What is a young hippie?

I must say you sound like an awesome person!! A little like me, except I am the ONLY Hippie in my school! I got told I had a 'reputation' today haha.

 

Eric Clapton and Blind Faith, young hippies, back in the day.

I guess, if you send out the same vibes as the early hippies did, then you can call yourself one.

Sea of Joy - Blind Faith
http://youtube.com/watch?v=tfdHNWJ1Xhk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J-n6Z897W_I

 

I'm pretty much the only person not in the Art department that dresses like a hippie... I've seen guys in nepalese hats (I've got one but it's at home), multicoloured Tshirts etc. but they're all doing Art, Photography or Drama.
No hippies in my class, department or even faculty some cool people, great guys and gals, but no hippies. Guess we all like to be around people who we share something in common with.. hence the popularity of this site, because hippies as a breed are dying out.. what will they be replaced with when we are old hippies?

And cosmic jackie, keep up the good work! You're not alone. Not all of us are lucky enough to live in hippie-dense areas - at my school (lot of posh gits) I was the only one in the entire school wearing a "Ban foxhunting" badge.. I'd say 90% of the people were wearing Countryside Alliance badges. I got some looks of death, but since I'm a black belt in Aikido nobody quite had the guts to come right out and say anything to my face (it was all rumours and talking behind my back, which sucked but I wasn't interested in their opinions anyway).

 

Our children, and our Children's children. Well I hope so anyway!

 

If we have any.. the procreative urge is stronger than ever, but not many people want children. Contraceptive use wasn't as widepsread in the 60s so many hippie women had more kids than they bargained for.
One thing's for sure - I ain't getting married. Marriage is just about the worst thing that can happen to a relationship - ask any couple that've been married for 10 or so years. Old couples don't count so much cause they obviously had a relationship strong enough (or a strong enough sense of societal pressure) to keep the relationship going for years.

 

I'm quite keen on pagan handfasting ceremonies. Last a year and a day, not so much commitment yet they mean just as much. I do want kids, but maybe girls just have that maternal urge. I'm planning on waiting a few years yet though!!!

 

Probably a good idea
And yes, handfastings are a good idea. Although they aren't legally binding - it's the legal side of marriage that I find distasteful. Why get the government involved in your love? There's no real financial benefit (although it's easier to leave someone an inheritance if they're married to you - otherwise relatives could contest it).
No reason at all to go through costly marriage > find out you don't like each other > costlier divorce > bloke has to pay alimony, losing part of his wages for the rest of his life over a silly mistake.

 

I just have to look at my parent's marriage to know all taht. They would never get divorced, but they should.

 

" I must say you sound like an awesome person!! A little like me, except I am the ONLY Hippie in my school! I got told I had a 'reputation' today haha."
haha, thank you :]
Yeah man, like theres those kids who smoke alot & listen to good music. Besides, like me, thats the closest people in my school get. haha

 

- HIPPIES: THE NEXT GENERATION??? -

Or, is it: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION??? This NEXT GENERATION (of children, teens) is supposedly the STAR CHILDREN, INDIGO CHILDREN, CRYSTALLINE CHILDREN, RAINBOW CHILDREN or COSMIC KIDS.

- INDIGO CHILDREN ARE HIPPY-LIKE? -

Do a YAHOO internet SEARCH on: INDIGO CHILDREN, and see what you get? ABC NEWS even had a SPECIAL about them! The PROPHECIES (both ancient and new) have spoke of their arrival! EDGAR CAYCE and DR. ROBERT GHOST WOLF (HOPI NATION), for example ( www.wolflodge.org ). These NEW GENERATION KIDS and TEENS (INDIGO CHILDREN) have extremely similar beliefs and philosophies to the old HIPPIES! So it's a COOL and "happening thing" to be HIPPY, nowadays! They have powerful intellectual, spiritual and psychic abilities! Expand MIND and SPIRIT!

