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Judging by this thread, it appears "hipster" has become synonymous with "young person".
Yea, pretty much. In fact, that is exactly it. A youngster that follows the herd. The labels don't matter today....this generation are a bunch of vaginas.
Hipsters are often looked at as counter productive in today's society and often live in lifestyle that's contradicting to their ideology/world view. Is that how hippies were seen as in the 60s and 70s?
yes I come from that time
we were called freaks, shoot we called out selves that
we were treated pretty rotten my husband was a musician with long hair and that right off the bat was enough
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yes I come from that time
we were called freaks, shoot we called out selves that
we were treated pretty rotten my husband was a musician with long hair and that right off the bat was enough
Hell, I couldn't get a job picking up garbage in 1969 St Petersburg FL because I wouldn't shave my sideburns!
I think the Hippies were looked at pretty much the same way by the society of that time, which was looked down on. They were quite different from modern Hipsters, however, in that they actually believed in something and really thought they could change the world. Ideas can die cruel deaths.
Have you EVER listened to 10 seconds worth of anti war music from the 60s, especially people like Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, etc.? The 60s and early 70s were all about music, and a good chunk of it addressed the political topics of the day. Why would you think that music had less power then than it does now?
This one's a classic: Country Joe and the Fish, "Fixen to Die Rag"
People back then had to go to libraries to get videos, YouTube didn't exist neither did the internet.....we didn't even have phones to download music to! A lot of people were not tuning in or dropping out. I grew up in California at this time and hippies didn't have the best reputation.....heck most people hung with them for their drugs not their message.
Hipsters are often looked at as counter productive in today's society and often live in lifestyle that's contradicting to their ideology/world view. Is that how hippies were seen as in the 60s and 70s?
Hipsters hang out at Starbucks and hand-wring over stuff they read in Rolling Stone and Salon.com.
Like em or not, hippies were the last generation that acted on social injustice, not just sit round and pseudo-intellectualize about it. Im shocked at how apathetic younger people are on the social issues that affect them.
Hippies/Yippies took to the streets and get locked/beat up over our convictions.
Todays kids start an on-line petition.
There is no comparison. If that same passion for whats right didnt die with the 80's gen, we might not have had all these fake oil wars and other gov/social inequities we're suffering currently.
I think the Hippies were looked at pretty much the same way by the society of that time, which was looked down on. They were quite different from modern Hipsters, however, in that they actually believed in something and really thought they could change the world. Ideas can die cruel deaths.
The protests of the 60s and early 70s did change the world--they just didn't create the "utopia" that people thought they could create. Good things came out of it though, like the civil rights movements for minorities, the push for women's rights and equal pay, the birth of the environmental movement, and our willingness as a country to question authority and our leaders. My parents are from the WWII generation, and the idea of questioning the government was completely foreign to them.
Someone please explain how hippies can turn into yuppies?
I always thought it was yuppies who turned into hippies! I think yuppies had more money, hippies had the van and drugs! The hippies I hung out with for 2 summers in Northern CA all smoked pot that was the only drug, if you call it that, that they did. There was plenty to go around.......lots of sex going on "free love"
It was about hanging out, not working and sticking it to the man. Some hippies were out to change the world and others really weren't pushing the political agenda.
Hippies did have politics anti-war, where does hipsters stand with politics......I don't see many young people out to change things the way the youth did in the 70's.
The 70's were anti-government people didn't find "LOVE" for the President the way the youth as fallen for President Obama..........now government is the answer.
Hipsters hang out at Starbucks and hand-wring over stuff they read in Rolling Stone and Salon.com.
Like em or not, hippies were the last generation that acted on social injustice, not just sit round and pseudo-intellectualize about it. Im shocked at how apathetic younger people are on the social issues that affect them.
Hippies/Yippies took to the streets and get locked/beat up over our convictions.
Todays kids start an on-line petition.
There is no comparison. If that same passion for whats right didnt die with the 80's gen, we might not have had all these fake oil wars and other gov/social inequities we're suffering currently.
Uhhhhhhh, young people were out protesting-living on Wall Street and in cities around the globe for Months.
Your generation (born in 59?) chose to follow the Corporate Media script of division and villified these protesters as they were beaten and pepper sprayed by our militarized police forces.
Wars for Capitalism have been going on for decades-that is nothing new in the good ol US of A. Income inequality has been a gradual and persistent phenomenon but intensified under Dubya. Millenials were all younger than 18 years old when he was elected.
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