WI: Hippies as a Long Term Subgroup

There are still hippies around. Nimbin and the Byron Bay area of NSW in Australia is full of them, there are hippy communities in the UK living in yurts, I've seen what looked awfully like hippies in some of the small towns north of San Fransisco. I know several people who have jobs and mortgages who still identify themselves as a bit of a hippy.

In general, how do you define a hippy? There are plenty of groups in today's societies that share ideals (crazy or non-crazy) with the 60s hippies, I don't think you can establish rigid definitions of a subculture that is by its very nature rather individualistic and 'about freedom man'.
 
There are still hippies around. Nimbin and the Byron Bay area of NSW in Australia is full of them, there are hippy communities in the UK living in yurts, I've seen what looked awfully like hippies in some of the small towns north of San Fransisco. I know several people who have jobs and mortgages who still identify themselves as a bit of a hippy.

In general, how do you define a hippy? There are plenty of groups in today's societies that share ideals (crazy or non-crazy) with the 60s hippies, I don't think you can establish rigid definitions of a subculture that is by its very nature rather individualistic and 'about freedom man'.
Hmmm, I think that is a fair point, how do you define a quote, unquote according to Hoyle Hippy?
 
There are still hippies around. Nimbin and the Byron Bay area of NSW in Australia is full of them, there are hippy communities in the UK living in yurts, I've seen what looked awfully like hippies in some of the small towns north of San Fransisco. I know several people who have jobs and mortgages who still identify themselves as a bit of a hippy.

In general, how do you define a hippy? There are plenty of groups in today's societies that share ideals (crazy or non-crazy) with the 60s hippies, I don't think you can establish rigid definitions of a subculture that is by its very nature rather individualistic and 'about freedom man'.
Frisco is the Mecca of hippie culture in America. It's not surprising there's surviving enclaves of them over there.
 
Hmmm, I think that is a fair point, how do you define a quote, unquote according to Hoyle Hippy?
Well, according to a certain Mr Ronald Reagan -- governor of California at the time? -- a [male] Hippy was somebody "who talks like Tarzan, who has hair like Jane, and who smells like Cheetah"... :p
 
In some respects they have been a long term subgroup, they've just evolved and been absorbed into other counter cultures like some of the more political radical vegan type punk rockers. The punks have taken the politics of the hippies and deadheads and phish fans have taken the fashion sense and pot but without the politics.

exactly

what about 'crusties' and 'new age travellers' etc as well
 
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