I thought that would get quick reply but that was really quick. I don't really follow the hippie ideology but I am interested in certain aspects of it and I enjoy checking out the forums every now and again. My favorites are actually the travel forums (not the package holiday type!) and I guess this has strong links with being a hippie. More recently I have become interested in self sufficiency, not that I would want to pursue it - just that it interests me as a way of life. I have always loved the music of Dylan and Floyd, though not the more recognised hippie music and recently become really interested in the Beat era and its poets and writers, though I don't actually like poetry. Maybe its just the hippie people that interest me, I have always admired and felt drawn to people that can show true conviction for something.
You are looing for yourslef, your identity, your purpose. All our lives we look for these things. You are drawn to hipies because there is something about them you need, I would say. I can't tell you what or why, but just be open to it and you will figure it out.
Life is inherently unsatisfactory due to the universal law of entropy. Entropy teaches us that any closed system eventually runs down, loses all its energy...thermodynamic heat death. So machines wear out, air goes out of baloons, civilizations decay and collapse, people grow old and die. The universal tendency towards dissipation and dispersal. However, in limited situations, negative entropy is possible. Within the boundry of his or her lifetime, the human is a neg-entropic machine. The human "imports" structure, order, information, and energy and "exports" entropy outside of itself. Without "imports" like food, the human dies. So the human life is a perpetual search for sources of energy to exploit, and all the attendent issues: shelter to remain while conserving energy in downtime (sleep); seeking mates to spread neg-entropy in the form of genetic information, and so on. So there is a constant need to "make" our lives by feeding ourselves an avoiding being eaten or used for our energy in some way by another organism. This is the primary reason for our searching. Our whole life is a search, a "doing." Once we stop doing and stop searching, entropy sets in and we cease to exist as beings. Not that this is so horrible -- in fact, its unavoidable due to the universal entropic pull (experienced as "death" by humans). But while we are here, we must "feed the fire" of life and are never allowed true rest.
