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Originally Posted by abaya
 Thanks Jazz, but honestly you'd have to try really hard to offend me about my uncle... he offends me by simply existing, the way he does... I try to avoid him as much as possible!!
Anyway, I see what you're getting at... to you, being a hippie is a bad thing because it connotes a kind of passivity that isn't constructive to society. Interesting. Well, then my uncle certainly is not one!! He's just crazy.  |
abaya, I hope that you picked up on my hippy-like response to your uncle. I was trying to make a subtle point, although I might have been too subtle in retrospect.
Hippies as a group are neither good nor bad. Look no further than cynthetiq's signature for proof. They are just like any other group that has good and bad folks making it up. Passivity is definitely necessary at times, but I don't think that it can be the overriding and unifying principle for a successful society, which is what many hippies would have you believe. Nor do I believe that conflict is always the best approach to any given problem.