"Is humanity changing as a species? The new kids on the block: A global phenomenon. Renowned prophet and healer Edgar Cayce (1877-1945) not only spoke of a new humanity and referred to it as the 5th ROOT RACE, but he also predicted that it would appear in the years 1998 to 2010."
ARTICLE: "The New Humans - Part 1, by Mary Rodwell, Posted: 11:00 April 29,2007"
LINK: www.ufodigest.com/news/0407/newhumans.html

"25: There will also be amongst these Children of the New Dream a total contempt for the consciousness (religious) political and social structures, to that which created the abominable conidtions that they will see running rampant in the world bent on self destruction." - Dr. Robert Ghost Wolf (THE HOPI NATION)

-YOUNG OR OLD - HIPPY? -

I'm a YOUNG HIPPY, in THE ETERNAL NOW (60's term on a PURPLE-colored badge that I bought from ebay). TIME is just an "illusion", as only THE ETERNAL NOW exists! In the LINEAR TIME-LINE, that I'm in now, I'm an OLD HIPPY. I had to LIVE and EXPERIENCE the 60's/70's DIRECTLY. EINSTEIN's "Theory of RELATIVITY", you know. QUANTUM PHYSICS is difficult, yet FUN, to study and learn.

-HIPPY, OR NEOHIPPY, THAT IS THE QUESTION? -

TERMS such as hippy, neohippy, yippy (ABBIE HOFMANN), redneck, hillbilly, preppie, nerd, geek, greaser (50's), punker (80'), goth, skinhead, yuppy, straights, and so forth, are merely LABELS, like we put a label onto a can of soup! These LABELS are also called STEREOTYPES of BEHAVIOR PATTERNS. We also "stereotype" cultural and ethnic groups, like: IRISH, ITALIAN, GREEK, AMERICAN, RUSSIAN, CHINESE and so on. Many people can be a combination of one or more stereotypes, such as HIPPY-HILLBILLY.

EXACT "definitions" for any of these terms is difficult to pin-down, yet we try. The LABEL of "NEOHIPPY" sounds cool to me, as the next generation of hippies is almost the same as the old-originals (like me), but yet, there are some subtle differences.

Original HIPPY WOMAN usually wore just STRAIGHT, VERY LONG hair. Many ORIGINAL HIPPY WOMEN had the traditional LONG DRESSES, but in SUMMERTIME, they would also wear "cut-off" JEANS short-shorts, plus a loose-fitting top/blouse and then go barefootin'. MEXICAN PONCHOS and OVER-ALLS (more 70-ish) were also worn, by many a HIP WOMAN. And that's the way it was!

Current YOUNG HIPPIES, wear JAMAICAN styles, like the RASTAFARIAN "DREAD LOCKS" and RAINBOW-colored TAM (beret-style) hats, mon!!! The older HIPPIES just had regular LONG HAIR, unless you were Afro-American, and had a BIG FRO. Angela DAVIS! BLACK POWER!! POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!! The only JAMAICAN was the POT that the OLD HIPPIES smoked!!!

- REEFER MADNESS??? Or, "WACKY-TOBACCY" -

POT is very different from ALCOHOL, and is still ILLEGAL in most areas, except in CALIFORNIA (and the CITY OF DETROIT), where it has been LEGALIZED FOR MEDICAL USE ONLY! The CITY of ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN "DE-CRIMINALIZED" pot-possession to a $50 FINE! A long time ago, it was just a $5 fine (INFLATION?)! First time pot-smokers may find out that the main effects may take a week, or so, to kick in. INTENSE, INTERNAL, COLORFUL VISIONS (like DREAMING, while you're AWAKE), should eventually occur.

"nynysuts" might look cool in DREADLOCKS, mon! It'd be more HIP!

- 60's/70's HIPPY FASHIONS -

Far Eastern INDIAN and PAKISTAN clothing were popular, but now if you wore that, you might be considered a "terrorist"! Native American MOCASSINS and cowboy boots and coats were worn, also! In HIGH SCHOOL I wore a pair of Native-American TAOS-tribe MOCASSINS! I never wore "love beads" or peace-symbol jewelry.

