Hippies....

Not within the parameters outline by Maani (born too late) but I've always had a hippyish outlook and have lived the lifestyle. Either that, or I was a slacker about 10 years before everybody else.

Edited by Syzygy

My hair is hippiesh and my lazy lifestyle as well.

No, not really

i feel the way that the world is being treated is unfairly with pollution and other things like it, i hate the way goverments run countries like U.S, and i had long hair(has been short for a week), and get called hippie all the time but ive never taken drugs which is considered a big part of being a hippie so after all that i dont know whether to call myself a hippie or not (if you dont count geographical or age rules)

Edited by Arnold Layne

Used to smoke, do drugs and alcohol, but not anymore, so the answer is:

NO!

Sadly, some of my colleagues have called me a hippy. So what, I have long hair and a tie-dye shirt (which is really a Jethro Tull shirt that just so happens to be tie-dye. But they're not happy colors I tell you! Not at all!). I think modern-day hippies are really useless. Nowadays, the only cause they serve is giving people something to laugh at.

emdiar wrote: Maybe so, as: I like a toke, and a lot of psych-prog. (HW, Gong, etc.) I loved a good festival, ('Henge, Reading, Glast. etc., back in the day.) My hair has been right down my back since I was 13, I'm 37 and have no plans to visit a barber any time soon. BUT....... I cringe as soon as anyone starts waffling on about leylines and auras and all that bollox. A scientific background has robbed me of the ability to stand by silently  whilst dopey wierdy-beardy tree huggers wax lyrical on subjects of which they are completely ignorant, and then endeavour to verify their gibberish by way of glib new age bumper sticker slogans, and vague eastern quasi-religious rhetoric. You'll always get a nice cuppa tea at my house! Jasmine passion flower melon flavour my arse! PG Tips mate, milk and two sugars, NO, not bloody biological unbleached cane sugar, the Tate and Lyle granulated white stuff! What are ya, some kind of hippy or summat??  Peace man! MDR

In any case, Em, at 37 you're far too young to have been a real hippy, as am I at 45.

The true hippy era was the late 60s ("summer of love," Vietnam war, etc). You would have been a toddler then, and I a mere boy.

The real hippies are in their late fifties to sixties (and older) now. Let's say you were a 22 year-old San Fran university student in 1967 for the Summer of Love -- you'd be 60 years old now.

If you were 24 at Woodstock in 69 (the year the dream was all to come crashing down), you'd also be 60 now.

I saw some of the hippy era as a boy, but by the time I was a teen, only the drugs and some of the fashions were left. The radical idealism was largely gone. Disco and coke were the popular American music and drug of my teens -- not hashish and Hendrix. (Though I rejected the former for the latter.)

The idealistic political activism, etc, was gone. Altamont (that disasterous Stones concert with 4 killed in 1969) is widely seen as the end of the hippy era. Rock music couldn't change the world, and youth were not united in any case.

John and Yoko were hippies. If still alive, Lennon would be 65 now. I turned seven the year Sgt. Pepper's came out -- you weren't even a gleam in your daddy's eye.

Some of us were the kids, or even the kid brothers of hippies, but precious few of us here are old enough to qualify for real hippy status.

"Hippy" implies more than the trappings that remained in the 70s (clothes, music, and drugs) -- it was a certain (earlier) era, and mindset, that was before the time of the vast majority of Prog Archives forum members.  

I can accept a teen, twenty, thirty, or forty year-old saying he is somewhat "hippy-ish," but they can't truthfully claim to be "hippies." Who here is old enough to have fought in Vietnam, or to have fought the draft?

Lots of hippy "wannabes' here, but could the 15 sixty year-olds please identify themselves?

Edited by Peter

no.

hippies annoy me because they don't bathe.

take a goddamn shower.





...just kidding, some hippies are ok.

I would reply by quoting steve Hillage (Green) lyrics:

"Unidentified
Don't put no label on me
Unidentified
Don't try to block my energy
Unidentified
May i remain a mystery
Unidentified
So my spirit can be free
Unidentified
Like the saucers in the sky"

I've been called a hippie before on account of the lazyness, the long greasy dreadlike hair, and the fact that i skip a lot of showers, but i wouldnt call myself a hippie just lazy.