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warrrreagl · 06-28-2007, 04:35 PM

Congrats, abaya, for creating a thread that went platinum in one day.

My connotation of hippie is positive. It seems to be fashionable currently to refer to them in the negative. I've never been fashionable.

My own slanted opinion of them is that they began in Greenwich Village as beatniks and slowly gravitated westward. The more musical of them became a dichotomy as they simultaneously represented peace, love, and understanding while also posing as the American pop music answer to the British Invasion. And just like any great movement that involves humans, there will always be bad apples in the bunch who ruin it for everybody else. In The Big Chill, Tom Berenger's character says something like, "We thought everybody who looked like us and talked like us would also think like us."

The song Creeque Alley by Mamas & the Papas explains a lot.

Additionally, I was born in 1960, so I knew them well.

06-28-2007, 04:35 PM	#57 (permalink)
warrrreagl pinche vato Location: backwater, Third World, land of cotton	Congrats, abaya, for creating a thread that went platinum in one day. My connotation of hippie is positive. It seems to be fashionable currently to refer to them in the negative. I've never been fashionable. My own slanted opinion of them is that they began in Greenwich Village as beatniks and slowly gravitated westward. The more musical of them became a dichotomy as they simultaneously represented peace, love, and understanding while also posing as the American pop music answer to the British Invasion. And just like any great movement that involves humans, there will always be bad apples in the bunch who ruin it for everybody else. In The Big Chill, Tom Berenger's character says something like, "We thought everybody who looked like us and talked like us would also think like us." The song Creeque Alley by Mamas & the Papas explains a lot. Additionally, I was born in 1960, so I knew them well. __________________ Living is easy with eyes closed. Last edited by warrrreagl; 06-28-2007 at 04:37 PM..