The only TIE-DYE shirt that I wore was one that my sister made by herself (purple and white), otherwise TIE-DYE wasn't worn at all. Bell-bottoms were very COOL for the early-70's. I had a pair of brown WIDE BELL BOTTOMS , that were "bleached" and looked like a PALIMINO PONY! Brightly-colored PAISLEY and big POLKA-DOTTED dress shirts were also VERY POPULAR on MALE MODSTERS! I wear alot of TIE-DYE now, because I DIDN'T in the 60's/70's, and NOW wearing TIE-DYE seems to make people smile, when they walk by, as it reminds them of peacefull and less-stress-full times, i.e. NOSTALGIA!

NEOHIPPY is an apppropiate term to use, however, just HIPPY would be fine, as who has ever heard of NEOREDNECKS, NEOHILLBILLIES, NEONERDS, NEOGEEKS, NEOPREPPIES, NEOPUNKERS, NEOSTRAIGHTS and so on. These STEROTYPICAL GROUPS don't put the word NEO in front of their labels, so you don't have to either!

In the 60's and 70's I didn't want to become anything, I was just a TEENAGER growing-up in the TIME-PERIODS back then (reacting to my SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT), and like typical TEENAGERS, I'd follow the fashions and behavior patterns of my fellow teenagers. The OLDER GENERATION just labled us HIPPIES (as a GENERATIONAL GROUP), and later, we were called FREAKS.

- Although ESENTIALLY HIPPY, I would change as the DECADES came by -

60's/70's - HIPPY
80's - NEW WAVE, PUNK, GOTHIC
90's - GRUNGE, SKA "OUTDOORSY-GOING FISHING LOOK", SOME RAVE "TRIP-HOP" and "TRANCE" MUSIC
00's (2000-2008) - NEW MILLENIUM (AGE of AQUARIUS) STAR CHILDREN, INDIGOS, COSMIC KIDS

FIRST WAVE INDIGO-ADULTS: www.firstwaveindigos.com (INDIGO CHILDREN born in the 50's (30%)! Maybe me??? INDIGO CHILDREN/ADULT HUMOR: "You Might Be An Indigo IF...." (Similar to JEFF FOXWORTHY's: "You might be a REDNECK, if..." HUMOR) www.firstwaveindigos.com/pages/MightBeIndigoIf.html EXAMPLE: "If you're addicted to Star Trek you may be a nerd. If you're building a Star Trek warp drive core in your basement... you might be an indigo."

The NEW WAVE, PUNK, GOTHIC 80's were just as FUN and WILD as the 60's and 70's! There was a TV show called: THAT 80's SHOW (a take-off of: THAT 70's SHOW), but it didn't last long, i.e. it was CANCELLED! THE HIPPY MOVEMENT is the best PHILOSOPHIES to LIVE BY (in the LONG RUN)!!! The new STAR CHILDREN movement is very similar to the old HIPPY MOVEMENT, just more COSMIC in pespective and scope!

GROOVE ON YOUNG HIPSTERS!!!

Peace, love and understanding . . .

 

Kind

a sounds like

another form of

the old "who's a real

hippie" thing.

People are saying we're

too young to be hippies

so what will we call

ourselves now?

Hailtothekingbaby sad it though.

It is that simple.

 

"groovecookie",

You may have slightly mis-understood what I was trying to say in my post (on this thread). I was just describing the time-period differences between the ORIGINAL (60's/early 70's) HIPPIES and the following NEXT GENERATIONS of HIPPIES, now referred to as YOUNG HIPPIES. By my way of reasoning, and definitions, I DEFINITELY believe that YOUNG HIPPIES are REAL HIPPIES!!!

