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The environmental movement???? You've got to be kidding. Look at the trash the hippies left at their famous Woodstock concert.
The real environmental movement was Republican all the way, Theodore Roosevelt set aside wilderness areas and national parks to protect something of our nature and wilderness regions. It was Conservatives that wanted to conserve something of big open natual space.
The liberals with their open borders mentality want to bring all the world's excess population into the US and pay them welfare handouts to encourage irresponsible breeding. There's only about 2 billion more impoverished to go, we have to invite them in with promises of amnesty.
I knew more than a few hippies. Real, live, Laurel Canyon, San Francisco, tune in, turn on, drop out hippies. Not one of them was trust fund baby. All of them were from middle/working class families. A lot of them regret their drug use. More than a few are now Republicans.
I have read several biographies of George Harrison. All of them say that he went to The Height in The Summer of Love and was disgusted by the hippies because they smelled. I hought that was interesting.
It's not for nothing that Woodstock remains a legendary event.
“If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
- winston churchill
i love this quote. but....... not to be taken absolute literally ( imo ). i think winnie was making a point for the need of balance in ideas. the passion and idealism of youth versus the experience and jaded opinion of middle-age.
i think of Woodstock as a "divine accident" ( i also consider the original punk as such ). things that had to happen in their time because they needed to happen.
I have read several biographies of George Harrison. All of them say that he went to The Height in The Summer of Love and was disgusted by the hippies because they smelled. I hought that was interesting.
That is because he thought he was going to come across enlightened people doing positive things. To use his own words "It was like the Bowery, all the drunk and down-and-outs and these little spotty schoolkids who'd dropped out".
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Do you have any statistic to back it up?
The hippies were against discrimination based on race, sex, and ethnic origin.
Some people do regard discrimination as a good thing.
Statistics.......I dont have no statistics......I dont need to show you no sticking statistics!! Please, they didnt like showers either ......Some people do regard showers as a good thing.
"Hippies" wasn't a political party and didn't have a unified platform of what they were for/against. More of a fashion statement in most cases.
There were a lot of people who dressed like hippies but weren't. But there was definitely a mind set, a way of life, a philosophy that true hippies shared.
Anybody else flashing on Goldie from the old Smothers Brothers show?
(If you're thinking "Hawn" you do not get to pass Go.")
There were a lot of people who dressed like hippies but weren't. But there was definitely a mind set, a way of life, a philosophy that true hippies shared.
Anybody else flashing on Goldie from the old Smothers Brothers show?
(If you're thinking "Hawn" you do not get to pass Go.")
Just thinking about her makes me smile. Fourty year old memory. I think I'll have a cup of tea.
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