Hippies?

[Red Scare]

What are your thoughts and opinions on them?

http://blessedarethecheesemakers.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/hippie1.jpg

[Sarah Palin]

Get a job, fuckin hippie.

[ChrisK]

A large group of Utopian Socialists whose disconnect from reality prevents them from creating true change. They're beliefs are okay at times, stupid at other times. They are correct in believing that LSD and 'shrooms are okay for general consumption. Their use of certain eastern mystical practices has caused a large portion of American peti-bougeosie to practice yoga on dvds, follow a watered down version of meditation, talk about thought changing the world and believing that recycling and a hybrid car alone will save the environment.

However, I find that their drug policies and belief in "real" meditation to be a plus and that both would do society some good.

Furthermore, Jimi Hendrix.

But, I also blame their failure as being the cause of Postmodernism and it greatly upsets me.

Therefore, hippies are sometimes cool (Jimi Hendrix) and sometimes not.













Jimi Hendrix

[Pirate Utopian]

Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi.

Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix.
Jimi Hendrix.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i like and dislike them.
love does not bring change. its too weak. save the love for after the revolution!
drug policies are ok. i love some of the music though.

including


Jimi Hendrix


but. many of them seemed to be christian. which i dislike but it doesnt make them necessarily bad.

[GPDP]

My cousin is a neo-hippie of sorts. He's vegetarian, is a hardcore environmentalist, his dream car is a Prius, and he thinks Lenin's biggest failing was his willingness to use violence :laugh:.

Oh yeah, he's also really into drugs like weed and mushroom, and music, such as Led Zeppelin, and yes, Jimi Hendrix.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

postmodernism is a result of the failure of the hippie movement?
lol
no

[ChrisK]

postmodernism is a result of the failure of the hippie movement?
lol
no

Indirectly. I support the idea that after the failures of present, in despair, more nihlistic ideas came forth. Analysis with no alternative.


Also, Jimi Hendrix

[NecroCommie]

I ofcourse strongly state that Hendrix Jimi Jimmy Hendrixy Jimi. That is only provided that Jimi Hendriximi Hendrixi Hendrix. On the other hand Jimi Hendrix ate Hendrix Jimi when calculating the possibility of Jimmy Hendrixy Hendrix Hendrix while at the same time playing the violin. After Jimi the Hendrix came to be an important Hendrix Jimi Jimi, yet it did not realize how Hendrimi Jimi Hendrix had a chaotic effect on the Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Hendrix version of volleyball.

[ChrisK]

I ofcourse strongly state that Hendrix Jimi Jimmy Hendrixy Jimi. That is only provided that Jimi Hendriximi Hendrixi Hendrix. On the other hand Jimi Hendrix ate Hendrix Jimi when calculating the possibility of Jimmy Hendrixy Hendrix Hendrix while at the same time playing the violin. After Jimi the Hendrix came to be an important Hendrix Jimi Jimi, yet it did not realize how Hendrimi Jimi Hendrix had a chaotic effect on the Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Hendrix version of volleyball.

You forgot to mention Jimi Hendrix.

[Killfacer]

They're a nice lot.

[Bilan]

They use the word "man" too often.

[Revy]

hippies don't exist now, unless you count "ex-hippies" that are old.

[Il Medico]

Jimi Hendrix.

[Jorge Miguel]

Half (being generous here) of this forum

[Raúl Duke]

If only half of this forum was like Jimi Hendrix....

[IAmLeviathan]

the best song ever on the subject:

youtube.com/watch?v=2SNHtKfDxlg

[Pawn Power]

they are so old now. well over fifty and into there late sixties.

[Pirate Utopian]

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Jimi Hendrix.

[Nwoye]

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[gorillafuck]

I hate it so much when people say "groovy".

[Misanthrope]

I have long hair, smoke weed, play guitar and I'm a communist. Am I a hippy?

[Manifesto]

"Damn Dirty Hippies!" - Eric Cartman

[ChrisK]

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Jimi!

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Hendrix!

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JIMI HENDRIX!!!!!!