In your post (on this THREAD), you sounded sort of sad, that you may not be considered a REAL HIPPY, but we're just dealing with SEMANTICS (word play and differences in PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITIONS here)! SKIP (our Hip Forums Webmaster) got rid of the YOUNG HIPPIES FORUM, probably (I'm guessing here) because it is a type of "age discrimination" and that HIPPIES OF ALL AGES are just HIPPIES!!! This is really smart of SKIP, because we HIPPIES must be UNITED (and not "DIVIDED and CONQUERED")!!!

We shouldn't fight among ourselves, as this is what our NWO/ILLUMINATI controllers want!!! We should STRIVE for LESS DIVISION and MORE UNITY OF GROUP CONSCIOUSNESS!!! MORE HARMONY IN OUR UNIVERSE!!! HIGHER SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION DEMANDS this!!!

Us OLD HIPPIES are slowly DYING-off, and MUST PASS THE HIPPY TORCH onto our FUTURE HIPPY GENERATION, i.e. the YOUNG HIPPIES!!! So don't BLOW THIS TORCH OUT!!! Like BORISKA BOY (RUSSIA'S most famous INDIGO CHILD, and interviewed on http://projectcamelot.net/boriska.html ), I believe in an ETERNAL SOUL, so I don't FEAR DEATH! Some OLD HIPPIES could possibly re-incarnate into a YOUNG HIPPY body! Eventually, all of the YOUNG HIPPIES will become the OLD HIPPIES and maybe have a another generation of YOUNG HIPPIES!!!

Most of "hippy.com-ers" are YOUNG HIPPIES, anyway!!! Some may have taken on their "HIPPY PARENT'S" HIPPY-beliefs, while others may have just chosen to ADOPT the HIPPIE PHILOSOPHY, as their MAIN BELIEF SYSTEM. Still others, may have CONVERTED from another LIFE-STYLE (like NERD, PUNKER, PREPPIE, HILLBILLY, or STRAIGHT-EDGE), or just COMBINE (or "HYBRIDIZE") two LIFE-STYLES into ONE!!!

"redeyedrevolutionary" (who started this THREAD) said that: "... people keep telling me that there really aren't any hippies under the age of 60." I don't know who these "people" are, but I'm not one of them!!! According to this DEFINITION, I must be a YOUNG HIPPY too, as I'm under 60 years of age (54, to be EXACT)!!! At the time of WOODSTOCK (in AUGUST of 1969), I was 15 years old.

I was a YOUNGER ORIGINAL HIPPY, sort of on the"TAIL-END" of the HIPPY movement, but since I was RAISED (as a CHILD) mostly in the 1960's (when the human mind receives most of its MAIN PROGRAMMING), I was more of a TRUE (60's CHILD) in PROGRAMMED BELIEFS, than the OLDER ORIGINAL HIPPIES, who were more PROGRAMMED from the 50's. However, the first 7-YEARS of LIFE, is when the MOST INFLUENCIAL MENTAL-PROGRAMMING takes place, so from this PERSPECTIVE, I was MOST INFLUENCIALLY-PROGRAMMED fom the 1950's, and the OLDER ORIGINAL HIPPIES, would be more LATER 1940's INFLUENCED!!!

BY DEFINITION, YOUNG HIPPIES can't be ORIGINAL HIPPIES (as this is DEFINED by existing at a CERTAIN AGE, in a CERTAIN TIME-PERIOD). And VICE-VERSA, ORIGINAL HIPPIES can't be YOUNG YIPPIES (unless they die and RE-INCARNATE as a YOUNG HIPPY). US OLD HIPPIES were just TEENAGERS, growing up in the 60's/early 70's, and we reacted with CERTAIN BEHAVIOR PATTERNS, toward our given SPACE-TIME ENVIRONMENT (ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY / SOCIOLOGY), plus whatever the SOCIAL ENGINEERS (CIA, TAVISTOCK) threw at us!!!

