Are Hippies Just a Thing of the Past?

anymore, the hippies are about as hippie as the kids that wear goth clothes are german warriors.

technically hippies are post beatnick counterculturalists. that shit died out in the 70s.

 

Now theres a group you never hear about much any more.

I always thought of them as earlier and mixed in years of the Hippy.

Loved the Beatnik man. I think they were the coolest.

Maynard G. Crebs.

Hippies are different today, thats all. Like anything they evolved into those today who call themselves hippy.

They aint us. They are not supposed to be us. They live in a different day and their day needs different people then we were. It needs modern people who have older values, or rather , values period.

If a youngster today likes the old hippy and has similar values and similar ideal then they are as much hippy as any of us were. They are just modern hippies. And that is probably a good thing to be.

My great uncle always told me, 'dont try being your father, just try carrying his ideals"

As long as a young person carries the hippy ideals he or she is a hippy.

 

Where I live in NJ there are a few "hippie type" people but not many. Go up to
Vermont and you'll find many more. Hippies tend to congregate together in some areas more than others.

I would be more of a hippie if I lived around them for sure. Anyway, the hippie movement changes but its always about promoting peace instead of violence. The movement will never die.

Its not like it was in the 60s but in many ways its better. Look at what happened in Haight-Ashbury. You still have a large number of people promoting the positive ideals its just the big societal clashes that have disappeared.

 

no the world changes so whould the minds of a hippie

to get into it

 

I love you all.......Thank you for showing us a better way to live so that we can teach our children how NOT to get caught up in this world !!!

 

Around here its just a bunch of emos and preps and hicks, but in other places hippies are still chilling.

 

If the question is:

"Are hippies a thing of the past?"

I'd say, I wish it weren't true but there are still alot of spoiled kids with nothing better to do than mindlessly bark back what is barked at them by there own popular culture.

Sometimes it's good: Like the protests to end the Vietnam war

Sometimes it's bad: People wearing ridicules clothes and mindlessly shouting horrid statements claiming the U.S government planting bombs in the world trade center based on the fact that it could possibly blossom into there own safe Vietnam horror stories they so fondly remembered there hero's valiantly protesting against.

Blinded by an old idea into thinking the outrageous.

Kinda like a religion huh?

 

You do not have to have live though the 60s and/or 70s to be a hippy. I have read about emo's. I think we have a lot in common. Emos are lost souls looking for there way. When they find it, I think most of them will discover that they are hippies. <(^o^)>

 

We are still around.. just look at this website.. full of hippies..

 

hippies is a word

how do you say hippie in a different language


hahaha people are like "i am that word"

then i am like right your that word


but then again any way you speak is just a word

people are all like ""word word word word word and then i word word word word word and your mother is a word word word"


jk

 

Definately not! I'm only sixteen, just born in the wrong era thats all.

 

Course not!!!
I know lots of people who consider themselves hippies (some of them around my age, some others who actually lived those wonder years). No, definitely they will never go. Just look at this boards!!!

LONG LIFE HIPPIES!:cheers2:

 

Everything changes ,grows, evolves as r we. Their always be some ass calling somebody a .....ing hippie....I hope anyway!!!! Peace, joy, freedom n love r forever in motion and sought after..ehh Good hunting for all to come from all whom passed thru before and forever
peace grayhawk

 

Well, we're certainly not as blazingly obvious as we used to be! But we've had our impact, and I think our "paradigm" will continue to be a societal goal for many people. I do know personally, that when I return to my old "stomping" (or grooving" grounds, I see my old friends, and though we admit that we "lost the Revolution" we always compliment eah other on keeping the faith in our individual ways. But the hippie ideal was never about "making it" in the world, so that naturally makes many of us less than successful in the straights' eyes. Most of us have had to deal with getting through life while holding on to our core values of non-commercialism, political activism, artistic pursuits, etc. So while this one has managed to avoid (with the expected economic impact) working much at all in the business world, and this one has discovered a way to turn his creative prowess into a (very) small endeavor that affords a minimal income, and another has remained a proud worker in a world that disregards workers, we all have continued to struggle against the commodification of our lives, and have remained concerned about justice, peace, and a wide range of political subjects. And you do see our example revisited in young people, as they also strive to face an increasingly controlled social system. Truth is, the economics in the 60s made it possible for a lot of our "fluidity" of movement: a simple job could provide enough money to quit and hit the road, or to experiment with various sorts of community building. Another job could always be found when necessary. The financial picture today locks people into servitude, and it's not coincidental. So it is difficult to recapture the utter magic of those times. But bohemianisms of all types have sporadically arisen, and I imagine there will be another such period eventually. International capitalism and growing scarcities have perhaps made such a resurgence both more arduous and more necessary. I am not the bright-eyed and bushy tailed hippie I once was, but I hold on to hope, and try to see better days ahead. We had the music, and we had the heart. It suffices - for me - to not be nostalgic about the past (which tends to make you bitter and/or fanciful), but to be aware of what we had, and how it still represents a "good path" toward being fully human and alive to each moment.

 

PLEASE stop trying to be a hippie and just be yourself.

 

i live among hippies...i am a hippie, i'm raising my kidz 2 B hippies i believe hippie is a state of being not an era gone by. as long as there r tree hugging, music loving, pot smoking, peace seeking individuals out there hippies exist.

 

Hippies will always be around and have always been around, maybe just not called hippies. As for being important, I don't think that was ever the goal of hippies.

 

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Except for ending slavery, fascism, nazism, and communism,
war has never solved anything. ​

Not to mention, slowing over population. ​

And by the way aren't those other things still around?
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"Hippie" is a state of mind, and it will never die. We hippies recognize each other across generations and across national borders. There are hippie grandmothers like me, and there are hippie kids like the sweet young man who lives down the street from me. He's 17 years old and when he comes over to help me with yardwork, I tell him all about how it was in the 60's and he tells me about how it is now. We come from different worlds, and he's younger than most of my grandkids, but the universal hippie in each of us reaches out to the other.

So no, hippies are definitely not a thing of the past.

 

I've always said hippies have always been around, it's just that they haven't always been called hippies.