Hippie Relived

A hard core hippie. Right at the center of SoHo..?

I wonder why people nowadays label someone bumming around, living as a certified couch potato a modern-day "hippie". I wonder how one can automaticaly identify a hopeless, directionless loser as "living like a hippie". I wonder why people used to think that back in the sixties and early seventies, the young generation didn't care about anything but love, peace, sex, and drugs. I have not the faintest idea.

But has anyone wondered how the sixties have shaped our minds, culture, today? Has anyone ever thought about how the sixties brought upon the voice of the youth like never before? Has anyone thought about how the geniuses of these artists, musicians, fashion icons, etc. revolutionized the industry by using their craft to convey what needs to be brought to light? Hmm..

There are tons to talk about. And the hippiedom is such a rich (though perplex) culture that people are making a mistake of overlooking this mark in history. There's Bob Dylan. There's the Woodstock. There's Mary Quant. There's Peter Max. And if go on with the names, my site might run out of memory (if this really happens in the cyber world, how ignorant of me).

That's why when i say i appreciate my dad as a genuine hippie, i revere him being as such. And i believe how he has acquired much a height of sophistication shall be accounted to his youthful days back in the sixties.