Are hippies the same?

i wanna know if you think there's a diffrence between the old hippie's and the new. Ok lets hear it.

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yeah, time warp man.

 

There are bound to be differences and similarities, just like any people living in different eras. The same could be said for any two people living in the same era as well.

 

Hmm, I was reading a book the other day and it sorta explaind the whole "hippie" expirience pretty well ... it went somthing like this ...

"There is no generation gap, Some people are just born of the spirit."

You can look back at the 60's and see that not everyone was a groovey flower child, just like not everyone is today. But those who are paying attention and do have flowers in their hair, well they just shine so bright!

Love and Light to you all.

 

Yes. These are different generations. But both are unique

 

Both think world peace is possible, which is incrediblly stupid IMO but hey we all need pipe dreams

 

ur kidding rite? no one is the same.

 

And why is it incredibly stupid?

 

No they are not the same.

New hippies (not all of them but alot) call themselves hippies instead of being like the old hippies who were called hippies.

A true hippie would not care about if you write hippy or hippie, about if they were hippies after or before smoking pot, about that hippie look and all those kind of things (look at all the other threads). A true hippie doesn't care how you call him.

The old hippies just do what is right, no matter what society think about them. That's why I think young hippies are very hard to find nowadays.

 

It can never be achieved. Ever.

 

At least we can try to make the world a better place to live in and not say that perfection is incredibly stupid, wich is incredibly pessimist.

 

The new hippies are more concerned with the definition of "hippie" than the old hippies were or are.

 

The older hippys went thru alot of hardships just to BE. They saw the draft during Viet Nam, watched the birth of rock & roll, paved the way for acceptance of long hair and alternative lifestyles. They were a warrior of a different sort. Pioneers.

The modern day hippys are following in footsteps already made. So far.
I dont think that it will remain that way too much longer tho, because the world is getting even more screwed up than it was back then, and when the shit REALLY hits the fan, the REAL hippys will be the present day alternative warriors. I think the true hippy spirit is created thru adversity. Not personal adversity, but cultural adversity.

Wonder if someone is a real hippy or not? By their works you shall know them...

 

sure there's a difference! The people I think of as "hippies" aren't the long haired pot heads some people might think of. I think hippies are people who are *real* and don't care what society says they should do. They don't wear stylish clothes (no matter how "hip") just because it's cool to do so. They aren't big on labels and ordering people and their world into nice neat categories. They are the ones who listen to their hearts and follow their instincts. Hippies come in all ages, all shapes, sizes, colors, and income brackets, and they are each of them uniquely individual and not like anyone else.


I used to think my parents were hippies, but my perspective has changed as I grew up. They had the long hair, they smoked the weed, they were against the war in VietNam. They had the right sort of friends, listened to the right music. They walked the walk and talked the talk. And they thought they were so "cool" ... but they were young and stupid idealists who liked talking about the theories but had no idea how to make their ideas work in the real world. Just like the poseurs I see trying so hard to be like my parents and their friends were thirty and forty years ago. I used to think that was so cool, but now I know that what's really cool are people who don't care how cool you think they are.

 

These days it's become a fashion. As has every other belief possible. Somehow they've made it all fashion. These people today are brain washed. I walk through school everyday and think "Why?" "Why are they giving in to the ways of society?"

In the past "hippies" were much more real. They had such strong beliefs and took action. It's amazing how free they felt. I would give anything to have lived in those days. I find it to be just a label now. I don't call myself a hippie, though I thoroughly enjoy the ways of the "hippies." Peace, Love, Freedom, and basically Utopia.

Sadly, times change, and they have changed for the worse. You can no longer pray in your own school, you're forced to say the pledge to a country and president who have completely let you down, protests are scarce because people are scared to speak up in fear of "looking like an idiot", and there is so much more. It's unbelievable! I detest this day and age....but I'm only 16 and I am living for today. Day by day. Being the free individual I am and not giving a fuck what others say. I'm not going to let society bring me down. Hopefully all the other young people with strong beliefs will do the same....


and understand that no we're not the same as people were back in the 1960's. Those years are over, but the beliefs still live in in the old and the new. We may not be the same as they were back then, but by God we can change the world!

 

they're not the same definetely.I kept only the hippie ideologie and clothes, but I wash often and don't smoke

 

Current hippies, talk like the old hippies but they dont act like them, they still wear the tie dyed shirts and talk about peace, but most of them dont do anything to support their talk, they just sit around with their friends talking about how the world should be instead of actually doing something to make these changes. New hippies need to unite with eachother and make a difference like the old hippies did in their time.

 

What difference do you think the "old hippies" made? They were all just stoned and sitting around talking about things, too. Sure, they had Woodstock, so what? My Dad was there, I'm sure he was naked and dancing in the mud (instead of being home with his wife and brand new baby like he should have been...). Does that make him a revolutionary? shit Fashion comes and goes, and as far as I can tell, most "hippies" now or then are/were just following the crowd. The Earth still needs to be saved. The government is still run by the few who hold all the money. The young have to grow up sometime, and most of them give up on their ideals in order to live in this world instead of the one they have created in their minds. There are those who never give up on their beliefs, but in any generation they are the exception rather than the rule.

 

The thing that gave the hip generation their power back in the day was the sheer numbers of them, with pretty much the same core beliefs. Sort of a collective conciousness... We were a shock to sleeping mainstream society. It didnt matter what part we played in the greater scheme of things, just as long as we were a part.
The thing that is lacking now days is that very cohesiveness which gives "power in numbers". And people are sleeping even more soundly now than they were then, it is called being desensitised to your environment. Which means that things will have to get REALLY BAD before enough like minded folks will start to converge on a scale great enough to be heard. So, WAKE UP!