Hippie philosophy
We are stardust, we are
golden,
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Johny Mitchell/CS&N (Woodstock
and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
Johny Mitchell/CS&N (
The Hippie
Generation was searching peace, love and community. Rejecting middle class
values and the teaching of the generations who had come before them, the hippie
movement created a culture of its own, embracing "free love" and
beginning the sexual revolution. However, the hippie movement had a darker side
as well, encouraging the use of drugs ranging from marijuana to LSD.
Here we tell you
about the main aspects of the hippie philosophy
Anti-War Movement
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One of the most
recognizable aspects of the hippie counterculture was the strong opposition to
wars and nuclear weapons. They often participated in peace movements, but never
used violent tactics. Hippies carried out teach-ins which explained what was
going on in Vietnam
One of the most remarkable
moments of the movement was on October 21st, 1967. 100,000 hippies, liberals
and others marched peacefully on the Pentagon in an attempt to levitate it.
They were met with a human barricade of 2,500 soldiers surrounding the
Pentagon. And soon enough, violence erupted when the more radical protestors
clashed with US Marshals. The protest lasted for almost three days before order
was restored. To further promote their pacifist cause, some placed flowers in
the barrels of the soldiers’ guns while others made daisy chains.
Influence from East
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The hippie movement
was deeply influenced by Eastern philosophy and religions. Yoga, meditation and
vegetarianism became common practices in hippie communities. These were the
ways to fight the inner demons which prevent people from being kind to each
other. However, hippie rejected some aspects of eastern religions, such us
celibacy and social hierarchy.
Sexual
Revolution
Make love not war.
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Beat poets and
writers like Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs wrote
popular books that embraced sensuality and sexual experimentation as an
essential ingredient to living life to its fullest.
In America
Communal living
situations fostered short-lived relationships, and much sexual experimentation.
Even the taboo against sex in public was forgotten. In parks, at festivals, in
fact almost any hippie gathering was often the occasion for newly formed
"couples" to get it on, often in public view. "Free love"
meant you could love anyone, anywhere, anytime, without guilt.
In the 1960s
different forms of birth control were popularized. This allowed women to have
sex, without concern about unintended consquences.
Rejection to Consumerism
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The torn, colorful
clothes and the long messy hair and beards worn by adepts were used to express
the dissatisfaction with a society completely corrupted by consumerism. The
psychedelic colors were a response to the sobriety and formality imposed by the
the past generation.
Clothes were
self-made as well as hygiene products in order to be eco-friendly and
demonstrate that it is possible to live without harming the environment. Since
true beauty comes from inside, hippies opposed to the society’s beauty
dictatorship as if clothes and cosmetic products could make a person beautiful.
Drugs and Spirituality
If you can remember the '60s, then you weren't there.
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In the 60s, drugs
were not seen as evil (maybe, except for heroin). Drugs helped people, or at
least made them feel better. Colorful fashions, several art movements and of
course the incredible outpouring of musical talent in the 1960s was directly
due to the impact of psychedelic drugs.
Drugs helped
hippies break away from the confines of their mind and the society that mankind
has built up around itself, the same one that makes laws, religions, etc. It
was like opening the third eye of subconsciousness.
Hippies claimed the idea that society tries to
forbid everything that is pleasurable, only because pleasure equals
"sin" in most of the organized religions, and drug use was a kind of
protest against the social oppression. 
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