why is a hippie forums most talked about subject clothing? why are no hippies talking about things that matter, like the hippies from the 60s who actually made a difference and changed how people looked at the world? sorry, when i first came to the hipforums i thought the hippie forum would be... different. less materialistic. and a little more... i don't know, it will come to me eventually. (just the hippie section not all of hipforums)
the most talked about thing isn't clothing. there are a lot of political discussions, you just have to look for it i'm not sure where you're looking but there are plenty different dicussion topics throughout the forum.
this part of the forum isn't all that great. lots of other good parts though and just because you don't post in the hippie forum doesn't mean you're not a hippie!
Yep. The reason there are so many topics for people to post is because there are so many people out there with so many interests. I post here a little bit but people do not consider me a "hippie." We still have our freedom of speech for now so i guess we must express it in our own ways.
Yeah, it took me a while to find the kind of stuff I was interested in. Sometimes a very interesting conversation can be going on in the most unlikely place
Alas, books and music are in no way better than clothing in this context, they still cost something, sometimes a lot of something, and there is a lot of annoying marketing around them as well. So I wonder how we could hide from it, to be serious.
Seriously, there's no need to hide. Can't anyway. Unless you're gonna survive in the woods. Learn to ignore it or work to put it to an end. Living off second hand goods is fine, costs a lot less, helps the local economy and fights the marketing bs. Trade labor for services. (or vice-versa) Nobody HAS to buy into consumptive behavior...they choose. Zen
Well, this is a good idea, but the problem is that the majority doesn’t want to put it to an end; quite the contrary, they’re enjoying it, and frankly, I see no way to make them change their minds. It isn’t possible even to ignore it, if, for example, you spend some time in search of new good artists – advertising falls upon you like an avalanche. Of course, it is not a big problem – I can live with it, – but surely it would be much better to live without any kind of commercial garbage. At least I would like to have a possibility to buy a good music magazine at the nearest Borders – a magazine that doesn’t devote 70% of its space to advertising, and other 30% to purely promotional articles and interviews.
