock generation will defy their rules and leave butts all over the parking lot.
I understand how that happened. We were never about doing YOUR own thing. We were about doing MY own thing. A huge distinction.
That's become a familiar theme. The plot remains obscure.
Being in college should be on your list, Hippies were rare, not like what the word describes today, you could not be a true hippie, yet attending college and living the life of a straight, dress, drugs, and weekend rock concerts did not make a hippie.
They were non political, they were back to the land people, and they were deliberate drop outs from the establishment that wanted the government, and the establishment to leave them alone, hippies were not picking up degrees and striving for credentials to run the establishment.
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