Comments on: The battle is over and the hippies won http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:23:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Joe Hartley http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/comment-page-1/#comment-137756 Joe Hartley Wed, 16 May 2007 14:36:27 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/#comment-137756 NOTHING is unalterable, Bob! Even in the pliable US.... NOTHING is unalterable, Bob! Even in the pliable US….

]]> By: Bob Morris http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/comment-page-1/#comment-137632 Bob Morris Wed, 16 May 2007 03:17:14 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/#comment-137632 Hooterites? Great name. Who were they? Sure, it was a continuum, lots of things led up to it, but the explosion of culture and politics that happened in the 60's changed the culture inalterably. Hooterites? Great name. Who were they?

Sure, it was a continuum, lots of things led up to it, but the explosion of culture and politics that happened in the 60’s changed the culture inalterably.

]]> By: DJ http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/comment-page-1/#comment-137601 DJ Wed, 16 May 2007 00:39:25 +0000 http://polizeros.com/2007/05/15/the-battle-is-over-and-the-hippies-won/#comment-137601 I think hippies may be getting just a bit to much credit here. Certainly they popularized (or repopularized) many of these ideas. But the first hybrid automobile was patented in 1905. Minority religious sects like the Amish and Mennonites have been practicing many of these ideals for centuries. The Hooterites and other religious groups lived in communes long before it was cool (many still do). And the Beatniks were already at it before hippies ever appeared on the scene. As for marijuana, it was smoked everywhere before some yo-yo got a wild hair up his ah, nose and decided it was wrong around 1937. (FDR was the one who made it illegal. Thanks, liberals!) That's only one generation that it was out of favor, man! Yes, I have a little resentment: I was too young to be a hippy, and didn't even discover the psychadelic music scene until after Janis, Jim, and Jimmy were long gone... I think hippies may be getting just a bit to much credit here. Certainly they popularized (or repopularized) many of these ideas. But the first hybrid automobile was patented in 1905. Minority religious sects like the Amish and Mennonites have been practicing many of these ideals for centuries. The Hooterites and other religious groups lived in communes long before it was cool (many still do). And the Beatniks were already at it before hippies ever appeared on the scene.

As for marijuana, it was smoked everywhere before some yo-yo got a wild hair up his ah, nose and decided it was wrong around 1937. (FDR was the one who made it illegal. Thanks, liberals!) That’s only one generation that it was out of favor, man!

Yes, I have a little resentment: I was too young to be a hippy, and didn’t even discover the psychadelic music scene until after Janis, Jim, and Jimmy were long gone…

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