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You are a Hippy This page will be the index for an interdisciplinary, open, forum on the 'Hippy Question.' Open to a certain extent: we are all too aware of the dangers of liberalism. No boring anti-Hippy diatribes will be included, although they may be linked to. No comfortable perspectives . . . such as those of hippies/not hippies, intellectuals/artists, psychedelic rock trippy dippy boring pot smokers/white trash junky purists . . . yes, this page is not aligned to even a particular drug! The Hippy Question In the first half of the 20th century, there were many responses to the anguish which resulted from the world being drained of holiness. This process resulted in the culture with which we are familiar today. But whereas there were several different responses in this period, in the second half of the twentieth century, there was a single overwhelming social movement - towards liberalism, best represented by the figure of the 'hippy.' What happened? What did it mean? We live in the aftermath of the 60s. All other developments – the greed of the 80s, the internet explosion of the nineties – are only effects of this ecstatic embracing of individualism, the abandonment of the family unit, that moved from the outskirts of society into the mainstream in the sixties. Hippies are a bottomless pit, a continually vexing question . . . there is an echo of the 'Jewish Question.' The ‘Jewish Question’ became so prominent in the first half of the twentieth century as a result of the loss of meaning and the accompanying increase in mercantilism. A society in shock realised that it was being robbed, by the devil, of its holiness, and in an ultra evil move blamed with a natural reflex the Jews: after all, they had been taught that ‘the Jews murdered the little baby Jesus.’ People subconsciously recognised that the Jewish diaspora, the watering down of religion in most Jewish families, the break up of family and national bonds as Jews were deprived of citizenship, their inevitable mercantilism, reflected the encroaching fate of all humans. Instead of trying to save everyone, they cleverly thought up the idea of killing the Jews. When we were finished with the Jews, the hippies came along. Our stupid mistake in killing the Jews meant that we could no longer ask the questions that the left AND RIGHT had been able to ask in sadistic forms before: how can we prevent individualism from achieving power? How can we stop consumerism? We GAVE IN from shame. We are all hippies. Consider your last five romantic relationships. How do you dress? Do you dress how you 'want' to dress? Even if you dress as a skinhead because you 'want' to, that makes you a hippy. Where do you work? Would you consider yourself able to quit your job at any time? Do you have aspirations outside the class you were born into? Etc. But how can a 'hippy' study a 'hippy'? We are both 'thinking hippy' right now. Are freedom and economic liberalism inseperable? I would say yes. |
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