Yeah, the “peace movie” thing is kind of annoying. Sure, there could be “peace movies”, but lots and lots of “war movies” are also peace movies. Any war movie that shows people dying meaningless deaths or experiencing meaningless suffering is also a peace movie. Or perhaps she meant movies that were about wars that were averted. Only one I can think of would be “Gandhi”, were he averted a war of independence against the British. Although how many people were killed in the post-independence partition? He avoided one war but couldn’t avoid another. Does that make “Gandhi” a peace movie?
Or maybe movies that have no violence whatsoever are peace movies. Well, there are millions of rom-coms that don’t have any violence.
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The 17 year old daughter of my friend’s girlfriend was telling him the other day “My dad lives out in Eugene with all the hippies. They smell like ass, but they get the best chronic.”
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All the hippies from Eugene I know are mad cool, and don’t smell bad at all.
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And what’s up with the whole no bathing? Pollutes Mother Earth with the funk of your being? Washes away your essential vibe?
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More like, “Dude, I stink. I gotta shower…right after I smoke another bowl…” Seriously, they KNOW they stink. Some of them revel in it, in a stick-it-to-the-man anti establishment, deodorant is the work of the brainwashing devils among us who want to sell us on the idea that the natural human odor is bad and gross so that they can sell us soaps and shampoos and deodorant and AXE body spray kind of way. But most of them just don’t care if it bothers you. Some of them actually *like *that it bothers you, or at least find it funny. And some are just getting back into town from a long camping trip with no showers. (That last one would be me. Sorry.)
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Yeah, the “peace movie” thing is kind of annoying. Sure, there could be “peace movies”, but lots and lots of “war movies” are also peace movies. Any war movie that shows people dying meaningless deaths or experiencing meaningless suffering is also a peace movie. Or perhaps she meant movies that were about wars that were averted. Only one I can think of would be “Gandhi”, were he averted a war of independence against the British. Although how many people were killed in the post-independence partition? He avoided one war but couldn’t avoid another. Does that make “Gandhi” a peace movie?
Or maybe movies that have no violence whatsoever are peace movies. Well, there are millions of rom-coms that don’t have any violence.
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And what’s up with the whole no bathing? Pollutes Mother Earth with the funk of your being? Washes away your essential vibe?
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We had a hippie group set up at our local Global Warming gathering on Earth Day. Their handout had all sorts of interested suggestions about how to save our resources and one of them was to not bathe or shower. They also suggested eating fresh roadkill instead of buying meat. Oh, and reducing your consumption of cocaine, since it’s not local.
That’s only because the second largest political party is the Moderate Party (although they’re not very moderate, in truth).
Re: the OP, sounds like hippies have changed a bit since I was last in the US. I thought a laid-back, mellow, live-and-let-live attitude was the defining characteristic of a hippy, myself. That certainly was the case for me and most of my former Dead-head friends, anyway.
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Re: the OP, sounds like hippies have changed a bit since I was last in the US. I thought a laid-back, mellow, live-and-let-live attitude was the defining characteristic of a hippy, myself. That certainly was the case for me and most of my former Dead-head friends, anyway.
Oh well. Peace and love, baby.
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or the OP misappropriates a term. There’s any number of folks who will get into your face w/their agendas, whatever the agenda is. the fact they’re into green, or herbal alternatives doesn’t make 'em hippies in my book. Tis rather the attitude you describe here.
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Because they have been insidiously brainwashed by the prevailing culture to believe that their unsustainably high level of material wealth is a ‘right’, and that gross disparities in health and wealth between humans is part of a just natural order which justifies maintaining the status quo?
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Workers of the world, unite! From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!
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By the way, and as an aside not really apropos anything in particular, did you know, wring, that Ann Coulter is a former Dead-head?
Definitely not a hippy, though.
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A. exactly my point.
B. the phrase “dead head” brings on new meaning in reference to her, though.
Eh. It’s like any subculture. Some nice folks, some jackasses, and some utter morons.
wring and Mr. Svinlesha, I know plenty of laidback, mellow, live-and-let-live folks who could not possibly be described as hippies. And some self-described hippies who are self-righteous, in-your-face jerks.
My favorite hippie story: I was in the grocery store one day and spotted this total earth mama with her two little girls, about four and six. All three of them barefoot, with patchwork skirts and scraggly, white-people dredlocks. The kids were begging their mom to buy them Barbie Bubble Bath. Something about it cracked me up, this hippie chick with two little girls who just wanted to be pretty, pretty princesses.
