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January 10, 2007

everybody hates hippies

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1. kelsey says:

   January 10, 2007 at 8:35 PM

   so true… they really smell bad.
2. Holly says:

   January 11, 2007 at 12:48 AM

   Is it because they don’t go for that mar­ke­ting stuff?
3. hugh macleod says:

   January 11, 2007 at 7:29 AM

   “Hip­pies don’t go for mar­ke­ting stuff”? In you dreams
4. John says:

   January 12, 2007 at 8:27 AM

   It’s kinda sad, really.
   You read things like The Elec­tric Kool-Aid Acid Test and such and you rea­lize that hip­pies (like beat­niks before them) sca­red the living fuck out of peo­ple until they expan­ded from a group of vocal and highly poli­ti­cal artists and wri­ters to a bunch of angsty sto­ner kids not wan­ting to go to Viet­nam. The whole thing finally paro­died itself and now you buy your Bir­kens­tocks and Volks­wa­gen van down at the Gap. I’m sure you’re fami­liar.
   When you can buy Happy Hip­pie Patchouli Stink down at the cor­ner store, sud­denly your image goes from “visio­nary” and “revo­lu­tio­nary” to “half baked com­mu­nism from a fully baked greasy fart.“
   It’s a good story to learn from. Anything can go from under­ground craze to serious threat to sad joke. I’m sure you can find some­body who wor­ked for a fai­led dot­com circa 2000 and they’ll be happy to con­cur. In the end, all you can do is be sure to main­tain some perspective.
5. Jem Stone says:

   January 12, 2007 at 10:26 AM

   hang on a minute hugh aren’t you about to ape ken kesey and the merry pranks­ters and tra­vel around the country on a “love bus” giving away LSD, sorry, stormhoek ?
6. hugh macleod says:

   January 12, 2007 at 11:31 AM

   Yes, Jem, and every­body will then hate me, as well
7. oliver Franks says:

   January 12, 2007 at 12:26 PM

   ‘Boo!’ said the Hippy and promptly tur­ned into a CEO. His son works at Ikea and refu­ses to tidy his bedroom, which his Mother refu­ses to go into.
   Meanwhile their daugh­ter tunes the radio from the situa­tion in the middle east to the sounds of DJ Wally remi­xing the ballads of Bob Dylan.
   Dad, tired of con­su­ming news on his PC, lis­tens to Ame­ri­can Pie, chan­ging the words for his amu­se­ment. “And in the streets, the chil­dren screa­med, the lovers cried and the blog­gers blog­ged.” Does he remem­ber being a hippy? Pro­bably not. Does anyone?
   What makes a Hippy? Is it the clothes? The smell? The poli­tics? Are there any real Hip­pies left? Are there any real Hip­pies right? How many Hip­pies became libe­rals, and how many neo-cons? How many became Mus­lims? Was it just Cat Ste­vens?
   Do Hip­pies have casual sex, or a lot of for­mal sex?
   Dad hadn’t had sex in 6 months. But his job with the civil ser­vice almost put fore­bea­rance in the terms. Mum didn’t mind, she had the memo­ries of her rebe­llious youth to main­tain her through the drought. Although modern por­no­graphy would pro­bably make her faint.
   Daugh­ter had an eating disor­der to occupy her, and Son just wan­ted to do all the drugs all the time. And he did. From ecs­tasy at the fair to LSD at the 9 hour Dos­to­yevsky marathon play by the Mos­cow Arts Thea­tre. It was all the sen­sa­tions, always.
   Dad flic­ked the news stream back on, and tut­ted at the half baked whin­ging short sigh­ted libe­rals trying to save the world in a week. Then he went wide eyed with ama­ze­ment at the neo-cons negli­gence, supe­rio­rity and belli­ge­rence. He’d have to redraft that bill. There must be a third way.
   When he thought about it, he saw they all loved each other. Not in a Hippy way, but in the real way. The way when you don’t need to say or do anything. Was that the third way…? Perhaps the bill…
8. frank says:

   January 13, 2007 at 6:47 PM

   What do hip­pies stand for that is so awful?
   They prio­ri­tize being human over being a con­su­mer.
   They prio­ri­tize peo­ple and rela­tionships over cool­ness.
   They try to walk lightly on the earth and not cause more des­truc­tion than neces­sary.
   They favor natu­ral pro­ducts over super-size, super pac­ka­ged, super-marketed pie­ces of landfill-destined crap.
   They pro­vide a handy out­let for peo­ple who feel the need to put someone else down as a way to feel bet­ter about them­sel­ves.
   They love you any­way, man.
   Learn well from the hip­pies. In your heart you know you are one too.
9. hugh macleod says:

   January 14, 2007 at 3:30 AM

   If they’re so won­der­ful, then why aren’t you a hip­pie your­self, Frank?
   Or maybe you are. If so, Con­grats! You just spent the last wee while prai­sing your­self to the skies
10. AllenReloaded says:

    January 26, 2007 at 5:49 PM

    “They prio­ri­tize being human over being a con­su­mer. They prio­ri­tize peo­ple and rela­tionships over cool­ness.“
    Amen! This hip­pie couldn’t agree more — I’m trying to pass this on to my chil­dren too. But I’m don’t want to be, anyone’s “handy out­let” for nega­tive energy — that’s where this hip­pie draws the line
11. Vova Korrt says:

    July 12, 2007 at 9:47 AM

    HAHAHA,joke no more