I can vividly remember a vacation that I took to San Francisco in the back seat of a car in 1968. I sat in the back with my childhood friend Cherry Carpio whom I had a love/hate relationship with. We first met when we were 2 years old, and I was wearing a dress with strawberries on it. For no reason Cherry pushed me into the rose bushes. I was dumbfounded by her actions. I concluded, if your going to push someone at least have a good reason for it; otherwise it doesn’t make any sense at all.
So, there we were sitting in the back of the car when one of the adults in the front seat said, ” Let’s drive through Haight Ashbury and look at the hippies, and the homosexuals!” The adult suggested it with such enthusiasm that I thought, “We must be driving through some sort of cool themed animal zoo. So I asked, “What are the hippies and the homosexuals?”
I looked up the word Hippie. It is defined as: Nonconformist, bohemian beatnik, drop-out, flower child, free spirit, free thinker. Oh, and I love this one…freak. Related internet searches are: hippie clothing, hippie slang, hippie graphics. hippie art, hippie sayings, hippie symbols, hippie bus, hippie music. hippie goddess, hippie names, and Dirty Hippie.
Recently I read a news article online about Occupy LA’s arrest and evacuation from City Hall. In the article there was a photo of police cleaning the park wearing the kind bio-hazard gear you see actors wear in those epidemic disease movies. There was a line that read something like, ” We’re really happy to get rid of those dirty hippies, and we really hope they got a flu shot.” Well, I just want to point out to the paper whom published the article that some of the occupiers weren’t just hippies. They were also communists. Call them what you want. In my opinion, not only have the “hippies” changed the world, but they are now commercially mainstream. Haven’t you noticed the tie-died peace sign clothing sold in the children’s department of Nordstrom? Do you think there will be occupy clothing twenty years from now? Will there be jacket’s, scarves. and ski masks with the 99% sprayed on them in Walmart stores across America?
How did the Bourgeois Hippies change the world?
How did the Bourgeois Hippie’s change the world? Once upon a time, a group of nonconformist, bohemian, beatnik, free spirited, free thinking, freaky, bourgeois communists… smoked some pot, took some acid, ate some mushrooms, tripped, tuned -in, dropped out, and became conscious of their lack of desire to push anybody for no reason. Why, you may ask? It no longer made any sense to them at all.
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