What have you done to earn your 'Hippie' Badge?

Hi, hope your doing well...

But I kinda disagree...the original hippies placed a lot on the line...at least the activist ones...some were beat within inches of their lives...expecially the ones who marched in the south along with the civil rights movement...and some were killed...
The hippie movement back then was very volatile...and got the attention of the FBI...cause at one point some thought the whole country was going to collapse...
The hippies back then were a different breed, spurned on by a different era...

What they did back then was very 'uncool' or 'unpopular' to the establishment...they were branded awful names because of it...
You gotta go back to the 1950 and 60's mentality to really put it in perspective...when most women still wore dresses...segregation was still seen as normal, the governmer of Alabama was a open segregationist...
Emmit Till....
Believe me you...the hippies back then weren't being hippies for 'fashion' or to be 'cute'...(maybe some were) but they weren't the meat of the movement...
This was back before ET or Access Hollywood or Mtv or cable...
Hippies were seen as a national threat by many in the law enforcement community, right along with the black panthers and other such groups deemed 'radical'....it was indeed a different time and had a different feel.

I just want todays hippies to remember their roots...blood indeed was spilt...and lives lost. '

Indeed it was an Army of Love ...please never forget that....

 

Your point is well taken...

I'm just old enough to have started school during the tail end of the hippie era... and got a certain impression of the local youths (then the "older kids") and the general intolerance for anyone not fitting into the rebel stereotype. Granted, these were school kids and as such ascribe to group think mentality much as kids have more or less always done.

Your response might well be that I never really was in contact with real hippies and I'd tell you were 100% correct without hesitation. My sense is that in the late 60's and early 70's there really weren't all that many real hippies but a population of posers who wore their badge regardless of their real beliefs- and at what price they'd abandon the ones they espoused at the moment. They were very busy effectively giving the retail business world marketing lessons and availing to them a measure of leverage into their parents' bank accounts. the main passions behind the popular movements in the 60's included a military draft which brought the immediacy of our country's foreign policy mistake into nearly every neighborhood and family who served up cannon fodder for the purpose of...?

No cause is seen as important enough for anyone to stick their necks out in newsworthy numbers these days.. but even in the day- those were a vast minority- otherwise history seems to be repeating itself. The social hippie clique seems to have re emerged.

We do not have the postwar reactionary mentality in charge now... damned few alive today are even old enough to really remember the second world war let alone the great depression. In a sense the soil for the hippie generation was turned with these two events- the seeds were sown, literally and figuratively by the baby boom era and a standard of living that offered the once rare combination luxury of not wondering where next weeks/month's/year's meals will be coming from AND having a good measure of free time.... not to mention dwindling physical isolation with the introduction of the interstate highway system and cultural isolation as televisions began to appear in every living room.... offering to the public among other things, a new and less idealized view of military combat not offered by idealized Movietone news reels shown in theaters.

 

I have a 'give peace a chance' badge on my parka.

 

There are incidents that have, are, will have a bearing on the character that I am,
several and varied.. In verse my persona, that has been, is and continues ...

I think of myself as a Hippie–your opinion is noted for sure,
No I’m not lazy or dirty or weird–and I know not if there is a cure,
I live my life as I do wish to–you may not be my number 1 fan,
But I have my beliefs and my feelings–allow me them, if you so can.

Peace, Justice + freedom are uppermost–are thoughts that I have in my head,
I’m not for oppression and violence–though my opinion, I feel, must be said,
Whether sat in a crowd, or solo meditate–I discus or we think all alone,
I am my own man, I am a singular–I am not a society clone.

I wish to see harmony general–and that love will obliterate hate,
I want to see peoples united-and that they celebrate peace with their mate,
The end of my quest, it is distant–and may be an impossible goal,
Regardless, I’ll continue, endeavour–to attain inner peace in my soul.

Don’t mock as I sit with my flowers–cut out all those jibes at my dress,
Don’t treat me with contempt and with fury–it’s the World that is sat in a mess.
I know I annoy you with questions-I know that you wish me away,
But I’m here to stay, and I promise–if you listen you’ll realise one day,

I am not full of hot air and rubbish–there are remedies to be found,
But we must work together, as comrades–and calculate ideas that are sound,
If you don’t and persist so to shun me – don’t take in the things that I say,
I’ll sympathise and continue to irritate–and always will remain me this way

< Peace + Love ~ Save the Planet >

 

There's a new group of people that I like to call funky punks. They are only conisdered hippies because they don't care about the clothes they wear, nor the conventional methods of living. They have dreadlocks, but only because they can't be bothered to find a place to wash their hair. They are movers, train hoppers, with no real HOME anywhere. I'm not downing these people.. I've met a lot that I liked, but they are not trying to make a difference. They are called hippies, but they aren't.

Seems to me that hippies were revolutionists. They actually caused change.. because they were different and a little scary to some. Now there's nothing scary or different about hippies and because of this they no longer bring about changes. Once everyone starts trying to do the same thing it's no longer shocking. So now a days the kids that are hippies are only a label.. if only because they "REFUSE to be labeled!" Ask your average 16 year old hippy about the world, the government, about what THEY are doing to make a difference..

 

I have not done anything to earn my Hippie Badge.

Nor am I clear what advantages having such a badge would bring.

Would it get me into elite hippie clubs? (Are there any elite hippie clubs.)

How about drugs? Well never mind, I am good on the drugs.

Would the hippie chicks swoon at the sight of such a badge?

So what can I do to get the Hippie Badge?

Am I making a difference. No, but I am having a pretty good time...aside from the usual bullshit I draw into my life.

So what does it take?

 

Does growing "oregano" count? Cause if it does, then I SO have my badge.

 

i have a badge

 

OP seems to have a seriously romanticized version of OG hippies.

 

I’m going to let my hair grow back into an afro and wear a headband this summer

Hotwater

 

kill a pig, then refuse to eat it.

 

oooooooo! do it!

 

well, i vote to legalize marijuana. mainly 'cause i think it's a stupid law to have it illegal and i believe hippies should stay home on their couches and not mingle with the rest of society.

 

Sadly I’m a lost cause

The military put the whammy on me and I’ll die with a buzz cut


Hotwater

 

bummer. not even a wig simply for the joy of posting the pic? c'mon!rettyplease:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1UTDSVpcHw"]YouTube- GIANT AFRO PICK



Hotwater

 

Must have done something, kids call me hippie.

 

that's so awesome. i love how they show the bush with nothing in it. that's newsmanship at it's best!

 

At least if they have to use filler like this, obviously no one got murdered that day.

 

yeah, that's nice.