Didn’t they say they smoked dried banana peels?
(Early 70’s )Time Mag got sucked in and reported the hoax as real news.
Sub-terranians, beatniks, hippies, Students for a Democratic Society,,,all made America smell bad, now it’s jell-o is the Demorats.. bad smelling, poison, jell-o...mixed with dried banana skins.
The losers who brought us mass Drug Addiction and STDs, no wonder PravdABDNC worships at their smelly feet.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I am from the last of the hippie generation... more the southern long haired southern rock, led zepplin, pink floyd, dead, pot smoking, tripping, gun owning and hunting variety....not apologetic for Dixie or Southern culture/heritage.
we have turned out not to be so terribly liberal though we were soft on civil rights....”In Birmingham they loved the governor but we all did what we could do...etc”
although....plenty of folks born tween the end of WWII and 1965 are secular progressives....especially those in academia and the journalism-media and entertainment
but it is folly to blame all today’s crap on hippies or boomers....hippies were never more than maybe 10% of boomers and btw....contrary to modern story telling....the vast majority of boomer college students were not radicals nor even marched.
that said.....gen x and gen y both vote much more left than do the boomers now....don’t argue....just google voting stats...that is because so many are brainwashed by the state and our culture...not those here obviously
and before boomers it was the boomers parents and grandparents who held power during the 50s, 60s, and 70s that gave us so much of the legislation and SCOTUS rulings that have so ruined our culture....laid the groundwork for affirmative action, quotas, infanticide, gun control, higher taxes etc.
the most conservative voting bloc we have right now are white married with children boomers or near boomers...hippies notwithstanding
hippies were drop outs from modern culture...into drugs and loose sex....which seems pretty innocent compared to today
hippies were not yipppies.....quite a different bunch
btw...the Left and Political Correctness is now what used to be called the Establishment
the Establishment then was staid but responsible....major media was part of it and considerably less openly leftist
It is this pseudo philosophy, which purports to be an extension of Socratic dialectics (discussion to discover truth) but which is actually the antithesis of Socratic dialectics (for it claims there is no such thing as truth) that enabled a large part of a generation to denounce American history and ideals and replace it with multi-cultism, replace Judeo-Christian beliefs with secularism, turn criminals into victims, and label hard-working people Capitalist pigs so that they could encourage the populace to legally steal their earnings from them to redistribute.
It also enabled them to redefine “love” and “marriage” so that they could whore themselves in an escape of self-serving debauchery and eventually spawn the acceptance of homosexuality, this to the not-so-laughable hypocrisy of denouncing priests who molest young boys (an attack on the Church) while demanding that “gay” scout leaders be allowed to lead boy scout troops, overlooking the common factor in these two issues: homosexual men in the authority positions that give them access to their prey.
They were also instrumental in adopting French post-modern thought, which is the grandfather of moral relativism and which sired gender studies, Marxist studies, feminist studies, colonialist studies, and racial studies, all from the same anti-American, pro-Communist perspective, which has utterly destroyed higher education. Yes, these can be interesting perspectives and a fresh view from the classical approach (objective critical analysis), but they should be offered as an alternative, not set up as entire degrees and programs that would eventually subvert entire institutions.
We are still paying and will continue to pay for a few generations at least, the bill they have foolishly rung up with their Socialistic programs. 3-5 trillion dollars later spent on the war on poverty and they are still complaining about the have’s and the have-not’s and bemoaning the divide between rich and poor. They want to take still more from those who work and sacrifice to give to those who won’t.
As I’ve said before on another thread, the leftist Baby Boomers, with their arrogance and selfishness, have caused so many troubles that the only hope of national recovery from those problems will be if we can keep alive the American ideals, the Judeo-Christian ethic, and the love of rugged individualism and liberty long enough to pass on to some patriots that can turn the country back to what it was after the last Leftist Baby Boomer is dead.
Peace, love activism. Disgusting Baby Boomers. Thank God I am a Generation X’er. I would be so embarrassed to be a boomer. My poor parents are the beginning of the boomers and they hate it. What a group of nasty people. Boomers definitely destroyed America and deserve the blame. Xer’s are trying hard to fix it but the damage is so bad that it will take the next generation to continue it. My parents born in 1946 and I was born in 1969.
Marxism + Debauchery + Drug Abuse = Hippie
ping!
The legacy of hippies is insanity and poverty.
To a hippie, the meaning of "peace" is something closer to the word "pacifism". It stems from a foundation of shifting sand, in which nothing is absolute, therefore nothing is worth fighting for. Violence is all equally wrong, regardless of the intent or outcome.
The word "love", to a hippie, is a twisted perversion that could be more correctly defined as "meaningless, uncommitted sex". Responsibility is shunned. Consequences for choices are "unfair".
Following the predictable play book of the propagandist, lefties redefine innocuous words in Orwellian fashion to erode the very fabric of our society.
"Peace" = cowardice and concession
"Love" = abdication of responsibility and promiscuous sex
"Progress" = socialism and class envy
...and B.O.
I lived with three dead heads my freshman year in college. Let me be the first to pick up the lead pipe.