Why is there a book about Hippys?

i read about folks like you in chapter f... fake hippies

 

mollythehippie your insane, yu dont learn how to be a hippie unless your a "fake"..you grow into being one. and asa matter of fact its just another label..but in my mind its more of a lifestyle choice of simplicity and all that and if people want to tag you thats their bizz. my personal opinion, is all.

 

Whoopdie Shit.

 

If you want to buy into the concept that "Hippys" lived by a certain lifestyle or area of the country or lived in harmony in communes or were broke on the streets-or rich in penthouses;then you are only trying to do what Life magazine tried to do and failed to do many years ago-To put a label or name on a group of free thinking peace loving people is impossible to do. I have known rich "hippy's" as well as dirt poor and everything in between.The majority of the people in the 60s that were opposed to the war and marched to end it were also either college students and or working class people. They did not live on the streets of the Haight Ashbury but they were by definition "hippy's" as they were not signing up for the draft or going to Viet Nam-I have known people who worked for the Government who did alot of acid and protested the war and danced to Jimi Hendrix and wore love beads-There are way to many different lifestyles that merged in the 60s to classify one group as "hippys".-If you call just the people that lived on the streets and panhandeled for food "hippy's then there were very few hippy's in this country in the 60s as most people has a place to sleep and food to eat.It really was just as it is today' survival of the fittest.-Even though people helped each other to get by it was still a personal struggle for everyone.The people I would like to read a book written by; would be the original Merry Pranksters and Ken Kesey's family of friends and loved ones. They took this whole colorful street circus on the road way before it was ever cool to do so. They took alot of chances on arrest and getting beat up traveling in a multi colored bus all around the country on very strong acid-Now that was hip!-and real gutsy!-If anyone knows any books written by the original Pranksters I'd love to read it-they started the party rollin!(ps-Tom Wolfe was not Prankster)

 

"One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" by the man Kesey himself.. It's fiction, but eh.. Ken Babbs and Kesey wrote "Last Go Round" together also.. Babbs was a prankster too. And yes Tom Wolfe DEFINETELY not a prankster.

 

Thanks for that-Ya know' even though Cuckoos Nest is fiction; there is alot of truth to the conditions and the treatment that were in place at that hospital at that time. I lived in Salem' Oregon at that time when it was being filmed there. They were at the Oregon State Hopspital for the crimanally insane or whatever the politacally correct term is for it now. The place was and still is a horror show . The building is real old and run down with leaky pipes and cold inside. The staff was hard on the "patients" and I believe Oregon just ok'ed some money to finally tear it down or remodel it. It's really a dump. Anyway; I read the book when it first came out and have seen the movie many times. Unfortunatley it dosen't say anything about the Pranksters. The other book you mentioned' I have never heard of. I have read most of Keseys stuff but not that one. I will check it out. It is kinda funny that he didn't keep a journal of those historic "trips" he took with all of those acid pioneers. A movie would be great!I'm sure he was asked to do just that many times but he choose to go into semi-seclusion on his dairy farm. Can't blame him after being chased all the way to Mexico on a stupid pot charge. A charge that today would not get you 1 day in jail. My' how times change. The acid was strong enough to rip your head off and it was legal!-Get caught with one joint of pot and your looking at a jail cell!-Unbelievable-thanks again

 

"Last Go Round: A Real Western"; Historical fiction. I personally haven't read it. (well the first few pages online but that doesn't actually constitute as "reading" it).

 

Good-I will see if it's on talking book-mp3-I love those-Great on a long trip

 

ey robspace2, mabey you should look up the website of Ken Kesey. don´t know what the exact adress is, but I came across it a while ago. they are selling videos of those adventures nowadays, if i´m right. just look it up

 

Oh my god! you mean there is a reference manual on how you become a hippie! you mean i could learn to be a better hippie than i am at this very moment?!?
well, holy shit! where do i sign up?!?(sarcasm) i have in fact read the a - z refence on apparent hippidom.. and i found it very informative on an era that was before my time and a subculture that interests me... that does not mean in any way that I used it as a guide line to becoming your "stereotypical Hippie" and i seriously doubt that skip intended it as such.. to the folks who were offended by the girl who used it that way.. i'm sending you out some lovin and chill vibes... its her biz whether or not she wants to use the material in that manner... and to the girl who enjoyed as a guild to a path that could hardly hurt her... more power to you... I'm glad it benefitted you ... but rest assured that you're already a "great hippie" or what ever label you want to use... and you dont need any reference manual to guide you... just follow your heart and your spirit and you will do fine! Much love and harmony to everyone!

 

Am I the only one in here who thinks she was sarcastic?

 

so what's your point? all these words you just typed are labels... symbols... code... written verbal representation of conscious intention...

my point is that books are cool and i get alot of reading books whether it be nietsche, hesse, buddha, krishna, shakespeare, skip, ginsberg and i find they greatly enrich my life experience and so if you don't like skip's book, don't read but don't be a mind police and tell me what i should and shouldn't read

i think you and spaceboyrob need to be asking who the insane one's are

 

-I checked on that book and it's about the Penelton roundup in Eastern Oregon. It has nothing to do with the Pranksters or the journey they took-I am not aware of any books that Kesey wrote that talk about that experience-Why; I don't know. I was thinking that one of the Pranksters had written about it-I'm sure one of them had to.even as zoned out as they were at the time lol-Maybe the Woofe book is all that was written but I kinda doubt it.

 

-Your not a "hippy"-You are a mouthy airhead kid-go away-when you start calling me and others on here nasty names then your time is up-go away-you have much to learn!

 

Hey all This Is a Book were talking about... no need to be mean to 16 year old girl.. You guys are bullshit sometimes... hahaha, i love this though your a fake...

 

Nope, youre not the only one. Im amazed by the lack of humor in here sometimes. :jester:

 

Ive never read the book....is it any good ???

 

hugh romney encripted the prankster experience in his ben and jerry's ice cream... its all there for the tasting..., also, if you are lacto-intolerant, there is an indie movie out about hugh

 

earthmomma even wrote in her post that she was being sarcastic and people still didn't get it