Once perceived as a threat to society, "hippies" seem to have attained almost iconic status with the youth of today. What gives? Where does it come from? And why, over 30 years after the craze?
2007-10-23 20:21:45 · 17 answers · asked by OP 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
That's how society works. Heck, bellbottoms made a comeback for a while.
2007-10-23 20:24:38 · answer #1 · answered by cbgrisle 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cuz it was a time when we made our own culture - we were "Out to change the world" and believed, very naively , we could do it in a matter of months or maybe a few years. We saw through the phoney politicians and the shallow lifestyle the Western world was sinking into. We wanted some meaning in our lives - we saw that war was instigated by old men who send young men out to die for their insanity. We saw Nature, the very thing that sustains us in every way, being descimated by greed and ignorance. We saw hatred and fear ruling people's lives - it had to change.
Guess what? although we did awaken people to the needed change and actually made a few cahnges, today's people realise the "hippies" of the 60's we just approaching the problems. Jerry Rueben once said something like, OUr generation is waking people up, Politicizing the people but it's the next generations that are going to actually make the changes.
That's what's happening. Our society took a breath, hoped everything had calmed down, Goerge Bush took over the Presidency (He wasn't elected) and this generation saw through the lies and crappolla long before the media or the politicains did an dnow this generation is taking it on, moving it forward. Listen to progressive Hip-Hop. It's not all about "gangstas" The real stuff is about revolution.
2007-10-23 20:35:10 · answer #2 · answered by Larry A 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hippies resonate with the liberals in polotics, the birth of the youth centered culture (prior to the mid fifties, it was not so youth centered- and the 60s just took that to rediculous levels), and many Boomers were either hippies or psudo hippies. Hippies are responsible for popularizing envionmentalism at it's modern scale, pushing the form of Rock that became Heavy Metal and all it's off shoots, making the last quarter of the 20th century pretty much what it was. So they are gonna keep comming back at us for quite a while.
2007-10-24 14:35:06 · answer #3 · answered by SamwiseGardner 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I have heard it said that history repeats itself,and that seems to be happening now with the hippie craze. We all have seen it with the hair styles, eye glasses, and clothes, its just part of this life
2007-10-23 20:28:15 · answer #4 · answered by Texas 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is not just now "over 30 years after the craze"...
It has been there around us all of the time, it just happens that you just noticed it...
-(Hippies were the founders, fighters, and the pioneers of what-we-are-today... You name it, thanks to them we're not stuck in the 40's and 50's anymore. Thanks to them we have more liberties and freedoms; fashion completely changed; foods became new again in different forms; the government doesn't have us on the tip of their fingers anymore; styles of any forms became what we have today; marches to proclaim our citizens' rights were formed; peace was claimed to our land, and on and on and on... And, all of this and much, much more, while the government was desperately trying to "discredit" them without success after persecuting and torturing them.
And, listen to this: They were the greatest inventors revolutionizing the world as we have it today... Some of them? The invention of the computer and... the invention of the Internet...
About that for a hippie, uh?)-
2007-10-23 20:39:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Young people made a big hippie movement in the 80s, too. Hippies represent people who stood up and took risks in order to try to fix things that the government was doing wrong (such as the Vietnam War). Today, people are talking, but not acting.
2007-10-23 20:26:02 · answer #6 · answered by Holiday Magic 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
make love not war.. pretty simple.. liken the ladies...war is no fun especially this sad affair in Iraq ; when the going gets tough the weird turn pro ;and hippies are pretty weird some times its all a mater of perspective, of what or whom is making the observation some old hippie in alaska
2007-10-23 21:11:31 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I am 35 and when I was 16 or 17 I was influenced by the hipopy movement....so they've never really gone away..or rather their influence has not....the music was fabulous and the attitude was a good one....my guess is that they will keep resurfacing.
2007-10-23 20:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by Daisyhill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like it or not, the baby-boomers are reaching retirement age and now getting to the point where all the kids have grown up and gone. They now have disposable income that marketers are competing for. That's why you see investment firms using Beatles tunes to advertise anyway.
2007-10-23 20:34:23 · answer #9 · answered by Deadhead Incognito 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We realized that the Hippies made the best music. Rebellion and "sticking it to the man" is now in, and that's what the hippies did, they were Revolutionaries. i personally just love 60's psychedelic music.
2007-10-23 20:25:39 · answer #10 · answered by meep meep 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