Hippies C or D

Yeah, that's something I realize now. But as a kid in the early 90s immersing himself in the written history of the sixties, it was really easy to conflate the social progress achieved by grassroots groups with the new-agey acid-era crap espoused by Leary, etc.

I'd bet that a good portion of young hippie-types in the 90s were in it for this same reason.

Yeah I've lived in Asheville before, and can't wait to get back. Look forward to seeing the hippies, beats the conservative homogeneity of central TX. But I echo the sentiment so oft expressed here, hippies are better in theory than in practice/personal encounter. They can often seem so thick/hypocritical/smug/downright amoral/evil.

lol @ "they're not hippies, they're psychedelic post-mods!"

I don't know if he's trying to compare hippies and beats but I see them as near opposites. I find beatnik rhetoric much more attractive than what I've come to recognize as hippie rhetoric.

there was a lot of crossover. the transition in san francisco from beat to hippie was smooth-ish.

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/68448_542354555790049_817769286_n.jpg

looks like the hippie got killed by some kind of greaser

"The Birth of Sha Na Na"

worst hippie fashion atrocity has to be the across-the-forehead headband, as seen here in olivia newton-john's retro stylings:

Really hate that this is a trendy thing nowadays.

yes, much hate that

Oh for real? That's totally classic.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_cktyTQe_Sv0/TDvnpBc-m5I/AAAAAAAAAYc/cx9CAJ8eQuQ/s640/william-rast-fall-fashion-beauty-hair-model-240sd02182010.jpg

I'm really starting to hate hippies, sorry.

you need to get out of western mass then

also i love the across-the-forehead headband

you need to get out of western mass then

Yeah...although this thought also occurred to me a few weeks ago when I was in Cali (Joshua Tree). They're everywhere!

so apparently ken kesey's son is parking his dumb bus outside of my house all weekend :(

I'm trying to figure out which parts are figurative and which literal in your post, Jordan

BTW Hippies are classic if only for coming up with the wonderful, mind-blowing yet oddly pragmatic mess that was the Whole Earth Catalog.

unfortunately my post is all too literal

thank kickstarter, OF COURSE
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/furthur50/furthur-bus-50th-anniversary-trip

Here's some vintage Kesey for you Phish Phans!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvqUqsqBqnE

Omg I had no idea that was going on Jordan.