Since im in the Hip Forum, i figured this would be the best place to get an answer for this question, am i right?....What is a hippy in everybodys own opinion? Me myself, i dont think im a hippy, i just tend to get along with the hippy kids better.
Welcome to the Forums and this post has been asked like a billion times but i'll answer it anwyas I dont think a Hippie is a person i believe it is a state of mind, a way of thought and a way of living. I think they are free-minding people willing to help anyone, and dont cridize people of what they look like or where they come from. I could go on for ages but i spose they are a few of the main points peace and love
good point...Well with that being said, i guess im a hippy...I always pictured a hippy to be somebody who loves tie dye stuff, is into music like the doors, is all about peace, and the regular stereotype stuff..
That's a good start, I agree that it's a state of mind more than anything. Open-mindedness, tie dye stuff, music, outdoors, peace, and free thinking are certainly key traits. I would also add that hippies tend to be spiritual, have a holistic/organic life style, lack materialistic values, question authority/government, and tend to be community oriented.
Those are just stereotypes. They don't apply to every person that considers themself a hippie. The whole idea of trying to figure out what's a hippie and what isn't is ridiculous. You people need to stop worrying about labels. You need to stop thinking about how other people see you. Start living. Start doing what you want to do because you want to do it. Make yourself happy and forget about what stereotype to dress up as.
i REAL hippy... well i read some where that in order to be called a hippy you must be young in the 60s, do drugs, peaceful, against the gov. I am not saying that later generations cant consider themselves hippies.The literal name for hippy have those rules though. Other than that it is not about what bands you listen to, if you do drugs, if you like hippy clothes. Its about peace and a need for change. Just my opinion.
Hey, I was just responding in the context of the thread, I wasn't passing judgement on how to act or how to think. I agree that putting labels on people isn't the way to go, but, given the question...it's like asking "what is a Republican?" You might answer something like right wing conservative, materialist, greedy, you get the idea... On one of my posts I mentioned that IMO the label "hippie" doesn't really apply here and now anyway, since the "real" hippies are like 60 years old, and I'm 41, so I'm too young, but I remember the "real" hippies back when I was four years old. That's not to say someone can't be "hip" in these times, and it ain't all that different now than it was back then, given the big picture, considering the war in Iraq is similar to the Vietnam war, etc. If you try to be a "hippie" by wearing tie dye, etc., you're not one 'cause you're conforming to something, and hippies, by definition, are non-conformists. It's a state of mind, not a label. Headymoechick, I'm a BIG fan of moe. by the way.
(Oh god... I was supposed to get 2nd row seats to the allmans and moe at VA Beach. The tickets got lost in the mail.)
hippie is not a yuppy instead a hippie has a nice puppy a hippie hates the man and his little pal dan a hippie lives for true freedom in this beautiful kingdom
Correct me if i'm wrong but i don't think "hippies" started calling theselfs hippies. I do believe it startd with govm't propaganda. If you were "hip" to the whole counter culture drug scene in the 60's you were considerd a hippy. but with that aside i think hippies have evolved and just like southerners who still consider themselfs rebels even though they wern't born in the civil war era. hippies are still around and new ones are born every day. but for the most part hippie is like a counterculture sub-type, like beatniks and punks and femministes etc. etc.
hip·pie also hip·py (hp) n. pl. hip·pies A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
I'm so sick of people that respond to this question in this way. If you're tired of it, don't open the thread.
The Hippie culture When people think about the 60's, one of the first things that come to their mind are hippies and their liberal attitude and lifestyle. Back then hippies were considered just as people who didn't want to conform to society and therefore created an own world trying to escape from reality. They were considered not only as a subculture but even as a counterculture that has a disrupting affect on society. Most people didn't even bother themselves trying to understand their philosophy, their aims or demands. Politicians didn't really take them for serious. Hence these prejudices caused an overall misunderstanding and veiled the real spirit and the essence of this culture. In reality being a hippie was a matter of accepting a belief system which transcends the social, political, and moral norms of any established structure. It was their ambition to abolish any kind of hierarchy to make sure that people are no longer judged by their race ,gender, religion or social class. It was a very revolutionary attitude for that time and therefore the establishment feared and tried to suppress them.. The hippies stood for peace, love and freedom. For them the only way to establish peace in the world was through love and tolerance. They thought the society's biggest mistake was reducing the judgement of people to narrow definitions. It was important to bring virtue and humanity into the system. Being open-minded you were able to attend a state of mind that allows for maximum of personal growth. Searching for something that was lacking in our capitalistic and materialistic societies they turned to eastern cultures which strongly influenced their philosophy. They developed a close relationship to nature. Through meditating and other "spiritual" rites they tried to enter higher spheres, new dimensions and the subconscious. Even though the hippie movement represented a minority it played a very important role in the 60's. This showed once more that many small people in many small places doing many small things are able to change the world. Many "big" and "small" people tried to change the world in the 60's. Some of them the hitch hiker's guide will try to make you familiar with.
Well said Headmoechick! Way back in '65 I was minding my own biz and had rented a big ole house (Evergreen House) near campus that turned into the party house that summer. Ironicly we had no drugs other than alcohol. The next we knew the cops arrested thirty of us for "vacrancy in a private huosehold". The following moring the local papers had headlines screaming "Hippies Discovered in San Antonio!!!" and since the lease was in my name the cops took the attitude I was responsable for the infestation throughout south Texas. In that time and place it was a label no diff than the infamous "N" word. That was the first I'd heard of the whole concept. Now I've been here in SF, the Emerald Triangle, and along the Rainbow Trail for the last 40 years or so and I still wonder if I understand it all sometimes. *LOL*
yes, any label can be ridiculous. Few of my kids could be considered "hippy" by some, but my kids don't use the label themselves...in fact they try to totally avoid the word...probably because of societies negative image of a hippy. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Flower-Power Bus Hippie (or sometimes "hippy") is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word, "hippie" was coined by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, hippies expressed their desire for change with communal or nomadic lifestyles, by renouncing corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, by embracing aspects of non-traditional religious cultures, and with criticism of Western middle class values. Such criticism included the views that the goverment was paternalistic, corporate industry was greedy and domineering, traditional morals were askew, and war was inhumane. The structures and institutions they rejected came to be called the establishment. The term "hippie" has also been used in a derogatory sense, to describe long-haired unkempt drug users, who by beatnik standards was someone that was not "Hip" or "aware" or "clever" enough to really be "hip". Conservatives of the time (until recently) used the term "hippie" as an insult towards young liberals, though this use has declined (perhaps due to the conservative affiliation of aging hippies, or "yuppies"). To add to the confusion, many so-called hippies preferred to call themselves "freaks". "Hippies" of the time were interested in "tuning in to their inner minds" (with drugs, mystic meditation, or a combination of both) and dropping out of mainstream society. This influence was from far eastern metaphysical and religious practices that were done mostly by monks and aboriginal shaman in the past. The inclusion of far eastern religious practice in religious circles of the 1970s became a New Age movement for Mystics and "Spiritual Seekers," as well as a joke for hipster comedians. A famous modern pop culture example of the word "hippie" as an insult is its use by the popular fictional television character Eric Cartman from South Park.
It means you've given recognition to the label others have chosen for you so they can neatly categorize you with a generalization in order to cope with why you are different to their percieved model of what a person should be in this society. If it doesn't mean this then you're just a fashion hippy and you'll grow out of it. ~
