Timothy Darymple is going off on one of his periodic screeds against hippies and their sponging off society to do their own thing.
I don’t get why so many hate hippies. But OK. I’m fine with that. I suggest everyone do what I did after I got tired of hippie. Join an outlaw MC gang. That will be SO much better for society.
You want a perfect world? Pass laws and enforce them with guns. That will insure perfection or death. Of course there might be a little problem when the enforcers run out of hippies.
Why did it all go down the way it did with the hippies falling for socialism – more like consciously embracing it actually?
As a one time hippie I can tell you for a fact that the biggest driver of the phenomenon was the pogrom on the hippies. Go back and watch Easy Rider again if you want to get the Zeitgeist of the era. Or Bob Segar’s song that starts something like “on a cold and lonesome highway east of Omaha”. Ah. “Turn The Page”.
Why would the hippies feel bad about stealing from a society that had declared war on them?
My dear Timothy – look to your own heart to find the cause of your troubles.
Or to put it so simply that even you might understand. Hate is a deadly sin.
The more you hate the more the thieves multiply. YOU are not the innocent you pretend to be. Wrapping yourself in Jesus will not save you from your hate.
H/T Insty
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14 responses to “The Hate Will Destroy You”
I do believe Segar was singing more about musicians on tour than he was about hippies.
Turn the Page. You got that right.
The “square” society was cracking down on hippies through the government, so hippies decided more-restrictive government would fix the problem?
Sorry, not buying it.
I think it’s more descriptive to say that there were really two distinct branches of hippiedom hiding under the long hair. The “leave me alone” branch and the socialist branch. When the issue was the draft, they all agreed on what was necessary so the more-political socialists became the voice of hippiedom. As long as the Left could pose as the party of individual freedoms, the Trader Joe/Whole Earth/off-the-grid hippies were content to play along.
That coalition started to crack in 2010. Its current status is an open question that will be answered in three months, and the fate of the Republic hangs on the answer.
Neil,
You may not buy it but I was there. The pogrom on the hippies led to the feeling among the hippies that stealing (taking welfare) from the society that was attacking them was fair dinkum.
A fair number of the hippies have rejected theft and turned to libertarianism as an alternative. But a LOT of them still harbor the old grudges.
Well, I’ll have to take your word for it. But you’ve got me thinking Dalrymple is not wrong to look for the underlying philosophical affinity between the hippie-hippies and the SDA “hippies”. ‘Cause 40 years is an awfully long time for “the enemy of my enemy” to make sense as a policy when your supposed ally is the greater danger.
Neil,
For most people their emotions are locked in by age 20 or 25. I was 36 when I figured it out and it took me another 8 years (’88) to find my political place (Libertarianism). So I’m a bit unusual in that respect.
BTW I think you meant the SDS and its off shoot the Weathermen who I idolized when I was on the hard left. “Vanguard of the Revolution” and all that shit.
I am very lucky to understand all that from the inside. To have felt the emotions. And now I have returned to tell the tale. And the tale is this:
Drug Prohibition is the biggest and most effective recruiting tool the left has ever had. It fits in real well with Gramscian Marxism.
It just goes to show you that our cohorts on the right are too stupid to see what is under their noses.
You are correct. SDA was a typo.
Somewhat off topic… but I never fail to get a giggle when I go to weather underground (wunderground.com) …to check the weather.
Unlike you, I decided SDS was a bit silly early on. Went to a few meetings, wasn’t impressed (that may have been a local thing). But I went libertarian early on, too. Voted Libertarian in 1976. (And thereafter until after 9/11)
P.S. “Steal This Book” I had somewhat different idols, maybe?
You Can Get Anything You Want at Alice’s Restaurant (exceptin’ Alice…).
“So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.” BF
Hippies: small herds of conforming Non-conformists, dependent Independents, communal Individualists, Stoned Philosophers, setting the mind to chase its tail. Some were dangerous, most seemed laughable.
Will,
It is obvious – never having been there and unable to accept the report of some one who was – that you don’t have a fn clue. Just an attitude.
Drop the attitude and you might learn something important. I’ll give you the short version.
Hate is not free.
Will,
As long as I’m in a teaching mood you might want to look at war.
You declare war on a people (however you define that – by looks or habits or kinship or belief etc.) don’t be surprised if they declare war back on you.
Just because you war with guns is no reason to expect you will get that kind of war in return.
In fact their war has been extremely effective because they have promoted a philosophy that is destroying the country that hated them. Delicious. They could just as well been libertarians had you left them alone. As Kathy and I have shown by example.
You’re right, I evaded and escaped the activists on both sides, so I haven’t much of a clue. My hermit POV has its own motes and beams but I find it entertaining. The drug war was/is stupid but the BS of the Hippies in the late 60’s to early 70’s was especially hilarious to me. The BS on the other side wasn’t nearly as funny; just scary.
Will,
I’m going to repost a comment I made elsewhere.
According to Rass. 56% of Americans are ready to legalize pot. Republicans are such a joke. Comrade ∅ is already wooing that vote. So what is the right doing? Running anti-hippie screeds.
http://classicalvalues.com/2012/07/the-hate-will-destroy-you/
Fookin brilliant. And you know how I found that junk? Insty linked. Without a hint of disapproval. What is the right trying to do? Keep it close?
Where are we? Back in ’69 where hippie punching was a popular sport. Isn’t the right supposed to wait until after the election until it reverts to its authoritarian roots?
As I like to tell my friends – we are being given a choice between the communists and the fascists. I prefer the fascists only because they can do the math.