When Bush is gone, what will that do to the hippie movement?

Discussion in 'Hippies' started by newo, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    Let's think about it. The last eight years have really sucked with having President George W. Bozo in the white house, but it has fueled the hippie movement, reviving it a little. Not that it compares with the 60s, but it has given it new life. As the culture becomes increasingly corrupt the counterculture grows in numbers.

    After the new president is inaugurated, then what? Will the movement diminish as it did for the original hippies?

    If Barack Obama is elected we'll celebrate, but will a lot of people who are currently resisting the government then lighten up and settle contendedly into their middle class lives? Or will it initiate a further revival of the hippie spirit?

    As for McCain, I don't agree with people who say it would be like 4 more years of Bush, I believe McCain would be a better president than Bush has been, but that ain't saying shit. Would the counterculture continue under McCain? And if it did, would the enthusiasm level be the same?

    Just something I've been mulling over. What do you think?
     
  2. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    Why will you celebrate if obama is elected?

    Celebrate life every full moon

    and forget about the elections.

    That's just my advice . .
     
  3. drumminmama

    drumminmama Super Moderator Super Moderator

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    Well, there's a big stripe of the various counter to the culture movements who don't like Obama, either. (this is based off hanging in Denver through the convention and the associated happenings)
    So those folks will continue to work for justice (and therefore peace).
    For the people you mentioned, I'd say it depends on the war/withdrawal, if he really pursues nuclear energy, and if people really do get some health benefits.
     
  4. thehippie_08

    thehippie_08 that girl

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    dood, does anything stop the movement?

    the beat goes on, homes, the beat goes on.
     
  5. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    The beat might go on but the momentum rises and falls.
     
  6. Jedite83

    Jedite83 Members

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    Hippies were around before Bush and will be around after bush.
    As long as there is a war in Iraq or other injustice in the world hippies will be around to work to make the world a better place.
    Hippie is not a response tot eh rulers. It is a mentality, a different way of looking at teh world, and that will not go a way.
     
  7. ChildoftheRisingSun

    ChildoftheRisingSun Member

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    Better leader don't make the babylon go away
     
  8. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    newo is right. the hippie movement was first started by politics. can it go on with a competant president in the whitehouse? sure, but we'd have less to complain about . of course there is still the iraq war. im judging whether or not either mccain or obama will be good presidents on how they deal with that.
     
  9. newo

    newo Lifetime Supporter Lifetime Supporter

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    The original hippie movement did diminish in numbers greatly after the end of the Vietnam War and Nixon's resignation, but it never died since true hippies don't care whether or not being a hippie is trendy. The spirit is ever with us.

    I'm just wondering if we're going to see a repeat of the mid-70s when the counterculture became less counter and more culture. Oh well, as long as disco doesn't make a comeback I suppose I'll be just fine.
     
  10. hippiehillbilly

    hippiehillbilly the old asshole

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    theres a hippie movement in america?
     
  11. burnabowl

    burnabowl Dancing Tree

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    just a small correction: it was started by the post WWII generation gap. politics, 'nam, drugs only amplified an inevitable cultural youth resistance. Most teenagers rebel, but in the 60's they all did it simultaneously and it was an acute "us vs. them" feeling because of the gen gap. (well to be technical the hippies were preceded by the beatniks and the jazz ppl, and those grew out of something else and so on.)

    One enormous distinction I see between then and now is the internet. After the popular movement faded, ppl lacked cohesion and a sense of direction. But the internet allows anyone anywhere to stay connected. Kids seem to be getting smarter at a younger age and it might just be that info is freer and there's less censorship online, serving as a buffer to give perspective on parental and cultural programming. My point is I don't see the younger generations doing what the boomers did because with them it was either be as one publicly or not at all. But now the spirit doesn't need to be public and can propagate under the establishment's noses online, etc. The boomers didn't fail at anything I think they only lost faith in themselves and bought into unilateral media hype too much. just an opinion:cheers2:
     
  12. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    oo, my bad :)
     
  13. lilyflowerr

    lilyflowerr Member

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    i wonder the same thing newo
    hippies can still be around to stand for peace and love though

    obama winning would be a much better thing for the world
    even if the little hippie/anti-war movement we have going might die out a little
     
  14. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    thats what i think too, lily. but i do like that sarah palin. i wonder what she could help do for the country. of course she's working under mccain but it still means something to the movement to have a woman in the high ranks of politics.
     
  15. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    she's a creationist.
    a puppet.

    the high ranks of politics
    are the lowest of lowest ranks
    of human dignity

    do not be fooled.
     
  16. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    do you think so?
    i dont know what to think. i just knew that i felt a little comfort with a woman up there. but who knows if they arent all alien freemasons? haha
     
  17. stalk

    stalk Banned

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    It's not even funny.
    There is no more humor in these politics.
    Please dig deeper.

    That's exactly what they want you to think.
    It's sad.
     
  18. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    im pretty clueless when it comes to politics.

    i guess it doesnt even matter who wins.

    i think they are just thinking about their own benefits anyway.
     
  19. chuckf2000

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    I don't think the hippie movement has ever returned. Oh yes, there's a few of you here and there who call yourselves hippies but I think it's more of a fad now than in the 60s. In the 60s, we were tired of uncle sam telling us what we should do and shipping us off to die in a war we didn't believe in and we did something about it. We had massive demonstrations and people lost their lives. I haven't read anywhere of a hippy demonstration going on in DC to protest the war or anything.

    I think people now just want to get high and be around others of like mind. I'm not saying anything is wrong with that but I don't think georege bush deserves the credit for today's hippies.
     
  20. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    its the mindset of the people back then that people try to mirror in the present. whatever goes on in the world doesn't matter anyway, because people will die whether killed by war or not and there will never be a way to get people to stop hating. i just think the hippies are different now than they were in the 60s but they are still hippies nonetheless. and i dont think every one of us just wants to get high and call ourselves hippies. i dont even care for the label. its a fad for some, but not all of us.
     

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