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Wed Jan-11-06 11:42 AM
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| Poll question: Hippies/flower children |
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Constant point of contention between me and my hippie friend over beer.
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| EstimatedProphet
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:44 AM
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| 1. I think it was just a blip on the radar |
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:48 AM
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| 2. Short term hippies as hippies or long term results to present day? nt |
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:50 AM
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| 3. The effect of the youth movement of the 1960s |
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Not present day hippies, and the effects on today's current society, if any.
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:52 AM
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| 4. Just curious, I'm really not qualified to answer |
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except by virtue of being the spawn of washed up old hippies who gave up and embraced the pursuit of stuff.
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:55 AM
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| 6. Yeah, I say people are generally good, but inclined to be negative |
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Edited on Wed Jan-11-06 11:57 AM by Loonman
And that although hippies were instrumental in changing public views about Vietnam, they have little influence today, as evinced by Iraq, etcetera.
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Wed Jan-11-06 11:55 AM
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| 5. The hippies themselves? |
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meh, no effect. BUT broad youth culture, the rebellion against authority, I think that had a great impact on American culture and politics
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