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User talk:Pedant/2006-09-01Fresh PageIf you need to reference a previous discussion see the section above. My talk page was getting cluttered again. Pedant 19:53, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Please look at KFA edit historyAnd observe how his/her edits are also being removed by other editors on similar grounds. In each case the edits include material from the website that you assume on good faith is not an org KFA is involved with and using wiki to promote. I'm just saying... Zeusnoos 16:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Thanks for compliment, more "Hippie" editsThanks, Pedant, for your kind comments about the "Hippie" edits. Please let me compliment you as well, both for the original reorganization of the "Characteristics" section and for your recent additions to the lead. Regarding the lead, at first I didn't quite understand what you were doing, since you copied a sentence and moved it to an earlier position, yet left that sentence in place, creating a redundancy. Now I realize that this must have been inadvertent. The new position of the sentence, and your addition of "Many people who embraced the hippie lifestyle..." looks great. Good qualification and much more logical progression of ideas. I was less than enthusiastic about your addition of "especially" to the clause about war being inhumane. Probably true, but perhaps it detracts from the encyclopedic tone? Went ahead and deleted the "especially" and moved some other stuff around. Please let me know what you think. Founders4 19:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC) Too much, too fastHi Pedant. Comments on "Hippie" talk page. Reply re Hippie... Inaccurate assessmentI wrote about the beliefs themselves, the beliefs created the hippies, not the other way around. It was the shared beliefs that brought people together in the streets, and only then did they become labeled by the industrial/corporate press as hippies. Opposition to the war was the number one core belief shared by those that later began to be labelled as hippies. As for the 'government is corrupt' section... it is a historical fact that the government of that time was corrupt , this article is about hippies, hippies did not 'feel the government was corrupt, and that corporate industry was souless and greedy'... corporations are by definition soulless, and it is not industry per se but greed which causes industrial interests to fund and supply both sides to war... Hippies originated in the time shortly after Eisenhauer warned the nation about the military industrial complex (farewell speech 1961) so it was a fresh concept and widely discussed... and hippies were a phenomenon of the wider antiwar movement, and yes, maybe "everyone believes in ' peace and love but these were fundamental to the hippie ethos... far more than putting a guitar strap on one's head as a headband, growing long hair (many, perhaps a majority of the earliest hippies did not have long hair) and 'dressing like a hippie' at a rainbow festival nearly half a century later. I really think this sentence, more than any other change I made to the article is a masterpiece of summation of hippie thought: "They believed that corrupt government and corporate industrial greed had combined to form a souless and inhumane military-industrial complex, and that traditional morals had gone askew." "They thought war was inumane" ... everybody thinks that, as you might put it. And it wasn't that traditional morals were askew, rather, that they had recently become askew. As you aptly state 'everyone believes in peace and love'. Peace and love IS a traditional moral belief. I think my sentence shows a 'reaction by people to the current history' of the era, which actually created or caused people to become (what were reffered to by media as) hippies... rather than 'suddenly the hippies arose and believed this or that' and wore long hair and played guitars. (stereotypes of hippies were created without regard to the reality of hippies and soon 'became' the reality -- showing the power of the corporate press to co-opt what was essentially, literally the essence of the hippie, the antiwar part.) The beliefs in response to the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the dawn of the supercorporation, the recognition that corporate industry and the military combined with the corrupt government had created a new thing, the military industrial complex, which Ike had warned us about at the very dawn of the 60's... this makes the article more descriptive of the beliefs that actually spawned the hippies rather than vague watered-down expressions of 'what hippies believe', and basing it on media representations of hippies "Many people who embraced the hippie lifestyle" presupposes a lifestyle, implies people joining the hippie movement -- Many of the original hippies shared a firmly held belief" shows more clearly that we are talking about the causative, formative influences that created the hippies. "Hippie lifestyle" is something that arose subsequent to the binding force of shared belief. Also I think "Another proposed source of the word "hippie" is the Wolof language of Africa where hipi or hepi means to open one's eyes and