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Post by jdredd on Apr 16, 2015 20:28:48 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32339446"The economic crisis that began in 2008 has exposed many of the underlying tensions in countries across Europe. Greece's recently elected government, led by radical leftist party Syriza, has said no to austerity and called on Europe to reduce its debts. As talks with the EU, especially Germany, drag on, people are taking matters into their own hands. Communes have sprung up across the country.An unemployed music teacher is the leading light of a commune on the Greek island of Crete." Ha-ha! Ideas never die, even bad ones. But it may be inevitable that this age of hyper-individualism will eventually change course. Why? Mankind's survival may depend on it.
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Post by jdredd on May 1, 2015 18:21:51 GMT -5
About the only thing I saw that noted the 40th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon (or the Liberation of Ho Chi Minh City depending on your point of view) was a PBS showing of a documentary made last year (and I forgot the name) that was nominated for an academy award. Somehow it managed to make an interesting subject really dull. But I did catch the last fifteen minutes of a documentary on the Kent State killings called "The Day the 60's Died", which was not nearly as dull. Their theory was that the killings helped Nixon rally the "Silent Majority" for his 1972 election landslide victory. Could be. Old blowhard Pat Buchanan claimed so anyway. And footage from the so-called "Hard Hat Riot" in NYC was fascinating in an horrifying way. The worst part about the Kent State thing was not that a bunch of misled and scared National Guard kids fired on students, but that the residents of the city cheered them for doing it. Most of those bloodthirsty folks are trying to explain themselves to Jesus by now.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 27, 2015 0:51:12 GMT -5
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gay-marriage-scalias-ask-nearest-hippie-line-gets-laughs-n382481"One line in Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's dissent on gay marriage captured the public imagination after Friday's historic decision. "Ask the nearest hippie." The conservative was skewering the argument that marriage brings with it freedoms such as expression, intimacy and spirituality." "Who ever thought that intimacy and spirituality [whatever that means] were freedoms?" he wrote. "And if intimacy is, one would think that Freedom of Intimacy is abridged rather than expanded by marriage. Ask the nearest hippie." The entertainment value of Scalia is worth his outrageous verdicts. What century is the guy living in? Hippies? Really?
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Post by jdredd on Dec 25, 2015 3:50:04 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35178228"Pope Francis has warned the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics not to be "intoxicated" by possessions in his annual Christmas homily. He called for more sobriety in a world obsessed by "consumerism and hedonism, wealth and extravagance". The Pope was celebrating a Christmas eve Mass in St Peter's Basilica in front of about 10,000 people. Later on Friday he will deliver his traditional Christmas message from the central balcony of St Peter's Square. Celebrating Mass, the Pope said Christmas was the time to "once more discover who we are". I guess the right wing press is right: Pope Francis is a neohippie. Doesn't he know that consumerism is what keeps the global economy afloat?
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Post by jdredd on Jul 18, 2017 15:33:57 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/449594/fifth-american-war-blue-state-vs-red-elites-vs-populists-egalitarianism-vs-libertyIn the 1960s, the hippie movement — fueled by furor over the Vietnam War, civil-rights protests, and environmental activism — turned holistic in a fashion rarely seen before. A quarter of the country went “hip,” grooming, dressing, talking, and acting in a way that reflected their disdain for the silent majority of “straight” or “irrelevant” traditional America. The hipsters lost the battle (most eventually cut their hair and outgrew their paisley tops to join the rat race) but won the war — as the universities, media, foundations, Hollywood, arts, and entertainment now echo the values of 1969 rather than those that preceded it. Now we are engaged in yet a fifth revolutionary divide, similar to, but often unlike, prior upheavals. The consequences of globalization, the growth of the deep state, changing demographics, open borders, the rise of a geographic apartheid between blue and red states, and the institutionalization of a permanent coastal political and culture elite — and the reaction to all that — are tearing apart the country." "In this latest arena of civil dissent, Donald Trump, the renegade liberal and most unlikely traditionalist, squares off against the elite that despises his very being not only for reasons of class and culture, but mostly for attempting to restore a traditional regime of citizenship, individualism, assimilation, territorial sovereignty, recognized borders, strong defense, deterrence abroad, and free-market capitalism. In sum, behind the daily hysterias over collusions, recusals, obstructions, and nullifications, there is an ongoing, often vicious war over the very nature and future of Western culture in general and America in particular." Well, it would be nice to think the hippies "won the war", but it's a war that never ends. Like our endless wars in the Middle East. Besides, if the hippies had "won", we wouldn't be bombing the hell out of the Muslim world. And we wouldn't be building a moronic wall.