Patchouli and Phish and other such p words aren't a prerequisite to being a hippy. I'm listening to Led Zeppelin (BBC Recordings, Disc 2) right now. I smell like... um Tide? I dunno, maybe deodorant or body wash. Neo-hippieism isn't about bathing in flowers and taking a few years off work to sit naked on grass with your face painted. I hate face painting. A lot. To me it's always been about devotion to social and political responsibility along with the willingness to be one's self, sometimes in the face of normalcy.
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