i dont quite understand people who hate hippies. i especially dont understand why anarchists think that they can achieve peace by causing havok. you can have peace and unity without living and beaing peace and unity. breaking stuff and hating everyone who isnt an anarchist will not do good for your cause. it will only bring hate upon yourself. you get what you put out. it is the truth, not just some hippie bullshit. the laws of physics confirm this.
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i totally agree. how can people hate hippies....all they want is some peace and love. and isnt that what this world needs. i wish we could just put aside our differences and try and live in harmony with one another. we only have one life, why not stop with all the craziness and make it a good one.
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A true anarchist is not into violence or destruction. They just want to be free to make their own decisions.
P.S. Anybody who hates hippies is not a true anarchist.
Love,
A hippie-anarchist
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I agree with you. I have no idea why people hate hippies. i don't know that we can every achieve peace in an everchanging world, but we can move the world in the right direction at the very least!!
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It's (yet another) an ideological victory of the political right, which has succeeded in painting hippies as hair-brained, pothead idealists with greying ponytails and tie-dyed Deadhead shirts. That image has been transmitted and reified so much that much of comfortable, don't-rock-the-boat America actually believes it.
One sees this with green building, too. In every presentation I've seen, the speaker makes sure to distance her/himself from the 1970s notion of a "green" building as looking like a geodesic dome or a woodsy hobbit-house. And of course that distance is deemed desirable, because only dirty hippies live in hobbithouses, and hippies are hairbrained potheads yadda yadda...
Don't get me started on how the right has made feminism a dirty word too...
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wow happy hippie here!
trees need hugs 2!!!
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I have a love/hate relationship with "hippies" and "new age" types. I tend to get lumped in with hippies due to my long hair, bohemian tendencies, and some of my political beliefs, and while I don't necessarily reject the label, there are definitely some aspects of hippy culture I'm less than pleased with. For one thing, love and peace are great, but not if they're just buzzwords with no concrete meaning. I think a lot of hippies are a bit too "far out" with their idealism, and are very ungrounded in their ideas. Also, a lot of hippies think they're open-minded, but if I try to argue that maybe socialism isn't any better than capitalism, or that some people in poor neighborhoods might actually need guns for self-defense, or that world peace isn't going to be achieved by sitting in a circle and chanting "Om," they look at me like I have two heads(except if I did have two heads, they'd probably just think they were having a flashback). And they preach love and tolerance for everyone, but if they see someone driving an SUV with a "Support Our Troops" ribbon, they go ballistic. Also, in the New Age community, there's a lot of narcissism masquerading as transcendence.
I hate to be overly negative here, because there's a lot in the hippy culture that I do like. I just think it would be a lot better if they were more grounded and were a bit more consistent with their ideals.