[Raúl Duke]

I have long hair, smoke weed, play guitar and I'm a communist. Am I a hippy?

plus you have cannabism as your tendency...


JIMI HENDRIX!!!!!!

Fuck yes!!!!!!!

:cool:

[Nwoye]

I have long hair, smoke weed, play guitar and I'm a communist. Am I a hippy?
hmmm... 1) are you a vegetarian?

do you play ultimate frisbee?

do you like Bob Marley and if so is he the only reggae artist you listen to?

if you answered yes to all these questions you're a damn dirty hippy

[Angry Young Man]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cb/JimiHendrix2.jpg

My attitudes towards hippies depends upon whether they're sanctimonious vegan skinny self-deluding self-righteous tossers or Jimi Hendrix

[Pirate Utopian]

I hate it so much when people say "groovy".
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[SoupIsGoodFood]

Kill all hippies!

[GPDP]

Didn't know there were so many Hendrix fans here.

[Misanthrope]

hmmm... 1) are you a vegetarian?

do you play ultimate frisbee?

do you like Bob Marley and if so is he the only reggae artist you listen to?

if you answered yes to all these questions you're a damn dirty hippy

I am a vegetarian.

fuck frisbees

I like Bob Marley but also like The Maytals, Steel Pulse, Marlon Asher, Tosh,

[Il Medico]

Didn't know there were so many Hendrix fans here.
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Show/5308/jimi_wood.gif

Never ceases to amaze.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs

[Andrei Kuznetsov]

A friend of mine in the Black Metal scene has this t-shirt:

I STOMP ON HIPPIES.

That sentiment's alright by me.

[ChrisK]

Didn't know there were so many Hendrix fans here.

Only weaklings and fascists don't like JIMI HENDRIX!!!!








































Jimi Hendrix

[Jimmie Higgins]

During all the Woodstock 40th anniversary stuff in the US, I heard an anecdote on the radio about how Abbie Hoffman came on stage at one point (invited to speak I presume) and tried to talk about some political issue and he got chanted down by hippies yelling:
"You're Harshing our Mellow".

Hippies were not really political - they were probably more like lifestylists are today - they think they are political but it is all about dropping-out rather than challenging they system. So you could think in 1967-1972 that you could combine hippie lifestyle stuff with political things, but when the movements began to die, that myth evaporated and so hippies kind of when into dispair and turned more explicitly to new-age ideas or whatnot. The guy who wrote "Dig-it" for example (hilariously anachronistic book btw) went from Yippie to self-help guru in the 70s to investment banker in the 80s.

Will someone please make me a shirt that says "You're mellowing my harsh".

EDIT: Oops, the book "Dig-it" is actually the book "Do it!" by Jerry Rubin. Sorry for the mistake, I guess I did too much Acid when I was a punk-rock kid.

[SoupIsGoodFood]

I did see a cool shirt on a hippie. It said "Hate your father? I don't have a job".

[Nwoye]

I am a vegetarian.
eek


fuck frisbees

I like Bob Marley but also like The Maytals, Steel Pulse, Marlon Asher, Tosh,
you're safe.

[Angry Young Man]

The guy who wrote "Dig-it" for example (hilariously anachronistic book btw) went from Yippie to self-help guru in the 70s to investment banker in the 80s.
Talk about conditions determining consciousness! What are the odds that today, he's a new Labour czar?

[The Ungovernable Farce]

Hunter S. Thompson, Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker! and a few others were alright, but in general they're pretty shit. Far too nice and wholesome for their own good.

[bcbm]

A friend of mine in the Black Metal scene has this t-shirt:

I STOMP ON HIPPIES.

That sentiment's alright by me.


Its hard to think of anything more pathetic than one stupid subculture fighting another, except maybe picking one of the least threatening subcultures to fight.

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I ofcourse strongly state that Hendrix Jimi Jimmy Hendrixy Jimi. That is only provided that Jimi Hendriximi Hendrixi Hendrix. On the other hand Jimi Hendrix ate Hendrix Jimi when calculating the possibility of Jimmy Hendrixy Hendrix Hendrix while at the same time playing the violin. After Jimi the Hendrix came to be an important Hendrix Jimi Jimi, yet it did not realize how Hendrimi Jimi Hendrix had a chaotic effect on the Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Jimi Hendrix version of volleyball.