be aware." has gotta go, (or at least be prefaced with the word 'dubious' or similar wording) as it's plainly historical revisionism', like saying that "Grateful Dead" 'may have come from a theatrical expression of 'one who sees the show for free' from the practice of giving away tickets to fill seats in the theater. Clearly "hippie" did not originate in the relatively obscure-at-the-time Wolof language. More helpful would be a citation of the first time hippie appeared in print, and a quote from that source. And I don't think 'neo-hippies needs so much detail in this article, I merged all the neohippie material preparatory to breaking it out to a main article of its own. As for the 'small sections' problem, small sections can help organise the material and encourage contributions on the sections when editors notice the paucity of material on the relevant subtopic. Not to be argumentative, I really don't think we need an edit war over this article, but I think my edit was pretty worthwhile or I wouldn't have made it. If you don't like my contrib, edit it away as you have done. Eventually the article will be better. I'll work on something else for a while. Maybe you will join me in allowing the article to progress by abstaining from contributions to it for a few days, then it may not feel like too much too fast, or that you are trying to own the article Comments? User:Pedant 15:32, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
1960s PhotosHi Pedant. I've found some really excellent photos from the '60's by Robert Altman (not the film director, an independent photographer). Here's a link: http://www.altmanphoto.com/Page7.MrSixties.html Many of his photos capture the remarkable spirit of that time. In "The Sixties--Part 3" there is one photo called "How Do!" which impressed me. For me it conveys the remarkable generosity of spirit that prevailed, along with the tendency towards outlandish, good-natured dress and the inclusion of children. I tried to e-mail him to see if he might grant permission to use one, or more, of his photos, many of which are quite beautiful--so far no response. Please let me know what you think. Thanks. Founders4 06:44, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
We don't get to decide what a hippie is or who was a hippie; that is pretty well established. I agree that five out of ten are war protest photos. I am not advocating the elimination of the anti-war issue from the "Hippie" article, and there should be a good war protest photo. But what about the other five? You seem to want to dismiss the other currents of what the people called "hippies" became. All I am saying is that these currents developed pretty much simultaneously, and they all had relevance. The "How Do!" photo appealed to me because it was so human. Hey, how come I can be inclusive of your viewpoint, but you want to dismiss mine?! Pedantic indeed. BTW, THERE CAN BE MORE THAN ONE PHOTO! It's not what "we want pics of hippies doing." It's "Let's show pics of what hippies were doing." Here's what Allen Cohen (founder of the San Francisco Oracle, and certainly a prime mover) wrote: A New Look at the Summer of Love by Allen Cohen Yes, it is 35 years ago since San Francisco's biggest concern was how many of America's youth, now known as baby boomers, would descend upon the Haight Ashbury in search of the holy grail of sex, drugs and rock and roll. In the spring of '67 one of the members of the Board of Supervisors considering whether to allow the expected hoards to sleep in Golden Gate Park said, "Would you let thousands of whores waiting on the other side of the Bay Bridge into San Francisco." Of course, in the Haight Ashbury we referred to this holy grail as free love, expanded consciousness and the ecstatic experience. We looked upon that summer as the beginning of a children's crusade that would save America and the world from the ravages of war, and the inner anger that brings it forth, and materialism. We had already identified our lives with the world as a political and social entity, and the planet as a unified environment, an earth household. Love, we believed, would replace fear and small communal groups would replace the patriarchal family and mass alienation. There were two aspects to the experience of the 60s: the resistance to the war, and the psychedelic experience, personified as political activists and hippies. For the most part these two vectors overlapped in the same individuals, so that many of those who actively resisted the Vietnam war had used LSD and smoked marijuana. As a society we have tried to understand the sixties mostly as political resistance to the war, but have mostly ignored and denied the changes in values and culture brought about by psychedelic experiences. It is difficult to estimate how many people used LSD between 1965 and 1975 when the war finally ended. One chemist, who wasn't as productive as some, told me he produced and sold seven million doses. My off the cuff estimate would be that from 10 to 30 million people took LSD on the average of six times. "Tripping" was common in every area of society from the wealthy and politically powerful to the arts, sciences and media. LSD was trendy, exotic, ecstatic, messianic and dangerous. It promised psychological healing