Hippies....

Just wondering how many prog fans are also hippyish(?)

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

i'm not a hippie cause i do more for the planet than smoke herb

DEFINITELY NOT! 

... at least not today

 

emdiar wrote: asuma wrote: i'm not a hippie cause i do more for the planet than smoke herb That's just the sort of thing a hippy would say!

by that i mean that i have an accurate look on the way
the world works and i have an idea for how it should
change. instead of something like "corporations
suck, let's all live in the forest and do nothing to stop
them."

There is definitely a hippy in me who's been trying to get out since the '70s, but I prefer to be clean....... which isn't to say I don't still wear tie-dye....

I'm not sure if I qualify...does following the Greatful Dead for 6 months in my '68 VW bus make me a hippie?

BTW: I hope that Webster quote was not pasted directly...I'd hate to think they've slipped so far they can't be trusted to spell "psychedelic".

Dictionary.com says "A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles."

 

 

Got it in one, Blacksword!

voted for "Maybe so?". It depends on what mood I'm in. I like to call myself a hippy of the 21st century, but I think I'm in fact a 21st century schizoid man. And mr. Zappa didn't like hippies... but that was because of the masses. I don't like masses either.

All:

At the risk of sounding erudite (), there are, in fact, "parameters" that "define" the word "hippy."

The chronological parameter is mid-1966 to mid-1974: the "hippie movement" began when three things coincided (the anti-war movement, the availability of LSD, and the "free love" era, which was a "delayed reaction" to the repressed 50s (which actually ended in 1963)), and ended when two things coincided (the end of the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon).  It is actually amazing to note that the movement survived the break-up of The Beatles, Altamont and Kent State, among other potential movement-killers.

Socio-politically, it was not enough that one was hanging around half-naked in parks, smoking pot, tripping and making love.  One was also required to be involved in the civil rights and/or anti-war movements (it didn't hurt if you were also involved in  the animal rights (i.e., veggie) and/or ecological/environmental movements).

Fashion-wise, it was bell-bottoms or "flares," tie-dyed shirts, bandanas, and clogs or sandals.  Alternatively, "Eastern" dress was okay (Indian print shirts and skirts, draw-string pants, etc.).  Long hair was preferred (for both sexes), but not required.  And despite what most people believe, we were actually quite clean: after all, no one wanted to make love to a smelly person.

And although there were "hippie-like" movements in numerous countries around the world, a true "hippie" hailed from San Francisco (where legend, if not fact, has it that the movement started), or at least from one of the big cities (NYC, Chicago, Seattle, Boston, etc.), though even those in the "heartland" who truly followed the movement were accepted as "brothers and sisters."

Thus, many of you may have felt you were "hippie-like."  But unless you can claim to have existed within the above parameters, you could not have been true hippies.

Peace.  (And love)