Hippies yesterday gave us plague rats today. Hippies yesterday gave us recycling away climate change to the third world today. Hippies yesterday gave us a neutered 1960s left and hellworld today. Disney adults for plants who want to feel good without challenging any actual privilege or doing actual analysis of the world.
man what if everything in the forest was an animist cartoon caricature that wants to teach me moral lessons. i bet native americans learned all sorts of lessons. maybe if i just dress up like my favourite native american character i can talk to the cartoon flowers about curing cancer.
I don't think many hippies exist any more as part of an actual social phenomenon. Anyone who intentionally adopts the dress and mannerisms is pining after decades past.
I think we just have a strong urge to disavow ourselves from an aesthetic we see as misfired, hypocritical, and corrupted to the right, which is fair, but the real story is more complicated. If you wanna claim they all went Q go for it, but I need more than anecdotes to believe they didn't just split in a ton of directions.
'Hardcore punk' can mean a wide variety of things. I'd say once the camo pants and mosh metal stuff came in hardcore became a pretty different thing than punk
The Yippies were called hippies when they were active lol. Distinguishing the political counterculture from the less explicitly political counterculture is a new thing.
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Hippies yesterday gave us plague rats today. Hippies yesterday gave us recycling away climate change to the third world today. Hippies yesterday gave us a neutered 1960s left and hellworld today. Disney adults for plants who want to feel good without challenging any actual privilege or doing actual analysis of the world.
man what if everything in the forest was an animist cartoon caricature that wants to teach me moral lessons. i bet native americans learned all sorts of lessons. maybe if i just dress up like my favourite native american character i can talk to the cartoon flowers about curing cancer.
I feel like we on the left don't spend enough time shitting on subcultures that aren't left enough.
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I don't think many hippies exist any more as part of an actual social phenomenon. Anyone who intentionally adopts the dress and mannerisms is pining after decades past.
I think we just have a strong urge to disavow ourselves from an aesthetic we see as misfired, hypocritical, and corrupted to the right, which is fair, but the real story is more complicated. If you wanna claim they all went Q go for it, but I need more than anecdotes to believe they didn't just split in a ton of directions.
Hence why they are so prone to reactionary shit.
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Uh, punks are the same for the most part. Nothing has really changed in punk since 1988
Hardcore punk and powerviolence scenes were big.
'Hardcore punk' can mean a wide variety of things. I'd say once the camo pants and mosh metal stuff came in hardcore became a pretty different thing than punk
I was thinking Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, maybe second incarnation of the misfits, etc. Idk the dates though, tbf.
Everyone hated the second misfits and those bands were at their peak around 1981
:I-was-saying: I liked the second misfits
Also that makes sense
lmfao
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The Yippies were called hippies when they were active lol. Distinguishing the political counterculture from the less explicitly political counterculture is a new thing.
oh yah I was agreeing with you yippies rock.