and spiritual transcendence and often delivered. It should be acknowledged that it could also cause pain ("bad trips") and psychotic breaks, and even suicides, and in the case of the Manson Family, it was an accomplice to murder. There was an aura of living dangerously on a psychological frontier that was part of its mystique. But given the amount of its use, I would say it was the one of our least destructive national obsessions. Why did so many people take this dangerous voyage? What have been its effects? To understand this we have to reconsider the Haight Ashbury, the Hippies and the Summer of Love. The predominant feeling among the Hippies from about 1965 through the summer of '67 was that they were 'agents and witnesses of a dawning of a new age. An age in which the warrior spirit, that had vaulted western man to the domination and potential destruction of creation, would be dissolved in the spiritual transcendence of the saint. Ghandi and Martin Luther King were our heroes and we had turned to the rich heritage of Asian mysticism and metaphysics for our inspiration and our practice. We leaped across oceans and through time to pre-Christian mythologies like the American Indian, the Egyptian and the occult and pagan philosophies of Europe. We studied with Buddhists and Indian gurus, native shamans, witches and yogis. We turned from Aristotelian and Christian dualism to the four pronged logic of Vedanta philosophy. We studied the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching, Alan Watt's books on Zen Buddhism, Black Elk’s visions and Hermann Hesse's novels, especially Siddhartha. We wouldn't leave the house without consulting the I Ching, or our Tarot cards or our astrological charts. Were we being naive or superstitious? No, I think this was the most important and long lasting aspect of the 60s despite the backlash of the 80s.and 90s. It was the beginning of a renaissance in thought and culture similar to the Renaissance that brought Greek and Roman images and ideas back to Europe in the middle ages. Ideas that eventually led to the end of the domination of the Catholic Church, the rise of the nation state, the rebirth of democracy and the development of science. We were becoming world citizens. Peace and love weren't just slogans but states of mind and experiences that we were living and bearing witness to. Living in harmony with the earth was an ideal that we felt and perceived as real experience. We were bringing forth a second Renaissance that would change human culture. In the face of the Cold War and nuclear weapons these changes in philosophical and spiritual orientation would slowly displace the Warrior Spirit and bring us to a new stage of evolution. The transformation of the inner warrior has had its outer effect in the end of the Cold War. Gorbachev said to an American reporter, "I'm going to do a terrible thing to you. I'm going to take your enemy from you." The Summer of Love was the peak of the Haight Ashbury experience. Over 100,000 youth came to the Haight. Hoards of reporters, movie makers, FBI agents, undercover police, drug addicts, provocateurs, Mafioso and about 100,000 more tourists to watch them all followed in their wake. It was chaotic and wonderful and "heavy" as we used to say, and the experience was shared and spread throughout the world. The police and Tac Squad raided the street every weekend gradually driving most of the originators to all parts of the world to plant the seeds of change. The process of cultural liberation began in the seventies with the conscious drive for Women's' Liberation and Gay Liberation and the Black Liberation movement, so brutally feared and attacked by the CIA and FBI. Yes, political reaction set in, but that didn't stop the new ideas from spreading. We have seen the rise of psychological insight, alternative medicine, and spiritual values and practices in the New Age Movement. The tremendous interest in ecology and whole planet thinking began then, and the continuing call to the young to rebellion and awakening, through the liberating effect of rock and roll music in all its permutations emanated from the Sixties. The beginnings of the computer revolution also has its roots firmly in the sixties Many of the founders of the desktop computer had their minds altered by the use of psychedelic drugs. Their revolt against the elitism of the mainframe paralleled the “distrust authority” attitude of the hippies and the anti-war movement. Their minds had been moved by the “language of light.” In the eighties the new ideas and values spread to Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and even China. The deeper meanings of Peace, Love and Community spread through the universality of the music, and the ideas of the pilgrims that had experienced or been influenced by the cauldron of the Sixties. In Prague, Chekoslovakia during the peaceful revolution there, John Lennon's "Imagine" was sung by 200,000 people as they sung the Communist dictatorship down. Esalen Institute had been doing exchanges and training in the former Soviet Union since the Seventies. In Tianamen Square the Chinese students played Beatles' and Rolling Stones' music over loud speakers. Most recently the students marching in the streets of Belgrade against the