Posted on 09/26/2015 6:14:45 AM PDT by dontreadthis
he hippie movement, if indeed it can be called a movement, confronts the curious observer as a strange paradox. On the One hand, it is generally held to be part of the New Left, itself a vague conglomerate of youthful and not so youthful malcontents, pronouncing the most frightful imprecations upon our society and culture, and threatening the most ferocious assaults upon things as they are. On the other hand, these hippies appear to be so harmless, so peaceful, so utterly absorbed in love and bongo. Where do they fit into the picture of the New Left? Who are the hippies, what are they? Most emphatically, they are not to be identified with the old-line beatniks, with whom they may have some tenuous historical connection. They do not have the truculence, the menacing air, the ideological ferocity of the old-line beatnik; they do not congregate in foul dens in the slums. They are the “gentle people,” sun worshipers, love-mystics. No, they are not beatniks; but what are they?
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I lived in the area back the. Was afraid to go out at night because of the Zodiac Killer.
The word HIPPIE is a feminization of HIP which, whether intentional or not was the same as HEP of the Beat Generation .... and all it meant was .. "I know"
I'm hip .... I'm hip to that
So the Hippie is just someone that claimed "to know"
I got out of the Army in '67 and couldn't WAIT to grow my hair and get high and laid a lot ...
but I did ... and I did .... AND I did, too !
MY drugs of choice were reefer and acid, sprinkled with psylicybin (sp?) and any other psychotropic
I was (and still am) fascinated with the entire concept of "thought" and the fact that I HAD thoughts
So like, wow, man ... I was HIP !
Can you dig it ?
I was never dirty in the sense that I would be always dirty, but I'm sure three days at Watkins Glen produced an aroma I wasn't aware of ... because we ALL were there
When I got home, certainly I bathed ... and prepared my excuse for why I missed work yesterday ... (They pretty much knew I was a dreamer, but also a good worker and personable and likeable)
I always held a job WHEN I WANTED TO because I always wanted drugs, beer, courtship money and the freedom money offered without the hassle of a car or commitment ... life was a party
Gradual maturation moved me many different directions until in 1981 I met Jesus and became a human being devoid of hair and hip talk
I learned Victorian English via the KJV and developed new and way more exciting thought processes
I wouldn't change a thing ... I survived and at (almost) 68 ... I'm REALLY hip.
my favorite Roneald Reagan joke
What’s the definition of a hippy?
Someone who Looks like Tarzan, Smells like Cheetah... and Walks like Jane
I don't know about that but I have heard that one thing that led to the decline of the hippie scene in SF was that the news about them drew in a rougher crowd more connected with biker gangs and amphetamines instead of pot and LSD.
In 1967 there was a "hippie funeral" parade in SF that was supposed to symbolically mark the end of the movement. There were Hells Angels in the parade. This was at a time when many people in the rest of the country were still first hearing about hippies.
The communist revolution in 1917 also “drew in a rougher crowd.”
A false understanding of human nature and of history leads to policies which are not only unjust but are also practical disasters.
Progressivism is vicious. I'm currently browsing through
Christian Smith, The Secular Revolution, University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles, 2003. It's a collection of essays by sociologists describing the rise of Progressivism. Archbishop Chaput mentioned it in an article in First Things. It's remarkable. It describes the way not just Christianity but theism as a determinative principle of philosophy and ethics was driven from among the leaders and shapers of culture.
I'm 8 years older than you (but fabulously immature.) My impression was that at home, at school, and at church (where Sunday school was taught by well-meaning but incompetent layfolk) Progressive secularism dominated. There was no depth to moral discourse. My mother, born in 1920 in London, studied economics with Keynes (! -- mom was hardcore), and was part of the Christian Socialist phenomenon, though the US in the 50's was not a safe place for the articulation of such thoughts. My father, born 1904, had no religion nor saw any need for it until something happened in his 50s. He was very private about it, and I have no idea of his thinking.
And THAT little fact is important. The idea of a father as a guide to "formation" in morals and religion just hadn't crossed his mind. To me that suggests a secular and utilitarian idea of parenthood.
So I think the hippies should be viewed not only in the context of other US naively utopian movements but as an inchoate response to the empty religiosity and shallow ethics of a culture which thought the Lord of all to be a private and emotional matter.
Yes.
Thanx for the memory .... right on.
I would have said diminutive rather than feminization. At least at the beginning it was about laughing at oneself.
But for me, a chance to get cleaned up was more pressing than a chance to get a meal.
They were times never to be repeated and I feel blessed to have been born in 1948 and having enough of an education that allowed my mind's eye to see.
Not saying I understood or agreed with what I saw ... but I saw it.
“the yippies looked like hippies...”
Reminds me of Wacky Packages’ “Commie Cleanser” from 1969. Appeared in some newspaper ads.
“Gets rid of Reds, Pinkos, Hippies, Yippies, & Flippies!”
This sparked angry letters to the editor from outraged lefties, one demanding to know “Just what is a `Flippie’, anyway!!?”
I guess...
The hippie movement and the so-called "counter culture" was naturally built up by the lib media who wanted the general public to believe all youth were dope-smoking degenerates who wanted some sort of "fundamental transformation" of society.
Read Johnathan Leaf's "Politically Incorrect Guide to The Sixties" to get the straight uh dope about those times.
These are the remains of a young woman named Holly Maddux being removed from the apartment of one Ira Einhorn,the MC of the very first "Earth Day".She had the audacity to leave him so he murdered her and kept her in his apartment,in this trunk,for several years.It was discovered because neighbors below him complained of foul odors and a strange ooze leaking into their apartments.He's doing life for murder now so we know where at least one well known hippie is.
And then there's Bill Ayers....
There's mosquitoes on the river. Fish are rising up like birds. It's been hot for seven weeks now, Too hot to even speak now. Did you hear what I just heard? Say, it might have been a fiddle, Or it could have been the wind. But there seems to be a beat, now. I can feel it in my feet, now. Listen, here it comes again! There's a band out on the highway. They're high-steppin' into town. They're a rainbow full of sound. It's fireworks, calliopes and clowns -- Everybody's dancing. Come on, children. Come on, children, Come on clap your hands. Sun went down in honey. Moon came up in wine. Stars were spinnin' dizzy, Lord, the band kept us so busy We forgot about the time. They're a band beyond description Like Jehovah's favorite choir. People joinin' hand in hand While the music plays the band. Lord, they're setting us on fire. Crazy rooster crowin' midnight. Balls of lightning roll along. Old men sing about their dreams. Women laugh and children scream, And the band keeps playin' on. Keep on dancin' through to daylight. Greet the morning air with song. No one's noticed, but the band's all packed and gone. Was it ever here at all? But they keep on dancing. C'mon, children. C'mon, children, Come on clap your hands. Well, the cool breeze came on Tuesday, And the corn's a bumper crop. The fields are full of dancing, Full of singing and romancing, 'Cause the music never stopped.
Hippies are anarchists and communists. Imho.
“Best part of the hippie movement was the lack of bras.”
That’s just because I couldn’t find a size 34 in a B cup.
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