What things about the hippy/counterculture scene really bug you? Two things come to mind for me: Parents giving their children made up or intentionally mispelled names. Thats just cruel, objectifying, self-obsessed, and thoughtless of the consequences. Use of the suffix "ism" as its own pejorative noun. Talk about reductionist...
lol i totaly disagree.. my dad named me agfter himself pete..boring ads hell.. i was later given the name soaring eagle & that is what i preffer to be called..everytime someone calls me pete i just cringe.. i wish my parents had the imagination to think up an interesting name and no clue what u mean by ism
For me it would have to be how they basicly sat around and protest ahem-complained in groups- and didn't put together a concrete idea of how to run society, and now for some reason people think they made a lot of change, when things have stayed the same. they made some of the greatest music ever, though. same thing goes for todays neohippies. except the music. i dont dig that strokes franz crapinand all that much.
This is very specific, but there's a predominately liberal/gay neighborhood down the street from here, and they're trying to shut down a soup kitchen that's been operating for 20 years because someone got murdered there. It's just frustrating because the kitchen only operates once a week, and it's feeding so many people who need the free meal. It's also upseting that a predominately liberal/gay neighborhood full of people who I would say have been discriminated against or at least shunned are now shunning needy people. Second bothersome thing is the smell. Hippies smell sometimes.
Agreed. While American culture may be a bit too obsessed with bathing and the accompanying perfumes, soap should be used at least twice a month as a matter of health.
if you want to be accepted you should be accepting of others (I try to follow this, I know I don't, but I don't really want to be accepted so there we are) so many groups are so concerened about themselves they are ready to sell the others down the river......
bluebong - I agree with you about parents giving their children made up or intentionally mispelled names. It can even get worse! Many years ago, a hippie friend of mine named her son GINGER - because of Ginger Baker! He was constantly teased at school. When he was 12, she finally legally had his name changed.
