Are You a Hippie ?

Easy Money wrote: ^ Re 'freaks' -In the states, in the mid-70s, if a person was 'cool', was comfortable around herb, wasn't uptight or judgemental, and hip to the right cultural cues, they were called a 'freak'. ie "You know so and so, yeah, they're total freaks". If you wanted to let your friends know that someone was 'one of us', then they were referred to as freaks. Hippie was already passe and considered a joke. Punk hadn't hit the heartland yet.

I don't doubt what you are saying is consistent with your experience of the US, but I've honestly never heard of such a critter (and neither have any of my Scottish contemporaries)

Perhaps social evolution cancelled its headlining tour of Scotland ?

Dean wrote: The Hippy Movement died in 1969, the vestigages of which trickled through into the Glam/Prog era, but only as a fashion and music development, not as a lifestyle.

Yep, the Diggers even had a death of the hippie parade in 1967. 

From the Wiki:
"By the end of the summer, the Haight-Ashbury scene had deteriorated. The incessant media coverage led the Diggers to declare the "death" of the hippie with a parade.^[49][50] According to the late poet Susan 'Stormi' Chambless, the hippies buried an effigy of a hippie in the Panhandle to demonstrate the end of his/her reign. Haight-Ashbury could not accommodate the influx of crowds (mostly naive youngsters) with no place to live. Many took to living on the street, panhandling and drug-dealing. There were problems with malnourishment, disease, and drug addiction. Crime and violence skyrocketed. By the end of 1967, many of the hippies and musicians who initiated the Summer of Love had moved on. Misgivings about the hippie culture, particularly with regard to drug abuse and lenient morality, fueled the moral panics of the late 1960s.<sup>[51]"

It's kind of ironic, if the media hadn't made such a big deal about it, the hippie movement might have just been just a blip on the screen of history.  And maybe ultimately it will just be that.

Although the orginal Star Trek series episode</sup> "The Way to Eden" shows that the hippie movement will live on and then again die in the future.


Edited by Slartibartfast - January 24 2010 at 11:18

btw: Yeah, I'm a Hippy... well a Gothic Hippy anyway.

They are definitely linked to spirituality and have been so for centuries. That does not mean there can be no spirituality without drugs or that the use of drugs necessarily leads to spirituality , but tio say there is no connection at all is, to use SnowDog's expression, bollocks.

it might explain Berlusconi..   who doesn't think he doesn't love a  round of disco biscuits to share with some 18 year old flussie hahah

Edited by micky - January 24 2010 at 12:23

BaldFriede wrote: Blacksword wrote: BaldFriede wrote: The lack of spirituality in the modern world is a severe loss. It should be mandatory for politicians to use a magic mushroom for guidance everey three months. Their decisions could definitely not get any worse, in my honest opinion.Actually drug abuse is quite common among politicians, but the drugs they use are mostly alcohol and certain pills. And they definitely don't use the drugs for spiritual purposes. After careful consideration of your proposal, I'm inclined to think the world is better off, without the likes President Ahmadinajhad and Benjamin Netanyahu, making life and death decisions, while on high grade blotter acid.. First of all, I would not expect them to make decisions WHILE being on drugs; that would be nonsense indeed. Second, most politicians are under the influence of drugs, whether you are aware of it or not. Most of these drugs are pep pills or the likes; in Western countries alcohol is a very important drug too. There have been several studies about that..

I'm happy.  

It seems like most of the people here have no conception of "hippies" beyond what they've seen in footage of Woodstock.  

Edited by himtroy - January 24 2010 at 13:08

himtroy wrote: It seems like most of the people here have no conception of "hippies" beyond what they've seen in footage of Woodstock.   Also, FACT Alcohol is worse for you than many of the drugs you people are complaining about people using.

micky wrote: yeah.. .Woodstock was what hippies and hippiedom were ALL ABOUT hahaha.  wasn't that the point of Woodstock.. it wasn't to get high... or to see the Who...

It all kind of fell to pieces at Altamont though didn't it.