Fake Modern Hippies

My wife's favorite album.

 

I was born in 88. But I collect vinyls and LOVE 60's psychedelic rock!

I think the true hippie movement adapted into the rave schene; There, I met people who've been partying since the 60's. But kids mostly listen to techno,pop and, hip hop. They wouldn't know good music, if it smacked them in the face!

 

No, lol...

PaulWenz was attempting to quote Stormy without quotation marks or using the quote feature from the post. I saw him do that in other threads.

 

Soooo,
I'm guessing that BeatleGirl graduated high school and got away from all the "fake hippies" and is now dealing with "fake ravers" in college by now...

 

Aer',

"PaulWenz was attempting to quote Stormy without quotation marks"

Are you some kind of Wordworth or just a PC Nazi?


Listen to the music , that's what counts.

 

"It's a Beautiful Day."

went out of print for a long time then the album became available.

Some good stuff on Youtube.

 

lol all self proclaimed 'hippies' are fake.
this isn't the fucking sixties. there is no such thing as a real hippie anymore

 

May I Subtly Suggest You Go And Have "Sexual Intercourse" With

Yourself...



Cheers Glen.

 

i do that all the time

 

The real hippies were draft dodgers
hiding from authorities after burning their cards

they hid on farms where no one would look

they couldn't afford haircuts or have access to city amenities
so had long hair and beards, which aided in escaping identification

many jumped ship to Canada
I lived with a few

Soon America sympathized with the hippies and everyone grew long hair
draft dodgers on the rub could at least blend in

the look became a fad,
a fashion of long hair and drugs

by then the original hippies had gone
bought fake ID reintegrated to the system

many abandoned drugs too

what was left over was a bunch of stoners trying imitate/copy something
they didn't have a template for,

 

...and Woodstock was a GOP convention. Sheesh!

 

I think that people do have the right to wear what ever they want to wear. It is not our job to tell people are they "hippie enough" to wear so called hippie clothes. That is stupid. I understand that it can be a little frustrating, but remember, it is not the clothes which make u hippie, actually clothes have nothing to do with it at all Peace.

 

Last weekend another 3 day/2 night transformational gathering - about 200 people tripping, rolling, meditating, loving, dancing, learning together - many of us feeling very much like hippies.

I love Sunday mornings at these, people dancing as the sun comes up, always groups of people huddled together on blankets, still tripping, artists still painting, people walking around, on a cloud. It's exactly like the words by the photo at the bottom of this post. On Sunday the music goes until noon or later. It's all so soft and sweet and so psychedelic.

I Awake started Saturday evening off: https://soundcloud.com/iawake (click the first one)

 

First of all I don't have problems with people who wear hippy clothes, but don't actually profess to be a hippy. Once a person professes to be a hippy, I have an expectation for the person to be somewhat familiar with Albert Hofmann, Owsley Stanley and Timothy Leary. The Summer of Love definitely wouldn't of happened without Albert Hofmann or Owsley Stanley. The reason I focus on these 3 is because I am troubled by society's strong anti-academic influence on hippies. I am making some big generalities here I know. But as I see it, hippies are capable of higher levels of academics then straight society. Straight society seems to learn just enough to make the money they want and without anything that a hippy could identify as passion. Don't get me wrong I love the music, the art and poetry, but without the academics we are and will be always powerless.

 

I'm young and dress like a hippie -- but I hate modernity with a desperate passion. I swear!


My favourite real hippie is this calculus teacher I have at my college. He lives across the street from me. He came to canada in the 60s dodging the draft and when they found out he was here his position in our university's math dept. was important enough that they were able to hang on to him. He's awesome, he's the only teacher who's actully getting students to see th true beauty and philosophy behind the calc -- also a very good singer. Really cool old hippies are the best, especially when they don't just judge the young hipsters for being inauthentic, but, rather, try to teach them how to be smart, real and truly authentic hippies, themselves.

 

Teach you to be authentic seems a bit of a contradiction.

 

no such thing as an authentic hippie. unless of course you're an old motherfucker.

*edit - yes, i realize, i'll probably be BANNED for criticizing 'hippies' but really kids, unless you are at least 50, you have never been and will never be a 'hippie'. you are a wanna be.

you should be yourself. copying the hippies of the sixties makes you look like you're unauthentic and unoriginal. my advice is to have a thought of your own. smoking pot and wearing tie die is cool and all that but you're not a hippie. you just aren't. you will never be. a Doors t-shirt from Hot Topic doesn't make you a hippie. neither does a totally awesome hemp necklace with a mushroom on it. love and peace is a cop-out