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That the Hippie movement is mostly dead.

Tnu1138Tnu1138
edited 2011-08-12 20:21:23 in General
I would have wanted to see it survive.

Comments

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    Do yourself a favor and read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Then you'll realize why the hippie movement was a horrible, horrible mistake, not to mention why it could've never survived to begin with.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    I'll put it on my list Zabu thanks for the suggestion I just really hate Nixon.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    edited 2011-08-12 23:21:20
    Rest assured, he hates you too.

    Anyway, Nixon was a bastard, yes, but it's not like the hippies ultimately did much to dismantle him or his institutions. He ended up winning office in spite of them, and the Vietnam War lasted well until '75. Apparently, the hippies actually did play a part in ending the Vietnam draft. So nevermind.

    I'd say they contributed far more to culture than they ever did to politics, what with the music and New Hollywood and Lord of the Rings and all.
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    Marijuana
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    which should be legal!
  • DarkDecapodianDarkDecapodian
    Clean your room little Billy
    And the continued existence of New Age stores.
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    New Age holds promise I htink but I think i'm more Unitarian Universalist.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    How many labels do you have?
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    what odyou mean?
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    You call yourself activist, universalist, libertarian, this and that, I mean how many labels did you identify yourself with?
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    your missing (classical) liberal, anarchist, Jeffersonian, agnostic, agorist, I know there ar emore that i'm leaving out jsut can't think of htem.
  • ninjaclownninjaclown
    I repeat, how many labels did you identify yourself with? Why are you so obsessed with them?
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    for the sake of proper Taxonomy it makes it easier to explain who I am in simple terms as well as helps to establish an identity. Besides I love words.
  • RocketDudeRocketDude
    Poot dispenser here
    25 years ago,
    They spoke out
    And they broke out
    Of recession
    And oppression
    And together they toked.
    And they folked out
    With guitars around a bonfire,
    Singing and clappin',
    Man, what the hell happened?
    Some were spellbound,
    Some were hellbound,
    Some, they fell down,
    Some got back up
    And fought back against the Meltdown,
    And their kids were Hippie Chicks,
    All hypocrites,
    Because fashion is smashin'
    The true meaning of it!
  • Tnu1138Tnu1138
    i'm considering starting a commune actually. I don't mind communism on a microscale but don't think it works on a macroscale.
  • MagusMagus
    I'LL STAY MAI HAUNDS...WITH YAU BLAHT
    ^^Sauce?
  • BeeBee
    Opposing the Vietnam draft was about the only thing the hippies did that I can appreciate, and they were hardly the only ones.  So...
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET
    Walking On The Sun by Smash Mouth.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Tnu: If I recall, there is one town that uses communism and it functions nigh on perfectly (even has a great balance with nature due to how the buildings are constructed)

    So yeah, I'd have to agree. Communism works on a micro scale very well. Democracy is pretty much the only way to handle larger amounts of people though =/
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    Ideally, communism was always supposed to be democratic.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Yeah. You'd think that people would notice that an economical system that is all about the people would use a political system that is also all about the people.

    Alas...
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    Sadly, the USSR started out something like that with the Soviets. Too bad Lenin decided he wanted all the power for himself.
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