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You use the term "hippie" as if it weren't a real word.
According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a hippie is: A person who opposes and rejects many of the conventional standards and customs of society, especially one who advocates extreme liberalism in sociopolitical attitudes and lifestyles.
Now as goes along with every single word in every single language, each has its own unique connotataion and denotation of various possible meanings and purposes.
Use the word or not, think it to be reserved for an era that has long since past, or use it to your habitual preferences in referring refer to the nieghborhood hoodlums that do nothing but hit the pipe; it is but a word.
What you put into that one word, and what you take it out of it as well, makes all the difference.
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As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world (that is the myth of the Atomic Age) as in being able to remake ourselves. —Mohandas K. Gandhi
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