So what’s a new hippie?

"New Hippies" are younger......

 

i think the term hippie is now used more to justify the type of person they are, even if they arent a hippie. Me for instance, im peaceful, play guitar, long hair, smokes pot, all that jazz, and i get called a hippie sometime, but i dont think im a hippie...

 

And I don't play guitar (yet), smoke pot (yet), or have long hair (yet), but I consider myself a hippy.

 

i have hippie viewpoints
and in some ways are like the stereotypical "hippie" (by looks)
and while i don't care if i'm called a hippie
sometimes i think that i'm not completely a hippie
and by that i mean a true hippie, as in the originals
so sometimes i like to call myself a "modern" hippie
i don't really know if that make sense, i'm half asleep

 

Just get rid of the term "hippie". It's just another barrier in society...

 

I agree that "hippie" should be done away with. someone needs to coin a new phrase for people trying to change the world now, other then "activists". god i hate that........ i dont eat meat so all the people in my school call me an activist. it really pisses me off.

 

Right,Lisa..titles are useless..I agree..
If there were no hippies around anymore..
then this forum has no reason to exist..
being a hippie is a state of mind..
no more..and no less..
Emiel

 

True. There's this one girl I know who thinks she's a hippie--she listens to the music and dresses the part and says she's anti-war, but she just says the stupidest, most offensive things that contradict that other part of her. She's just a little rich brat whose daddy buys her everything she needs. I think it's funny that she wants to be all "bohemian" and buy her shirts from Goodwill, and yet she'll also spend exhorbitant amounts of money on jewelry and her car and other things. It's just not consistent.

Me, I think the whole label thing is just bullshit. Some people call me a hippie, some people call me a punk, some people say I'm a mod, some people say I'm insane (lol), but those who know me just say that I'm me. That is what makes you a hippie in my book.

 

zu anser de question:
Nu hippies ah de same as old hippies
except ve know dat pot vill screw us ova
(and ve still dont listen)
and life vas differn't den. ve haf mor now, den dey did den.
and some difffern't problems, but some of de same.
an ve haf peoples vo haf ben hippies befor, nd de tell us vat ve do rong vit ourselves

 

i get the idea of how lables can be very negative, but i can also see it can be used to loosley describe a person. The label thing is over attacked in my view.


However if you want to be exact on the lable you use. Yes the lable hippy is commonly used for the generation of the 60s. There are young people who resemble that older generation and refer to them as New Age.

 

I wouldn't attack the label thing, I just don't go in for it. I see how it can excite someone who is slightly hippie-ish to be called a hippie, and then that person goes about and does everything to fill in the gaps in order to act the part, not because it's who they are. I share commonalities with many labels, but I do so because it's what I respond to, not because it's how I want to be perceived. If other people are fine with it, great. But me and my friends are all pretty much undefinable; we're the freaks I guess if you wanted to label us.

I actually think the old hippie thing has expanded so now the hippies are a lot more diverse even than they were in the sixties. It's good, because you have the punk movement merging with the hippie movement and the preppy look merging with the hippie/punk movement and everything else. African and African-American culture has also merged a lot with the current hippie movement. It's just not as clean-cut as the hippies of the previous generation, but that's a good thing. It means it's surviving.

 

A hippie that isn't bought from a pawnshop

 

I decided today (kirk was their he knwos) that when people aski what i am(which is oddly all the tyme) Im gunna tell them im unclassified. I hate labels

 

well.. if i put a classified ad in the paper about you, then you would be a LIAR.


sorry, i dont know what i'm talking about.

 

A "hippie" today is kind of the wrong term to use since the only hippies were really in the 60's. but thier still alive today. there can be new ones, just not really called hippies per say. but it is true that thier "changing the world" methods have slowed. although i go to many boycotts and demonstrations, but unfortunatly, many people feel it is not going to do anything. they still smoke alot of weed (most) and listen to the music from the sixties. fav's of mine include bob marley, pink floyd, led zepp, janis joplin, and some new ones like ac/dc, black sabbath, sublime, and all that good crap.

 

i smell a tom petty fan. are you a petty fan^,

 

dude. i never understand people who say "hippies are only people from the sixties". (no offence). like how come? if the people are fitting the same description, whats it matter what the decade is? time is irrelevant to the beauty of a person. which is really, in my opinion, what would make the difference in who they are. (and the label that might fit under).

in my last life i lived through the sixties. can i be a hippie man? lol

 

yea and whens there gunna be a powdered wig fad?

 

haha. yes, i am a tom petty fan.

to maryfairy:
i'm sorry. what i said was dumb. of course you can still be a hippie today. what you said is so true. ha. THE HIPPIES MAY REIN TODAY!!!

 

today! you better go out and get one.


i'll sell you mine for 50 bucks. which will be a real deal, since they are going to be the cool new thing and Abercrombie will sell them for 100 bucks each hair. at least.