The hippie movement is dead, there are no more hippies so stop calling me one. Sure I might have long hair, take mind expanding plants and chemicals, care for the environment, and meditate but that doesn’t make me a hippie. I also hunt, fish, drink beer and love hockey. Why not call me a red neck? Or perhaps you should focus on my nerdy qualities such as computers, reading, sci-fi, chess and mycology.
Nope, I am not a hippie, nerd or a redneck. I am just a being trapped in a human suit trying to learn its way back home just like you. —We Are Called Psychonauts Now But There Is Still Free Love 😉
This article appears in Apr 11-17, 2013.
Aw….we all get labels. Unfortunately that’s the society we live it. If you’re a little bit “different” and draw attention to yourself, you’re gonna get some flack. I come from the Land of Rednecks. Does that make me one? Hell no! My son is gay (and very handsome I might add), dresses metro and draws a lot of attention to himself. Not always the best attention but he doesn’t care…he’s being himself and he’s happy! Jeez…why can’t everyone just ignore the Ignorants (and yeah I meant it as a noun, not ignorance)….and be “Happy Happy Happy” 🙂
You definitely sound like a hippie.
“I come from the Land of Rednecks.”
Is that anywhere near the Land of Chocolate, perchance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMPT09lJjcE
OP – you almost had me up until your last line. That’s some dirty, hippie sounding shit right there.
my favourite hippie http://mail.colonial.net/~jyuhas/cchsmeteo…
Identity crisis!
I imagine your life is quite like the United States of Tara.
HA HA Ivan! I was so relieved to see it wasn’t that creepy guy from the original Willie Wonka movie….Gene Wilder, yeah that’s it….whew!
An irritant of mine as well. Right up there with “tree huggars”.
OB, that’s exactly what hippies do…
…grow long hair, take mind expanding plants and chemicals, care for the environment, meditate, hunt, fish, drink beer, watch hockey, work with computers, read sci-fi, play chess and study mycology…
…they too are dressed in human suits trying to learn their way back home just like you…
…you weren’t born in the 60’s, but you’re still a fucking hippie!
Embrace it! Stand proud! And you had better take some mind-expanding plants and chemicals ’cause they ain’t working well enough for you…
Tell us again about harmful stereotypes, probably-white-guy.
See what i did there?
And since when are hippies dead? As far as I know, many are still alive and well.
“…you weren’t born in the 60’s, but you’re still a fucking hippie!” – No, actually. The Captain’s pretty sure you have to be dodging the Draft or Protesting the War in order to be a Hippie. Which means you kinda DO have to be born in the ’60s/’70s
People today, who are not from that era, who appear to be Hippies are just that… people appearing to be Hippies. What they actually are, is something else. And it’s doubtful you could even group them all into the same category, let alone calling them all Hippies.
…..Of course, The Captain groups them all into the Granola/Hipster categorie
PG, how about this one:
http://www.bobdenver.com/wp-content/upload…
haha, those look like pre-gilligan days
The so called hippie movement gained momentum in the mid to late sixties. Therefore you would have had to have been born in the late 40’s and early 50’s to have jumped on the bus. If you were born in the sixties then chances are you are a hippie baby, vice hippie.
If your going to poke fun at the culture, at least get the facts rite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WF_OlLahPU
Maynard G. Krebs, the quintessential sitcom beatnik – not even close to a hippie.
Now here’s a trio of real hippies:
http://i326.photobucket.com/albums/k413/ci…
All others are pale imitations.
Maynard was more of a “beatnik” or proto-hippie. In the main, beatniks were offensive to only one of the senses, as anyone who has had to endure free-style bongo drumming or the scribblings of Kerouac and Ginsburg can attest. A proper 60’s “hippie” can be distinguished from it’s evolutionary forbears by being offensive to all 5 of the senses. As the Captain has pointed out today’s hipster/granola has all of the insufferable pretentiousness of the “beatnik”,and all of the laziness and filth of the “hippie” but their political awareness is not motivated by the need to keep their shit-caked ass out of a misbegotten asian land war.
Actually, hippies of the 60s are laughing at your dirty asses. My 60s hippy father (a proud 60s hippy) never misses the chance to yell out “DIRTY HIPPIES” and shakes his head when we see dirty hippies ’round town.
It’s an insult to them to call people like you hippies, to be honest.
That’s why I like to put the ‘dirty’ in front of the ‘hippy’ part. Because, let’s face it: y’all’re too good for soap.
Shaggy: Like, no Kitty Dude. Cleanliness is, like, a bourgeois construct and the whole Hygeine-Industrial Complex is ,like, bathed in the blood of developing nations. Like, be yourself, dude, and your mind will follow!
Scooby: Roo reek, Raggy!
soo then git a harcutt an git a reel job than.disgussin.
“Scooby: Roo reek, Raggy!”
^^ just made my fucking day.
And O’s. He’s sitting here laffin too.
Ha ha! – Well crucify the insincere , tonight!
hippie no, but the first part of your new name, oh yes. you are a psycho, but not in a good sense. you sound like a fucking nutbar from ur anus.
So …. Hugo is a psychonaut? Is that what this is all about?
A transcendental psychonaut to be exact, but this ain’t my bitch 😉
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr
It’s the 21st century. Hippies are now refered to as Occupiers.
Hey don’t knock the hippies. I know I prefer making love as opposed to war. I’m not sure about all the “tune in, turn on, drop out” stuff however.
Hippies rode the wave of social change in the sixties. They were face of it. Their precursors, the beatniks were around in the fifties but weren’t a major part of the social consciousness or fifties ideal. The fifties ideal came to an abrupt end on November 22,1963. The loss of a popular, liberal (for the U.S.A) president and the grinding depression of an ongoing Vietnam war galvanized the counterculture and a small but very loud group proudly rejected everything middle-class and upper middle-class white America was about. Those were the homes where most of these kids came from. The sexual revolution and equality for blacks were two major driving forces in the counterculture as well.
I would say 1968 was boiling point of the counterculture movement with the assassinations of MLK and RFK plus the showdown at the Democratic Convention in Chicago. I was eleven at the time and I remember thinking “wow is this it?” The “man’s gonna fall?” I was as naive as hippies of course but it was an incredibly exciting time. And scary (though not as scary as the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was five and I remember that vividly).
No you’re not a hippie OP, you’re probably too boring.
“I am just a being trapped in a human suit trying to learn its way back home just like you”
Sounds like something a hippie would say. 😛
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign…..do this, don’t do that….
“Never trust a hippie”
-Johnny Rotten
Doesn’t have anything to directly do with this thread, but I just love that quote.
@Daniel: “We’re all pretty–pretty vacant” -johnny rotten and his compadres
GET PISSED – DEEEE-STROYYYYYYYE!
“blind acceptance is a sign, of fucking fools who stand in line”
Johnny Rotten
Goes for any trend. You should hear him trash what happened with the punk movement if you already haven’t.
Right-on Daniel–gotta love the Pistols!
The filth and the fury is an excellent documentary that was put together by them about them. Really tells the story well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPGLNYAgL-8
Hey Daniel–thanks, will ck out F&F when i get off work this evening!
@Ivan–i have said it before and will say it again: I LOVE you man ;D just reposted that wickedly awesome link to fb!! Happy friday;)
Back atcha SurferGrrl. >: )
There’s an interesting doc from the early 80’s called D.O.A. that’s got a lot of good footage from the early punk scene, including the Pistols’ U.S. tour. Also, The Great Rock & Roll Swindle is entertaining, but gets better with a couple of tins of lager in your gulliver.