A certain new LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY was created from this "BABY-BOOMER'S GENERATION", called the HIPPY LIFE-STYLE (PHILOSOPHY). The term HIPPY was coined as a "STEREOTYPICAL label" for followers of this new philosphy of living. The CONSERVATIVE GENERATION (i.e. "SQUARES") were greatly opposed to this life-style. They sharply CRITICIZED it and later called HIPPIES: "FREAKS" or "HIPPY FREAKS"!!! This helped SOCIAL ENGINEERS to "DIVIDE and CONQUER" (and thus better, CONTROL) 60's SOCIETY, by setting-up a conflicting: GENERATION GAP!!!

How many YOUNG HIPPIES would like to be called "YOUNG FREAKS", or "YOUNG HIPPY FREAKS"??? Not many, I hope!!! Sometimes, us ORIGINAL (OLD) HIPPIES were called these names! Yes, "hailtothekingbaby" DID SAY it SIMPLY as: "They're hippies that are young, It is really as simple as that." From the PERSPECTIVE, as an OLD HIPPY, I TOTALLY AGREE with "hailtothekingbaby"'s POST!!! YOUNG NERDS, YOUNG HILLBILLES, or YOUNG YUPPIES, don't use the word "YOUNG" in front of their NEXT GENERATIONS of YOUTHFUL LIFE-STYLE PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEVER'S, so YOUNG HIPPIES should just be referred to SIMPLY, as HIPPIES!!!

- REGARDING THE MAIN HIPPY PHILOSOPHY -

ALL HIPPIES don't smoke POT, and/or "trip on ACID", plus VICE VERSA, all TEENAGERS who smoke POT and/or "trip on ACID" ARE NOT necessarily HIPPIES!!! Many TEENAGERS, who "flocked" to the HAIGHT-ASHBURY "HIPPY SCENE", were just TROUBLED TEENS, who were "SELF-MEDICATING" on DRUGS! Ever watch OLD 60's HIPPY DOCUMENTARIES? These TROUBLED TEENS, may have adopted THE HIPPY PHILOSOPHY later in life. However. there were also many TRUE HIPPIES, there as well!!!

The ORIGINAL HIPPIES were mostly criticized for LIVING OFF OF THE SYSTEM, that they were supposedly "REBELING" against, except those BRAVE HIPPY SOULS who tried to set-up HIPPY COMMUNES!!! Also, HIPPIES were sharply criticized for BAD HYGENIC PRACTICES!!! "Those DIRTY HIPPIES!!!", was the cry of the "SQUARES".

HIPPY is a specific LIFE-STYLE, mostly geared toward: LOVE, PEACE, COMPASSION, RESPECT FOR MOTHER EARTH AND ALL PEOPLES, TOLERANCE OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BELIEFS, PHILOSOPHIES, LIFESTYLES and CULTURES and a STRONG DESIRE for SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION and MIND-EXPANSION (sometimes involving ETHENOGENIC SUBSTANCES, like PSYCHEDELICS: MARIJUANA and LSD, as PRIME EXAMPLES. They are usually ANTI-WAR, ANTI-FASCIST and strong ENVIRONMENTALISTS ("tree-huggers"?).

TEENAGED HIPPIES are more orientated toward (FOCUSED ON): FASHIONS (CLOTHES), FASHION ACCESSORIES (like: LOVE BEADS, PEACE SIGN JEWELERY, HEADBANDS, and so forth), DATING and TEENAGED SOCIAL ACTIVITES (like CONCERT GOING). OLDER HIPPIES are more orientated toward the PHILOSOPHICAL, MENTAL and SPIRITUAL ASPECTS of the HIPPY PHILOSOPHY, although some YOUNG HIPPIES are more advanced, and get into such DEEPER ASPECTS of the HIPPY PHILOSOPHY. YOUNG HIPPIES are more IDEALISTIC, and OLDER HIPPIES are more REALISTIC, but as always, there are exceptions to this rule!!!

