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Go ahead, name your movement. Name something good and positive and pro-environment and eco-friendly that's happening right now in the newly "greening" America and don't say more guns in Texas or fewer reproductive choices for women or endless vile unwinnable BushCo wars in the Middle East lasting until roughly 2075 because that would defe

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Webreader
May 3, 2007, 12:20 p.m.
This is dreadful {Grate!} that no one has responded to this wonderful article by now. "Hippies" have not disappeared. When that late band, for which so many including me were so "grateful" toured up until just a few years ago, man/woman did they appear!! All ages. And what good feelings {:)} one picked up from this "parade!" They are also out there for things other than music. Serious solar, wind and water power, low watt light bulbs, playpumps in Africa. "Who Killed the Electric Car" (the movie) We we're/are right. Even my 19th century born grandparents grew their own food, though they wouldn't have cottened to the 'free' sex, and drugs or rock music. "Gimme an 'F'!; Gimmie 'I'!" etc. (or the other version) {:)}
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samsara15
May 3, 2007, 2:37 p.m.
I always was fond of the hippies, but by the time they came along, I was working for stodgy corporations. I miss them.
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miklkit
May 3, 2007, 6:21 p.m.
What do you mean by "were" right. What if the gave a war, and nobody came?
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droid3913
May 3, 2007, 6:32 p.m.
As my avatar would say, "I hate hippies. They pi$$ me off!" Hippies are, in my oppinion, the down fall of our great nation. Eric Cartmen is right. "Hippies suck!"
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rickcb
May 3, 2007, 6:49 p.m.
Tune in, turn on, and drop out! (Of course I personally wouldn't know anything about that. )
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mark-stevens
May 3, 2007, 6:58 p.m.
What was a hippie? the many that I knew were just trying to mimic fashion statements set by musicians.
Were they against the war, Blue Cheer who were way a head of just about everybody in having really long hair, are credited for having invented heavy metal music or maybe punk music. Blue Cheer supported the Nam war... they didn't serve, but they did tell their listeners to back Johnson.
I knew drug dealers that had military hair cuts, nobody would suspect them!
I knew a young woman war protestor that went to California to do porn. The "hippies" that I met in San Franscio were in general, arrogant jerks.
Arlo Gutherie a famous folk singer got busted for dumping a couple of tons of garbage along side the highway. I think that era is more myth than facts!!!
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huzone
May 3, 2007, 7:53 p.m.
Great article. I was born in 1943 so I am a war baby, beatnik. I was in the bay area in the early '60s, lived in Bezerkly then Big Sur. Went through it all, still cling to the best values as outlined in this well written piece.
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spiralthrough
May 3, 2007, 8:55 p.m.
I agreed with most of it up to this point: 'And oh yes, speaking of good ol' MDMA (Ecstasy), even drug culture is getting some new respect. Staid old Time mag just ran a rather snide little story about the new studies being conducted by Harvard and the National Institute of Mental Health into the astonishing psychospiritual benefits of goodly entheogens such as LSD, psilocybin and MDMA.'
Anyone else ever see that documentary (on Mtv) of the ex-honor student/ex-ecstasy addict who had an MRI done which revealed a patchwork of holes in her brain?
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aceofspades1
May 3, 2007, 9:49 p.m.
Hippies are gone? whoa I musta been outa town
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KYRed
May 3, 2007, 11:15 p.m.
Hippies. Heh heh heh.
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freeky-d
May 3, 2007, 11:15 p.m.
The ignorant always hate what they can't understand.That includes hippies.BTW,arlo didn't get busted for dumping tons of garbage,moron.Maybe you should have listened to the WHOLE song,not just the parts that your feeble mind could comprehend.This is one example of someone who would definitely fail the acid test.
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mark-stevens
May 4, 2007, 12:04 a.m.
Hey "spaced cowboy" did you ever go to the Fillmore and see unknowns, like Its a Beautiful day, Cold Blood, Stooges?
Hang out back stage with Jerry Garcia, or Joe McDonald? Did you know that Hendrix and Mcdonald were Nam vets?
Let me guess, ya sat out front, stoned, playing air guitar or pretending to drum. Oh boy, I look like a musician and I"m really stoned. I must be a hippie!!
As far as "whatever happened to Arlo," you're right, I didn't listen to all of that self-indulgent piece of work. I do know that he was arrested and put in jail over dumping a half ton of garbage, Ask officer Obie. I guess according to you getting busted in "hippie talk" must include DRUGS... cool.
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mark-stevens
May 4, 2007, 12:15 a.m.
Nice comment abot "the acid test' another hippie bit of humor double entendre. How cool acid was? a High School All Ameican athlete bought some Orange Sunshine (acid) from my neighbor. Oh he got real high, he was commited to a mental institution, by the time he came down, his future was gone with that high!!
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rickcb
May 4, 2007, 12:33 a.m.
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
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aceofspades1
May 4, 2007, 12:57 a.m.
high school all Americans usually don't need drugs to be commitable
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mark-stevens
May 4, 2007, 1:26 a.m.
Do you know of any that would fit the "should be, or should have been commited?"
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MetalNun
May 4, 2007, 2:50 a.m.
Great article. Of course cynicism would suggest that the hippie ideals have in fact been co-opted by the corporations for a profit. But I guess that's ok if it is contributing to a greener planet and making those ideals more widely accepted.
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puffin
May 4, 2007, 3:04 a.m.
Sometime in the 60's, my father and his best friend changed their names to Starchild and ManWoman (respectively) - I also was named adequately for a hippie's child, Lol. My mother knew Jerry Garcia personally, met and knew Tommy Chong while just in high school and spent time with Jimi Hendrix at his place in Hawaii before he died ( in ref. to the few names people have brought up).
Hippies have evolved out of necessity - the global village.
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mark-stevens
May 4, 2007, 4:41 a.m.
That makse more time line sense. I thought I was slipping. I have a friend that is a world noted rock historian. He is always keeping me on my toes. Jimi's death?? Ya ought to look up the guy that owned Jimi, Michael Jeffery. rumored to had CIA ties, mob, laundreing millions over seas, "allegedly" killed in an aiplane collision over Spain.