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Runaway-White-Slave ago

The term "Hippie" was derived by the establishment and applied almost universally to all young people. It was also seen as a term of derision broadly across the youth scene at the time. Those we call "Hippies" were a diverse lot from diverse backgrounds.

The theory has a lot of truth to it though, I read a nice series of articles that came out in installments on SOTT, something to do with Laurel Canyon & the CIA, found it.... I think the articles were long since memory-holed though. It went into how Jim Morrison's dad was an Admiral and was in the Gulf of Tonkin and either personally reported the false flag the started the Vietnam War or was deep in that situation either way. It's also went into how a lot of the "Hippie Scene" musicians and artists came from military, military intelligence, or CIA linked families... So there is very much a certain amount of truth and reality to the theory.

Once again though all these "Hippies" were not the same, a ton of them came from Christian backgrounds, some of them never even got much into the "drug-scene"... Some of them saw the value in some drugs in moderation, such as cannabis which has since been proven medicinal, and even psychedelic mushrooms which have since been demonstrated if not proven to be medicinal. They were fighting for those rights as well, while trying to take on; the Vietnam War, corrupt establishment, and everything else. A large portion of them would be considered "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", and all sorts of derogatory terms when compared to their modern "counter-parts".

Whether they were all actually "Hippies" or not, assuming their is some consensus on a term that was rejected by a large segment who was labeled with it, don't matter, they weren't all the same. They weren't all degenerates, even if they smoked a little pot and tripped shrooms, a large chunk of them were about some sort of family values and rejected the whole Free Sex craze which they accurately pegged as mass whoredom and degeneration...

You are correct, it's just a much more complex and nuanced picture when taking in the full scope of the "Hippie" generation.

Dismal_Swamp ago

I remember coming across this a while back on SOTT and even though it made sense and the dots connected very well, I couldn't understand why in the hell Musicians or people like McKenna would be strategically used and put in place to meet some kind of negative end goal. I couldn't see what that goal was back then. Some of my favorite writers and musicians being used for nefarious purposes. Now I see it though and what it can do to younger minds. They dropped a time bomb into the very things that hold a society together. Hallucinogens can help open your mind to the bullshit around you in everyday life but they can also take a young persons mind and throw it into complete chaos before they've even had a chance to develop. What good is eating mushrooms and exploring the inner depths of the mind if the society around you is falling apart. Some of the things I used to despise when I was younger I've come to appreciate because they're the glue that hold our society together.