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 18, 2017 22:33:51 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/449594/fifth-american-war-blue-state-vs-red-elites-vs-populists-egalitarianism-vs-libertyIn the 1960s, the hippie movement — fueled by furor over the Vietnam War, civil-rights protests, and environmental activism — turned holistic in a fashion rarely seen before. A quarter of the country went “hip,” grooming, dressing, talking, and acting in a way that reflected their disdain for the silent majority of “straight” or “irrelevant” traditional America. The hipsters lost the battle (most eventually cut their hair and outgrew their paisley tops to join the rat race) but won the war — as the universities, media, foundations, Hollywood, arts, and entertainment now echo the values of 1969 rather than those that preceded it. Now we are engaged in yet a fifth revolutionary divide, similar to, but often unlike, prior upheavals. The consequences of globalization, the growth of the deep state, changing demographics, open borders, the rise of a geographic apartheid between blue and red states, and the institutionalization of a permanent coastal political and culture elite — and the reaction to all that — are tearing apart the country." "In this latest arena of civil dissent, Donald Trump, the renegade liberal and most unlikely traditionalist, squares off against the elite that despises his very being not only for reasons of class and culture, but mostly for attempting to restore a traditional regime of citizenship, individualism, assimilation, territorial sovereignty, recognized borders, strong defense, deterrence abroad, and free-market capitalism. In sum, behind the daily hysterias over collusions, recusals, obstructions, and nullifications, there is an ongoing, often vicious war over the very nature and future of Western culture in general and America in particular." Well, it would be nice to think the hippies "won the war", but it's a war that never ends. Like our endless wars in the Middle East. Besides, if the hippies had "won", we wouldn't be bombing the hell out of the Muslim world. And we wouldn't be building a moronic wall.And these freaks would destroy this country! As I said go live in some Country Illegally! Report back to us If you Live long enough! Answer The Both Questions! you can't ADD forever! Proof? Evidence??
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Post by jdredd on Jul 20, 2017 3:23:33 GMT -5
www.nationalreview.com/article/449594/fifth-american-war-blue-state-vs-red-elites-vs-populists-egalitarianism-vs-libertyIn the 1960s, the hippie movement — fueled by furor over the Vietnam War, civil-rights protests, and environmental activism — turned holistic in a fashion rarely seen before. A quarter of the country went “hip,” grooming, dressing, talking, and acting in a way that reflected their disdain for the silent majority of “straight” or “irrelevant” traditional America. The hipsters lost the battle (most eventually cut their hair and outgrew their paisley tops to join the rat race) but won the war — as the universities, media, foundations, Hollywood, arts, and entertainment now echo the values of 1969 rather than those that preceded it. Now we are engaged in yet a fifth revolutionary divide, similar to, but often unlike, prior upheavals. The consequences of globalization, the growth of the deep state, changing demographics, open borders, the rise of a geographic apartheid between blue and red states, and the institutionalization of a permanent coastal political and culture elite — and the reaction to all that — are tearing apart the country." "In this latest arena of civil dissent, Donald Trump, the renegade liberal and most unlikely traditionalist, squares off against the elite that despises his very being not only for reasons of class and culture, but mostly for attempting to restore a traditional regime of citizenship, individualism, assimilation, territorial sovereignty, recognized borders, strong defense, deterrence abroad, and free-market capitalism. In sum, behind the daily hysterias over collusions, recusals, obstructions, and nullifications, there is an ongoing, often vicious war over the very nature and future of Western culture in general and America in particular." Well, it would be nice to think the hippies "won the war", but it's a war that never ends. Like our endless wars in the Middle East. Besides, if the hippies had "won", we wouldn't be bombing the hell out of the Muslim world. And we wouldn't be building a moronic wall.And these freaks would destroy this country! As I said go live in some Country Illegally! Report back to us If you Live long enough! Answer The Both Questions! you can't ADD forever! Proof? Evidence?? Once we hippies get rid of all borders, you can live anywhere you want. Isn't that what freedom is about? Do you think on the Earth of Star Trek, there are national borders? There isn't even money!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 7:52:44 GMT -5
Once we hippies get rid of all borders, you can live anywhere you want. Isn't that what freedom is about? Do you think on the Earth of Star Trek, there are national borders? There isn't even money! On star trek there is Money its called Latinuim How You Spell It! Live anywhere you want? Get Real! You think some country is going to let people living of the fat of their tax payer money, Crime will Increase, They will disrespect their Laws and Culture also bringing in Diseases that goes Unchecked! Answer the Both Questions! Proof? Evidence?
