hippies

bijapuri

this is a spinoff comment from the dad hunter thread.
I just gotta get this off my chest:

I'm still amazed that this meme called "Hippy" continues to replicate. In 1967, a funeral was held in Hippy's home town- SFO. complete with casket. Everything since has been something else.

That includes absolutely everyone who ever dropped acid in Goa back in the day- me included- a disparate group, everything from psychopathic predators to ingenues re-assembling each year with a new cast of characters, vaguely connected to . . . that's a meme for ya.

You can pretend otherwise, but I was there, and mebbe it's just me, but in the end, it was all about havin fun. Too bad so many are freakin dead before their time. Not fun for them now, maalum?

out out, brief candle.

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PeakXV

I thought it was the media who coined the term 'hippie'(not the hippies themselves) to describe the movement/people that moved into San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district in the 60's. If the media didn't hang a moniker on them at that point..... they might have been for ever referred to as neo-beatniks or something. Had the term been used before in passing or thought of being used at some point previously - quite possibly. I guess from that point onwards, the term (whether spelt hippie or hippy) was more or less a 'free agent' & other media and citizens around the world now had a vision & sterotype of what a hippie might look or act like. So did the hippie completely die in 1967 or was it just in it's infancy - being born and then reborn through the Summer of Love, Woodstock, Revolution, Freak Street, Goa and even today on IM when you read reports like Wazen's adventure?

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capt_mahajan

We used to see these big buses with drawn curtains parked near Janpath, sometimes, in Delhi. I was perhaps 10, and I used to be fascinated by the folk who came overland from god knows where. I didnt know anybody who travelled abroad too much (big novelty, then), we had fiat cars and ambassadors in India and not much more- the Standard Herald?- and the idea of what the 'hippies' were doing was very appealing.

Maybe I was born a little too late, or maybe there weren't too many Indian hippies then (or now)

Few years later, going to Goa every month or two, met a few of them. Usually far more interesting and far more independent in thought than the usual lemmings.

Stopped meeting them after I got the impression some of them thought I wanted to make money off them. (Aside, I took my father to Colva around 1975 to meet some of my friends, and got a big lecture at home later )

Whatever, I still maintain that every generation needs rebels in its young. The 'hippies' (whatever that means) were that. Some Indians were that too.

Later, we compromised. Some a little, some a lot.

By the way, where are the rebels today's young generation?

Nick-H

...doing MBAs and learning management bullshit .

Sad, isn't it.

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ananda2193

Shows you how much the 60's really impacted the world.

All the icons of that era sold out long ago!

wonderwomanusa

Don't most children do (or want to do) the direct opposite of their parents? The son of one of the guitar players from one of those 60s bands (no, I won't name him or the band) has changed his name, and wants to be an accountant. <sigh>

capt_mahajan

I think the 60's impacted the world all right.

What happens is, I think, that from wanting to change the world, people get tired and just want to change their corner of it.

That's good, too.

jyotirmoy

Well, after my cigarette's been smoked up,
After all my liquor's been drunk,
After my dreams are dreamed out,
After all my thoughts have been thunk,
Well, after I do some of these things,
I'm gonna do what I have to do.
And I tell you on the side, that you better run and hide
'Cause angel, I'll spill the beans to you.


Yes tons of beans waiting to be spilled......

capt_mahajan

Dylan on Monday morning

jyotirmoy

Noy unusual for an ageing hippie, ain't it dear Capt?

Gametotravel

Neither is "Hippie" a bad word for many nor is "adda"!

Canada Paul

I was there too. And when I stop and think about it, and actually remember it, it really was all about the party, just smokin' hash and droppin' acid and havin' fun. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Nick-H

There's an awful lot of hippie stuff on the board at the moment.

I wonder if Nadreg should put some mothballs in the server ...or something?

edwardseco

But, retiring comfortably well off..

machadinha

Oh, they're around alright. Think of them next time the papers write of some anti-globalist autonomist good-for-nothing quasi-hooligan protesters & the usual assortment of generally deranged layabout hedonist scumbags

I don't think all that much has changed, in terms of that movement dying out, no matter what name is stuck on to it. Seems to me it continues rather in its many guises and manifestations. And true, by the time it's been labeled and neatly boxed & shelved, it's time to move on to the next appearance. As it always does.

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