June 7, 2006
Down to Orlando
Boy, it sure does suck prefacing every post I write with an apology for not posting more, but alas, life has been pretty busy lately. I’ll be out all day today with no PC access in Orlando, but I’ll try to spend some time at the hotel tonight writing.
In the meantime, go check out the Carnival of Liberty, posted over at Indian Cowboy’s blog. It’s a lighter-than-usual week over there, so you should be able to power through the whole carnival. Go and read, or you’re a bad libertarian. After all, only dirty, smelly, hippie socialists don’t read the Carnival of Liberty!
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When did the word hippie become associated with socialism? I thought the outside world use it to describe the conterculture; which included any male with long hair, a woman wearing a peasant dress, and they suspected smoked dope. You know, the average Joe would have also picked out a few libertarians.
When socialists started acting like hippies. They have a nasty way of doing that sort of thing, as I’ve opined previously on their hijacking of the “liberal” movement. Liberals used to be folks who believed in personal liberty and personal responsibility. Now it’s a code-word for socialism, although the socialists have sullied it up enough to head to “progressive”.
But socialists, much like their newfound haven, the environmentalists, have been acting like hippies for a while. When the prevalent culture is one of individualism, property rights, and capitalism, wouldn’t a socialist– who believes in collectivism, not to mention spitting on property rights and capitalism– be a part of the counterculture?
For someone who was in that time, that is too much of an intellectual allusion. Not that there were not some that were socialist, but it was more of a lifestyle than an ideological pose. Free love, communes and dope were more of a youth rebellion against authority. Yes it was leaning to the left, but all youth love utopia, as I see from your post.
True, considering I was born in 1978, I’m no expert on the true “hippie” movement.
But I do have to point out the fact that you objected to calling hippies socialists, but you didn’t object to “dirty” or “smelly”???