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Post by jdredd on Aug 10, 2019 11:38:16 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/arts/music/woodstock-50-anniversary.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"The hippie ideal was to ignore or escape the system, not to game it. And the engineering/M.B.A. notion that every transaction is a zero-sum game — if someone gains, someone else has to lose just as much — had not set in. In the expansionary 1960s, it felt as if there could be enough for everyone. Woodstock festivalgoers weren’t reflexively selfish; there was a goofy solidarity. Social science defines a “tragedy of the commons,” where sustainable community resources are instead consumed by short-term individual self-interest, but Woodstock was, for that long weekend in 1969, more like a comedy of the commons. In the mud together, most people were willing to laugh off annoyances and share. The drugs probably helped. But forget the nostalgia. Millennials have every right to point out how Woodstock represented baby boomer privilege in crystalline form. We got a free marathon all-star concert. (I don’t begrudge my $18.) We swarmed a previously unspoiled dairy farm and its surroundings. We absolutely thought we were the center of the universe. And afterward, someone else had to clean up the giant mess we left behind. Insert the global-warming analogy." Lots of nostalgia in the press for Woodstock. I'm not into nostalgia.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 14, 2019 16:45:54 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/style/hippies-manson-once-upon-a-time-in-hollywood-midsommar.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage"Hippie style, at its most feverishly vibrant, strikes a similarly dissonant chord that resonates with the fashion tribes. That disharmony has long captivated designers — Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen the most obvious among them — using the runway to battle their demons, suggested Cassidy Zachary, a fashion historian and specialist in the fashions of the ’60s youth quake.
“With their smiling faces, long manes and flirty mini-dresses, hippies can seem at once both beautiful and horrific,” Ms. Zachary said. “Fashion is one place where you can explore those contradictions,” she said. “The counterculture’s unlikely fusion of darkness and glamour was fascinating in the ’60s. And it’s fascinating now.” Ha-ha! Here is one place Hippies live on: the fashion world!
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Post by jdredd on Jun 22, 2020 9:03:13 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/opinion/trump-police-reform.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"Trump has no taste or tolerance for a movement for black lives, only for the instruments to control them and quiet them. And he knows that many of his supporters share this view. That’s why he paints black protesters as criminals and their white allies as leftist radicals and even antifa. This is the blacks-and-hippies duo that racists on the right have long targeted. Author Dan Baum wrote in Harper’s zine in 2016 that John Ehrlichman, aide to Richard Nixon and Watergate co-conspirator, told him about the birth of the war on drugs: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” Anyone who didn't know this is none too bright or too young.
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Post by jdredd on Nov 26, 2021 15:52:01 GMT -5
Listening to Jordan Petersen analyze the Sermon on the Mount, and he quoted the line about “the lilies of the field” etc, and he complains that it has be interpreted as Jesus’s “hippie” identity, but it’s not according to JP. Aw, c’mon, JP, hippie Jesus is the most sympathetic Jesus, isn’t he? Of course the “hippie” Jesus is a pacifist Jesus, which is unacceptable for modern Christians.
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