Milosevic dictatorship were giving flowers to the soldiers standing in their path, as we had done at the Pentagon in 1967. As we approach the millennium, the wave of peace, this eternal yearning of the soul, continues to sweep over the world. Age old rivalries and hatreds and injustices are dissolving. Sometimes the pain heightens before the medicine of mediation and peace can be applied. But things definitely are a-changin' between the Palestinians and Jews, the Muslims and Croats and Serbs, the many colored people of South Africa, and even the British and Irish. As we had predicted, the Sixties generation has entered the White House but with so many forces pulling at its skirts that too much has been compromised to the attacks and resistance of the right wing and reaction has set in like a fog bank. In the rottenness and corruption of the political system and its control by corporate interests and Christian fundamentalism there seems to be a return to the 19th century. But it can only be a brief reflex reaction to the tremendous forces of change that are beginning to transform the world. A new generation of youth are trance dancing in floating laser illuminated warehouse dances called Raves in San Francisco and Acid House and Acid Jazz in England. There is a mood of change that again threatens to overturn the reactionary and puritanical grip on American culture perpetrated by corporate power and religious fundamentalism. The gap between the rich and the poor increases and Corporate arrogance loots the middle class. But the Era of Compassion born in the Sixties, and repressed in the Eighties and crucified in the 90s may be ready to be reborn into the forefront of American culture. Open the door the future is coming through! copyright 1995 Allen Cohen
(I highlighted some of the text above, please look it over. It seems to agree with my proposed sentence re: military-industrial complex and antiwar as genesis for hippie movement) I'll leave that text there for a short time, but it's a copyvio and could be speedily deleted on sight at any editor's whim, since it's on my talk page I probably should be the one to do it. Let me know when you are done with re-reading it
LSD isn't it. Thousands of hippies took LSD prior to it being banned in 67, but there were millions of hippies by then. I won't deny that drugs were used, for fun and for consciousness expansion both, but they were not what engendered the hippies, merely tools and toys they used. Some say that the use of LSD was actually a result of the CIA trying to dilute the power of what was originally a political movement... I don't make that claim but would not exclude anything from reliable reference material. It wasn't free love, and sex that movement began decades prior to the hippie movemement, and the Summer of Love took until 1967 to kick off... and when you think about the slogans involved, do you think "why don't we do it in the road" or "make love not war" ? Which hand gesture do you recognise as iconic of that era, the one using a single finger or the one using two? Or the Clenched fist ? No, I don't want to exclude ideas, or really care what pictures are included, but I think it is certain that the origins of the hippie movement (which is that one sentence you object to) "They believed that corrupt government and corporate industrial greed had combined to form a souless and inhumane military-industrial complex, and that traditional morals had gone askew." were absolutely and primarily rooted in a backlash/rebellion against corporate greed combined with corrupted government which spawned, as it has continued to spawn, wars for profit against people who do not threaten the US. I really honestly think that the sentence you deleted says that succinctly and accurately. You and I were both there, we both know how it was in those days, but our memories and experiences are original research and rather than arguing, we should find reference materials for citations. I feel that the reference sources will support the assertion that the movement began as a rebellion against the military industrial complex, which was most strongly expressed as against war in genreal and the vietnam war in particular. I'm stuck on that unless I'm shown references to contradict it. Any photos could be added, but since there were so many hippies, one can find photos of hippies doing anything. So I suggest that we look for public domain pics of hippies doing representative hippie things. Just because we are talking about the idea of "Hippie". A relatively low percentage of hippies played guitars, but almost universally hippies enjoyed music and dancing for instance, so I think photos of guitarists are not preferable to photos of dancing hippies. Relatively few hippies at the beginning took LSD, but many sought avenues of raising their consciousness and spiritual awareness. So for instance a cluster of photos of hippies enjoying music, or in activities related to consciousness-raising would be useful... but hippies protesting war would be vital. I think if one has a stack of hippie photos, and throws out the war protest photos, one would see that the discard pile becomes huge. While I do agree that articles are better with pictures, what makes an article even better than having pictures is having the article be accurately written, well sourced and verifiably referenced. ps:I like the pic at the top of the article with the groovin hippies, but it's got an attribution clause so we can do better I think. I think it is pretty good for a more modern image, but we can find earlier and better ones I think. User:Pedant 18:29, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
