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Posted on 06/21/2007 7:30:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
I never quite understood the “free love” thing. Where the hell was mine?
Actually, all of that didn’t start with the Hippies. It started with Marx and trickled down over a century. Hippies were the end result of cultural and societal rot and dissolution envisioned by 19th and early 20th century radicals.
"I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about “protectin’ the earth” and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate ‘em! I wanna kick ‘em in the nuts!"
"Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
"Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding."
"Dolphins, eskimos, who cares? It's all a bunch of tree hugging hippie crap."
The fact that Cartman said that BEFORE Fudgepack Mountain came out made it all the more dead on the money. ;-)
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I know! Parker and Stone seem to have a prophetic gift.
I tend to agree. I’m familiar with the efforts of The Frankfurt School, and “Intellectuals” like Sarte, but I responded the way I did because I come from the age group (1951) that was attracted to the “hippy culture.” I know firsthand, the ravages of the drugs and the nihilism they fostered, and I’m sick to bucktoothed death of hearing 1960’s retreads applauding themselves.
Who would have ever thought a few dirty long haired hippies of 40 years ago could cause all of this crime, lawless borders, gangs and political corruption we are experiencing today.
That episode was just on earlier this week. A real classic, maybe the best episode ever. That’s the kind of episode you want to end the series with.
“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”
—Ronald Reagan
Part of the reason why the hippies exploded as they did was unintentional as well. So many of their parents had endured the Great Depression and WW2 and remembering their hardships and vowing their children wouldn’t have to share in that, they gave their kids all the best they could, in many instances, spoiling them rotten. Ironically, it wasn’t the children of the working classes that made up the bulk of the “movement”, but those of the middle and upper classes. So many of those same people today may dress “better”, but still share the same misguided and devastating cultural and social values. The Clintons, for example (though it was clearly Hillary that more embraced the liberation philosophy after she was indoctrinated in college, Bill was just a charming lower-class slob).
What I find truly revolting is that this nit wit teaches journalism at a university. What a lying scumbag. The counterculture and liberalism wrecked the family unit, and sunk untold billions of dollars into the black hole of welfare that crippled the wills of generations. Their protests were for an enemy that murdered the innocent and continues to do so today.
Socialism, counterculture, that is why I always keep the same tag line now.
Talk about pathetic searching for a legacy. Just like Clinton.
Left wing activism and anti Americanism honored and cherished? I think I am going to be ill .....
Actually, in some ways, yes. That’s where he gets all his googoo eyed notions from which have proven so disasterous to acheving his overall objectives. Imagine if, on the other hand, he had more of an 1840s attitude than an general 1960s attitude.
Another example would be about 80% of the 50somethings who live in my hood, and are VPs and execs in some big and medium name corps.
Marx was something of a prude and hectoring moralist.
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