star me if u find this intresting
2007-12-04 12:35:22 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
How did it originate?
Well I was 9 in '69, and I looked up to the hippie teens and youth as cool, laid back, funny, and colorful. They would just come up with things out of the blue and go places and try things that the uptight established society at that time would not do or approve of. The hippies had art, music, humor, passion, and then you saw two directions going:
Some were heavy partiers and lost control, just kind of became bums.
Some became creative and educated in something and started building their own homes and living their idea of paradise.
But i still found hippies more entertaining than, say, Sunday school teachers.
The laid back attitude can come from a natural pacifist approach to life, or by a little jointje. But in general the hippies were wide open when it came to experimenting and so it's hard to define. Groups always form around musical tastes, but some folks are true individuals and can't be pegged down.
Hippies sort of lost interest in "competing
with the Joneses" and decide it would be more fun to set loose from the rat race. Some found ways to make money, some did not.
Some found that their funky style didn't work its magic anymore now that they weren't a spring chicken, so they found a way...
Between the hippies and today, we've gone through new wave, punk, skinheads, disco, hip hop, rap, and so on, but there's still a hip vein running through, coming out with rock ballads and green energy, but they've just become part of the mix with all the choices. Now they're not as visible as they were in the 60's up against a very conservative background. But they're still around, some humans where nature just takes its course. Some creative, some self destruct, May we all stay in peace. And Love.
2007-12-04 12:58:36 · answer #1 · answered by topink 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie
2007-12-04 20:39:24 · answer #2 · answered by Ace Librarian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Asbury Heights, San Francisco, California -- 1960s. Peace. :D
2007-12-04 20:49:43 · answer #3 · answered by annswers 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was the ME generation full blown self absorption. Post WW II kids.
2007-12-04 20:42:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