DR. PHIL featured a TV PROGRAM, about how a TEENAGER'S BRAIN is different, from an ADULT'S BRAIN (and even had a plastic model of a TEENAGER'S BRAIN, to display to his audience, using it as a TEACHING TOOL). TEENAGERS have a dangerous BELIEF of being IMMORTAL, or HAVING NO FEAR, which can get them into MUCH trouble, mostly with FAST CARS, FAST WAVE-RUNNERS and DANGEROUS DRUG and SEX PRACTICES!!! I was a TEENAGER, once (who would occasionally engage in "death-defying" acts), so I am EMPATHETIC towards our TEENAGED YOUNG HIPPIES!!!

The 1970's were widely known as "THE PARTY DECADE". Many teenagers were DELICIOUSLY WASTED on many MIND-ALTERING SUBSTANCES. However, the HIPPY PHILOSOPHY "tapered-off" DRAMATICALLY, after the EARLY 70's. THE NEXT GENERATION of TEENAGERS came about, but were TOTALLY DIFFERENT in BELIEFS, PHILOSOPHIES and LIFE-STYLES. They were labeled by SOCIETY as "BURNOUTS", or sometimes as "METAL-HEADS".

MId-to-late 1970's TEENAGERS, who were known primarily as "BURNOUTS", were basically JUVENIEL DELINQUENTS, who used MASSIVE QUANITIES of MIND-ALTERING SUBSTANCES (especially ALCOHOL, POT, ACID and "PCP" (known more commonly as: ANGEL-DUST, ROCKET FUEL, CRYSTAL "T" - or "THC", HORSE TRANQUILIZER or "HOG"), PARTIED CONSTANTLY, FEARED NOTHING, THOUGHT THEMSELVES TO BE IMMORTAL (as many teens do), CHALLENGED THE LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENTS (and AUTHORITY in GENERAL) and listened to mainly HEAVY-METAL MUSIC (which had many SANTANIC and VIOLENT messages and THEMES).

Later 70's teens - "BURNOUTS" , also damaged many SCHOOL BUILDINGS. TEENAGED VANDALISM reached an all-time high!!! They were many times VIOLENT and ARGUMENTATIVE!!! I suspect that PCP (PHENCYCLIDINE), and ALOT of ALCOHOL, had ALOT to do with this!! My middle BROTHER was part of this GENERATION, so I know it well, from his experiences, plus I had to live through the later 1970's, as well!!

There are 2 EXCELLANT movies (CURRENTLY available on DVD), that depict the later 1970's TEENAGE GENERATION of "BURNOUTS" and "METAL-HEADS", they are:

1) OVER THE EDGE ...A real story of teenage rebellion (1979 - ORION PICTURES CORPORATION), DVD - Warner Home Video, UPC: 085393892920, STARRING: Matt Dillion, Michael Kramer, Pamela Ludwig, Vincent Spano, Tom Fergus, Andy Romano, Ellen Geer, Lane Smith and Harry Northrup, "Bored teens turn to sex, booze and violence in their planned Colorado community. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan." NEW GRENADA is the movie name for the planned Colorado community.

2) FOXES (THE CITY HAD IT COMING.) - (1980 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.), MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT, UPC: 2761688841, MGM 4005274, STARRING: Jodie Foster, Scott Baio, Cherie Curie (of "THE RUNAWAYS" - all girl rock band), Randy Quaid and Sally Kellerman, Directed by Adrian Lyne, "Jeanie (Foster) has alot to cope with. Her mom (Sally Kellerman) is divorced and desperate, her friends abuse drugs, and she has to deal with immature boys and "boring" North Hollywood High. Luckily, she's got rebel gal pals to party with till she drops! But when her best friend Annie (Cherie Currie) runs away from her abusive father, Jeanie has to grow up fast... or lose her friend forever."

Both of these MOVIES are EXTREMELY ACCURATE, as toward TEENAGED LIFE in the late 1970's!!! These TEENAGERS PARTIED alot, but WERE NOT VERY HIPPY-LIKE!!!! Almost the COMPLETE OPPOSITE, in PHILOSOPHY!!!

