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One of the interesting "hippy" spin-offs as a sub-sub-culture was the "back to the land" folks. They managed to acquire some capital or otherwise managed to get some land and started truck farms or did some subsistence farming if they were isolated enough. Anything "natural" was better than anything processed of packaged. Some of you might remember Euel Gibbons (1911-1975) who advocated eating wild plants and natural food like wild Hickory nuts. Some of these natural farmer folk are still at it. You might go pick apples at their orchards or do u-pick strawberries. Some started vineyards and produce wine.
They were positively not going to follow in their parent's footsteps ... they were nonconformist and in today's cancel culture, they'd be canceled and that would be alright by them.
Going from the Victorian Era straight to the Roaring 20's was a bigger jump.
I'm 61 -- a little young for the hippie movement. We lived in Bermuda in the 60's and there weren't a bunch of hippies.
Don't you think there are 'varying' degrees of hippies....lol.
Some were fashionable hippies and could have been trust account kiddies. Some were not, worked, etc.
I would say the hippies did bring the drug culture to the 'mainstream'.
As for the drugs being better back then. Have you tried today's weed?
I never thought of hippies as being the environmentalists.
Wasn't that the 'granola' crowd...not necessarily hippies -- some hippy like tendencies but not hippies.
If you were a teen hippie you were probably mimicking the fashion, trends...if you were a 25 year old hippy that's different right?
It's not your grandma's weed. I've hit dispensaries in Washington, Oregon, and Colorado, and smoked some a friend of in Tucson got with his medical card.
Haven't been disappointed yet. The current stuff is a long way from the kilo bricks of Mexican a buddy of mine used to smuggle across the border into California.
I believe you're confusing them with the homeless.
I was part of the hippie scene, we bathed and showered; but your posted ignorance is ... ummmm, interesting, albeit wrong.
Many of the most radical of my loose group are now Republicans living in the south.
Now that is scarey.
BTW, I'm sitting here in my Birkenstocks.
My generation had the last of the good and safe sex, drugs & rock 'n roll.
"Tax the rich, feed the poor........."
"Til there are no rich no more......."
A beautiful, naive hippie dippy philosophy.
Really sounds deep and profoundly meaningful after your fourth bong hit and three hours into that hit of purple microdot.
Until you grow up and make a little money....
Then you realize that that when you over tax the rich.....they move, or find other ways of avoiding paying unreasonable amounts of taxation..... usually by passing it downhill.
Which means that you have to change the definition of "rich" to keep the tax flow going and all of a sudden you find out that you don't have to be "rich" to be on the Left's menu.
Really sounds deep and profoundly meaningful after your fourth bong hit and three hours into that hit of purple microdot.
Until you grow up and make a little money....
Then you realize that that when you over tax the rich.....they move, or find other ways of avoiding paying unreasonable amounts of taxation..... usually by passing it downhill.
We have rich and we have parisitic rich. The parasites are welcome to leave. The notion that the rich, as a group, gives back or that trickle-down actually works is a pipe dream, or your own bong dream.
Which means that you have to change the definition of "rich" to keep the tax flow going and all of a sudden you find out that you don't have to be "rich" to be on the Left's menu.
What are you smokin'? The recent tax breaks are a great example of how things work...not well for most of us. "The wealth of 643 of US' richest billionaires rose from $2.95 trillion to $3.8 trillion between March 18 and September 15," -- the Institute for Policy Studies and Americans for Tax Fairness said. Corporate tax breaks resulted in a huge buy-back of stock, not job expansion or creation.
They were positively not going to follow in their parent's footsteps ... they were nonconformist and in today's cancel culture, they'd be canceled and that would be alright by them.
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Originally Posted by Mr. Joshua
Going from the Victorian Era straight to the Roaring 20's was a bigger jump.
Maybe so ... but the kids weren't bucking the system. Kids believed in the government, because that is what they were taught. The blinders came off in the 60s as they saw what they were led to believe was all a lie. College campuses across the u.s. were never the same after the movement against conformity ... maybe so else where too, I'm sure.
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