If you weren't there, you're just a neo-hippie

And even a lot of the people who were there are what they call yippies.

Don't take it personally oldheads. i dig your scene, I respect what yall were about back in the day and those who are still about it today.

but if you were born in 1992, watch dazed and confused all the time, smoke weed, and buy your clothes at habitat or some other hemp and incense shithole... you're a neo-hippie. In scenes I roll with we call yall swaggar jaggers.

There was a movment in their generation. Our generation and ones after it are too opiated and gutless do do anything about anything.

OG Hippies contributed so much to our modern-day culture. But you don't.

I still love you all though.

 

how can you say that brah? how do you know everyone and their actions based on other actions which you've generalized...? all labels are arbitrary and ultimately useless and false breh... there are only beautiful human beings doing beautiful things... call yourself what you will I spose...

 

I'm whatever you say dog.

 

I'm not really trying to judge a whole broad group of people (lie) but I'm just saying whenever I see one of these neo-hippie kids these days all they are is just another fucking tool shrouded in hemp jackets and liberal pretention. Actually, no. the liberal pretention is only in the most hopeful cases of humanity. generally there the same group of people as any other set of dicks with different clothing.

 

^ my big thing is the neo-hippies that don't wash themselves.

I have a thread going about it, where I say basically the same thing, but even ancestors of man bathed in rivers.

 

my big thing is the undeniable individuality of all individuals

I feel you in some ways though,, in that there are definitely people who claim to follow certain principles but do not live in this way...

then again, what do you do which is so fantastic beyond these people, Sam?? how do you put your blood, sweat, and tears into making a real difference in the world or even your little community?

 

I'm a neo-hippie. And I wash myself.
I also do a lot to try and make the world better.

 

Show kindness to people I know. I don't really do that much honestly. I am the scene-less guy who will hang out with gangsta's one day and metal-heads the next and coffee shop liberals the next. I suppose I'm mostly just a dipshit.

 

And honest.

Why does one have to go about trying to better the world in order to be validated as a worth while human being? God forbid someone go through life at their own pace not trying to make a difference and be rewarded for it with pats on the back and community service hours to put on a resume.

The thought counts when someone is into community clean up, recycling, and whatever else, but seriously, those are small, insignificant things that will never really amount to anything more than small personal victories. That doesn't mean one shouldn't bother doing them. But don't think those who do are any more credible than those who don't. We all live here.

 

someone rep this man for always speaking the truth!!

 

I fucking hate dazed and confused. They weren't hippies, they were just assholes that thought they were better because they thought they were up on some higher plane of consciousness because they saw terrible things happen in the world. Oooooh we're so cool we don't play the game!
Well, you can't truly understand what people are going through until you play the game, and if no one is taking your message seriously, then you're not going to reach anyone. You can speak all the truth in the world, but no one will hear you, and then what have you got? Your little commune in the woods where you withdraw from the evils of society? Who does that help? No one. If that's what it means to be a hippie, I want no part of it.
I consider myself one because I give a shit and do what I can to educate and help when it's possible for me, but I'm not about to sacrifice my whole livelihood for activism and fitting in with an idealism and totally fuck myself over in the process. Life's too short to spend it lost in another dimension or in prison or following a cult that tells me where to shop and how to dress. Do what your heart tells you is right. That's what I've always thought it was about, but of course it was something different to everyone, and that's the basic message my former hippie mother handed down to me (yes, she was indeed the real thing back in the 60's).

 

It's the thought that counts, so ya.

 

lol, my mom was a hippie too.

My aunt even lived in a commune. There is a general 'don't mention it, it's too weird' vibe going on with her though. Kinda creepy. I don't ask about her past. lol

But my mom's cool

 

i agree. i'm a huge hippy girl, born in 1989. but i don't go out of my way to wear tie-dye, pachouli, or hemp. I'm just incredibly average... it's my actions and thoughts that make me a hippy.. not my clothes

 

did you just call yourself a hippie? LOL!!!

 

Yeah, weird shit goes down in the communes. I considered it briefly, but decided against it because there's no order, and I don't believe in Utopia. Anyone can come in and say anything and they'll let them in to do whatever they want and then disappear forever. Since everything belongs to the commune, nothing is ever really yours, and there's no sense of anything other than existing and floating through life. Sorry, I'm beyond that stage. I'd like to actually do something now. Maybe it's just an illusion, but it would make me feel better.

 

...Well, maybe not in the traditional sense, but I think I have the core values down...
I bathe and wear clothes from Walmart. Think that makes me a sell-out? I bet you use the word "sheeple" in casual conversation, too.

 

I buy clothes at walmart. It's fucking cheep, man.

 

I'm not questioning your integrity, I couldn't care less what people choose to call themselves, however this part caught my eye.

"but I think I have the core values down"

"I bathe and wear clothes from Walmart"

I would that think some of the core values of a "hippie" would be to not contribute to a horrible corporate machine company that's extremely exploitive to other poor human beings in other countries.

I'm not insinuating you are or are not anything. I just thought I'd point that out.

 

I didn't mean to come off as defensive toward you. I may have gotten a little bit prickly when jmt waved the label in my face, but it definitely wasn't directed at you. I wouldn't at all call myself an old-school hippie- moreso an offshoot (maybe neo-hippie like Sam suggested?), but certainly not a yuppie or yippie (my fiance might fall into that category, sadly enough).
On the Walmart subject, I get what you're saying and I agree with you, but if I can't afford anything else at this juncture of my life, should I shell out the big bucks for organic cotton made in the USA by native shamen pants and shirt, of which I can only maybe afford two outfits per cold/warm weather season, or do I get a normal amount of clothing from Walmart until I can actually afford to choose ethically? I'm a poor college student. Right now, my life is about education, both the shit they're cramming in my head so I can get my degree and other more important things I've exposed myself to in the name of personal growth, and if I stubbornly refuse to partake in some things now just because I don't agree with the way they came about, then I will continue to limit my choices down the road. When I have the money to choose ethically, I will. In the meantime, I strive to be aware of what I am doing and what I am supporting. Just soaking it up like a sponge.
Bottom line, though, it's about actually having the choice. You run into this with vegans and vegetarians all the time. When you're starving in the desert, you can't feel guilty about eating that lizard when there's no tofu around. You don't have a choice, unless you choose to starve hoping you'll find an oasis with some twigs and berries, but I find that incredibly self-defeating.