You YOUNG HIPPIES have to CARRY THE HIPPY GENERATION TORCH for us OLD HIPPIES, so GOOD LUCK TOWARDS THE FUTURE!!! YOUNG HIPPIES ARE REAL HIPPIES!!! (I'm COSMICDUST, and I APPROVE OF THIS MESSAGE, just like in those POLITICAL CAMPAIGNING TV ADS)!!!

"Don't EAT the BROWN antACID!!!" - WAVY GRAVY (www.wavygravy.net) "The WOODSTOCK CLOWN"

Peace, love and understanding . . .

 

I gotta think every generation had its version of the hippies, & how big they were depended mainly on demographics and how different they were from the mainstream at the time. The "hippies" of the '60s & early '70s were huge b/c they came primarily from the Boomers, & b/c they lived a lifestyle that was dramatically different from the mainstream of both their parents' generation & their own. The beatniks of the '50s were important, but not as huge b/c they came from a smaller generation & didn't have big conflicts like Vietnam to set them apart from the rest of society -- likewise the punks & others who followed the hippies.

Every generation's counterculture drew on ideas of older generations' countercultures, so there was never a bright line separating the beats from the hippies, for example. Some beats adopted a hippyish lifestyle as the '60s came & went, others didn't. Some hippies fell in love with punk, others turned into yuppies, others stayed hippies, & others went their own way.

But the image that a counterculture holds, both in its own time & historically, has everything to do with the dominant mainstream culture of the time. The split between hippy boomers & the right-wing of that time was huge, not only between hippies & their parents but between hippies & a huge part of the Boomer generation itself (remember that the same generation produced the hippies *&* people like Karl Rove).

Probably any generation's counterculture is as earnest & talented as any other's. The things that make the hippies stand out more than, say, the beats or the punks, has more to do with forces beyond anyone's control.

Course, I was born during the Ford administration, so wtf do I know?

 

my lover is a self-titled "prippy".... cross between prep (loves khakhi's and cords and comfy gap shirts) and hippy (buys all the preppy clothes from goodwill, and only washes them or himself... occasionally!). i am a self-defined flower child/hippie.... i wear dreads and i rarely buy anything new, i'm a veg, i'm new-agey spiritual, a polyamorous/non-monogomous/sexual fiend... i don't know what really makes someone a hippie, but i know that i have always felt more like i belonged in the 60's.... actually, i really think that i have some really strong subconscious memories of my most recent past life, and i feel more comfy as a hippie kinda flower child... kinda like when austin powers wakes up from having been cryofrozen for 30 years, and he still feels more comfortable wearing really hip clothes from the late 60s, and living that kind of lifestyle. maybe i was cryfrozen and just don't remember? it would be just like the government lol

 

Oh man, I feel that, nakedtreehugger. I remember back when I was at least 10, before I even understood or would have approved of drug use and free love, I'd read about the 60s and wish I were living then instead of now... a young hippie is someone who desperately wishes they were the same age they are now, but in the late 60s. What I wouldn't give to get on the bus and tootle the masses...

There is a style element, certainly, but it's not the most important aspect of being a young hippie. It's the spirit of the thing - the yearning for peace and love, and the striving towards mind expansion and different ways of perceiving the world. Which often lead to the tendencies towards vegetarianism, psychedelic drug use, new agey spirituality or attraction to Buddhism, polyamorous adventures...

 

*chuckles*

 

I dunno why but I never like to refer to myself as a hippie. I don't mind if other people call me a hippie, but I dunno I just never directly refer to myself as a hippe.

 

Yeah.. the Young Hippies forum got removed cause it filled up with useless crap. Which was kind of a shame, cause before then it was a pretty cool place.

 

you should call yerselves "bliss ninnies"

 

was renamed "the whiners", you know people who see problems and complain about them with out trying to change anything...whiners......