:wub: er...wanna get hitched?


Anyway, on the topic....
I think the left (though revleft more than real-life-left) has a tendency to take labels and make sweeping (over)generalizations about the nature of the people upon whom the label is imposed (or who willingly identify themselves with the label). "Hippie" is a loose concept. Of course, there is the stereotype that we're all familiar with; petit bourgeois teenagers who don't shower and get high all day and have no connection to the working class and are pacifists and subscribe to some silly new age religion and think the solution to the world's problems is to light candles and listen to music and quit buying from corporations and use organic toothpaste and hold hands and make out. And naturally, there are many hippies to whom this description applies to a tee. However, there are also many "hippies" whose political beliefs are completely separate from their "hippieness" - to whom "hippie" is merely a culture or a clothing style or a music preference instead of any sort of dogma or political ideology. Or, to the extent that it may be any of these things, it is only really in a superficial sense. So I don't really see how it is productive for the revolutionary left to dismiss entire segments of the youth population due to a loose label such as "hippie" or "punk" or "goth" or "hipster" or what have you.

[Angry Young Man]

http://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/agb/images/Danny.jpg

That was an unfortunate political decision, reflecting these times.

[The Ungovernable Farce]

Just remembered that although I violently dislike hippies, I'm going to Climate Camp this week. OH SHI-

[NecroCommie]

On a more serious note, I like hippies well enough. They are nice people and far better than any conservatists. Sure they are not perfect communists, but then who is? From personal experience I can say that most of them are working class.

[bellyscratch]

I've heard anarchists are hippies.... get a fucking job you scum!

[Rusty Shackleford]

http://aftergrogblog.blogs.com/agb/images/Danny.jpg

That was an unfortunate political decision, reflecting these times.

+1! that guy was an awesome character.

Hippies just need a bit of radicalization... in the right direction.

[Comrade Akai]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!

Actually, I don't have much of an opinion on hippies. They seem like nice people. I don't really understand all the hate towards them.

[Il Medico]

So, I figure I should actually give my opinion instead of just saying Jimi Hendrix. And we must remember that there were other cool hippies besides Jimi Hendrix, like Janis Joplin, the guys from Jefferson airplane, and any hippy that will give me free weed. They are either non politcial or just under the delusion that they can change the world through peaceful means alone. They aren't exactly reactionary, but they aren't revolutonary either.















Jimi Hendrix.

[ChrisK]

So, I figure I should actually give my opinion instead of just saying Jimi Hendrix. And we must remember that there were other cool hippies besides Jimi Hendrix, like Janis Joplin, the guys from Jefferson airplane, and any hippy that will give me free weed. They are either non politcial or just under the delusion that they can change the world through peaceful means alone. They aren't exactly reactionary, but they aren't revolutonary either.















Jimi Hendrix.

You forgot John Lennon and Pink Floyd
















Jimi Hendrix....

[Panda Tse Tung]

Where's cartman when you need him!?

[Искра]

I don't like hippies - they smell. Especially 21st century hippie versions - crustys. They smell to. I don't like that, you can't even punch them, because if you do you'll get disease.
I'm for "final solution". I like when everything is clean.

[NecroCommie]

I don't like hippies - they smell. Especially 21st century hippie versions - crustys. They smell to. I don't like that, you can't even punch them, because if you do you'll get disease.
I'm for "final solution". I like when everything is clean.
Then your problem is not actually with hippies, but with dirty people. Even some primmies I know have more "clean" lifestyles than I do. Not to talk of the modern hippies.

[Pirate Utopian]

Might I add, Jimi Hendrix.









Jimi Hendrix.

[ChrisK]

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74918_theyre-not-people-theyre-hippies_fun

Awesome.

Not as awesome as Jimi Hendrix. But awesome.






Jimi Hendrix!!!!!!!!