Not the real hippies. Not 60's and 70's hippies who had really lived on themselves. Not the hippies that who were REALLY enlightened to what was going on in the world. I was driving today and was reminded of how people in Santa Cruz think that wearing a black shirt, standing on an overpass, holding a sign and creating traffic somehow actually does something. Do I hate real hippies?
No, I hate fake hippies, the hippies that shop at Trader Joe's and think that the organic label is somehow equivalent to growing it themselves, and that it makes them somehow better than the single mom who shops at Safeway for the sales. Don't get me wrong I shop at Trader Joe's too (and Safeway), but it's all about the attitude. Look for it and you'll see it, if you don't it's probably you. The hippies that get ALL their news from Alex Jones and believe that it's not one-sided just like FoxNews and CNN, only skewed the other way. The hippies that think anti-growth can work, when all it really does is make more traffic for the PEOPLE WHO LIVE HERE! The hippies that follow Ralph Nader and don't realize that he's no better than they are holding a sign on the overpass fucking up traffic, talking about wanting to change stuff, but merely wasting their resources (in Nader's case money, in the Bay's case, time, yours and mine) by merely riling people up, and for what? To say you did it? To say you got through to people? WHAT FREAKING GOOD DOES THAT DO? DO SOMETHING! Anything! I don't care, but your fucking sign doesn't change a thing. You want change, do something different, don't just talk (hold a sign) that says your pissed (or a more national example, tea parties). Really!?! And what are you accomplishing, really? OOOOO, now they know you're angry. So? You think they really care when all you do is say it when all you do is talk. Affect Change, idiots. Good thing you actually made anything at all happen. SHUT UP!!!! Because all your doing is making peoples' days harder than they already are. The last thing this country needs right now is for people who claim to be trying fix it (though again, are they really?) making lives of good people harder. I'm not at all calling for a revolution or anything like that, all I'm saying is they aren't doing anything besides making everyone else's life that they say their helping, harder.
And I know I'm at ground zero and I may piss some people off with this, but I grew up in the area and I'm one of the few that didn't buy into the shit. I'm one of the few that actually researches both sides of a story before I pick a side (if I pick a side), and I'm fed up with what I see. I guess what I'm describing are yuppies. I love real hippies, but I don't think there are any left.
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Yes, real hippies vs. faux hippies. Good topic. I agree, and of course Santa Cruz is the place where the original VW Bus came to die and faux hippies abound like crab grass. These are the same idiots that wallpaper their cars in bumper stickers that have those trite sayings that make them feel like they are far more intelligent than the average joe follwed with a retarted hint at a joke. i.e. "visualize whirled peas". Of course, I had a bumper sticker of my own, once upon a time that said "shave our hippies". Damn I miss my bumper sticker.
ReplyDeleteyou know...your right. I feel that sometimes I do play my self in some of these situations, but I am not a hippie. I feel that some of the hippies now do act in that way or manner; for example. I have been to Santa Cruz a few times and everytime I go, I see some kind of rally or signs hanging up and people are protesting for something. Then there are hippies I've met that say deodrant has this gnar chemical in it that blocks pores and they wouldn't use it because it causes cancer. Trust me man I have heard a lot of crazy shit from hippies, but do not let it get to you. Hopefully this hippie revolution will end, you don't have to be a hippie to change things and not take showers haha..
ReplyDeleteHolding a sign doesn't change anything. And yes, Santa Cruz is the worst. You'll see the same people, on the same bridges and corners, every week with a different "cause". I can't help but think they just want a cause, any cause. If the rest of the world for what they are saying, they'd flip to the other side with the snap of a finger.
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying that believing in stuff is not okay. What I'm saying is two things. One, I don't believe that they (well, most of them) really truly believe in or even honestly know what they are rallying for. And two, they aren't changing anything, with the black shirt and sign anyway. They could go out there and stand with blank signs.
You have a point about the hippies shopping at Trader Joe's. The word Hippie is derived from the word hypocrite. I think there were some good original hippies, though I think a lot of the originals were hypocrite's too. I was kind of a hippie once, though realized that it is just a another form of establishment, a marketing gimmick. You just have to be your self.
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