Make Love Not War

A brief history of hippie movement.

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of men

Imagine all the people sharing all the world

John Lennon ('Imagine')

Back in the 1960's and 1970's these people were called Hippies. There were drugs, hallucinogens to reach higher awareness, music and Woodstock, a cause to fight for,

Vietnam

, a spiritual mission, poetry sessions to express pain and emotion, meditations, communes, cults, and more.

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Hippie (often spelled hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The movement originated on college campuses in the United States, although it spread to other countries, including Canada and Britain.

Beatniks were Hippies’ precursors. The Beat movement was a bohemian counter-culture in its own right and included experimentation with drugs and sexual liberties. The Beat writers began in New York, but most of those who were closely associated with the movement moved to San Francisco, where the Beat Generation of the 1950s would become the hippie movement of the 1960s.

Most of people in the movement were young, between the ages of 15 and 25, and it’d be right to say that the movement was that no one older than 30.

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The hippie movement is connected to young Americans' disillusionment with the Vietnam War. Hippie culture often encouraged dropping out of society because of what it viewed as social wrongs, and the movement was a catalyst for other social movements, including the back-to-the-land movement, environmental movement and the rise of organic farming.

By 1970, much of the hippie style, but little of its substance, had passed into mainstream culture. The media lost interest in the subculture as it went out of fashion with younger people and even became the target of their ridicule with the advent of punk rock. However, many hippies made, and continue to maintain, long-term commitments to the lifestyle.

Neo-Hippies

Neo-hippies are people of 21st c. who claim to believe in the hippie philosophy of 1960s. However, many critics argue, that these "new hippies" are making more of a fashion statement than a counter-culture movement.

How can you understand that a person in front of you is a hippie?

Here the list of Hippies’ distinctive features:

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Longer hair and fuller beards than current fashion.
Bright-colored clothing, and unusual styles, such as bell-bottom pants, tie-dyed garments, dashikis, peasant blouses, and non-Western inspired clothing. Much of their clothing was self-made in protest of Western consumer culture. Head scarves and long beaded necklaces, for both men and women, were also fashionable in addition to sandals.
Listening to certain styles of music; psychedelic rock such as Jimi Hendrix and Jefferson Airplane, blues such as Janis Joplin, traditional Eastern music, particularly from India, or rock music with eastern influences, soulful funk like Sly and The Family Stone, jam bands like the Grateful Dead and folk Music like Bob Dylan.
The VW Bus is usually known as the counterculture/hippie symbol; a peace symbol is usually painted where the VW logo would otherwise be seen. Because of its low cost (during the late sixties), it was revered as a utilitarian vehicle. A majority of buses were usually repainted with graphics and/or custom paint jobs. (photo)
Free love
Drug use
Communal living