new section 1I agree, the new material is poorly written unsourced, POV on top of POV and ungrammatical as well as being difficult to parse. I also don't want to mess with the article until this latest wave of carefree editing stops. I take the encyclopedia very seriously, but I also know that the best way to consensus is not to have deeply-held beliefs. Since I have deeply-held beliefs, I often wait fro consensus to massage an article into a fairly suitable form, and then make minor edits to correct problems rather than major ones. Our conflict stems from a major edit, right? Alternatively, I will start at the beginning, continue until I come to the end and then stop (apologies to Lewis Carroll). Here I am at the beginning... Please read all of this carefully with your open mind, I know it's long, but it's thorough. Yes, I think we do substantially agree. My main stance, what we are in conflict over is that 1) we need a statement early in the piece about 'who it is we are talking about' as hippies are widely misunderstood. Even by hippies. 2)We need the hippie origin story, in every good article, the origin and evolution of whatever-the-article-is-about is defined or at least roughly alluded to 3)When talking about hippies, at least in the first part of the article, it needs to be the early hippies/original hippies/ whatever you want to call them... before the media confused America about who they were and what they stood for. Very early on, 'the hippie lifestyle -- or at least the media promoted version of it -- was adopted (and changed) by others, who were then called hippies, lifestyle hippies had different things that held them together... 4) and most important as I see it is that the original hippies all had at least one thing in common, a distrust of the Establishment, the Man, corporate media and an opposition to warfare in general, particularly the Vietnam War. Many of the original hippies were ex-soldiers, many were relatives... The sentence I most object to is: "Many people who embraced the hippie lifestyle believed that the government was corrupt, that corporate industry was souless and greedy, that traditional morals were askew, and that war was inhumane. " "Many" is a weasel word, I'd like to remove it from the encyclopedia entirely, with very few exceptions. the "hippie lifestyle" is a nebulous concept, no prior description, hippie lifestyle is to a great extent a media fiction, an invention, the people who were originally described as hippies were a diverse group vis a vis 'lifestyle' and I think 'hippie belief' is a better handle on hippies than their lifestyle. the subject is hippie -- should not be 'people who embraced the hippie lifestyle' as they do not define hippie, they merely 'joined a lifestyle' -- we can discuss later hippies later, but what a hippie was was defined by the first gatherings of people who were labelled as 'hippies'. "the government" is POV and implies a specific government is being referred to, the US govt. but it was not merely the US govt. and not the govt. by itself in a vacuum ... "government was corrupt" can imply that it was only then that they thought it was corrupt, rather it was that government institutions worldwide had become corrupted by corporate interests, lobbying and cronyism... pork barrel politics as they used to say "that corporate industry was souless and greedy" separates the corporate influence from the govt. influence. Corporations are by legal definition soulless. By their nature and by design corporations are greedy, with very few rare exceptions. By saying that hippies believed this, it makes a trivial point, and misses that 'the establishment' is more than just corporate and government -- rather it is the combination of the two, sometimes referred to correctly but not as usefully as fascism. (this is what Ike warned us twice about: the military-industrial complex, or as he first wrote the phrase, "the military-industrial-prison complex") I wouldn't generalise it by saying "Hippies were antifascists." Though true, it doesn't lend to the understanding of the forces involved. "traditional morals were askew" implies that it was only then that they were askew, and implies as well that hippies were amoral, which they were not, see how many hippies were Friends (quakers) as well. My sentence, that I think is a better substitute for "Many people who embraced the hippie lifestyle believed that the government was corrupt, that corporate industry was souless and greedy, that traditional morals were askew, and that war was inhumane. " is "They believed that corrupt government and corporate industrial greed had combined to form a souless and inhumane military-industrial complex, and that traditional morals had gone askew." (sequitur to "Many of the original hippies..." To repeat what I said before about this: ...the beliefs created the hippies, not the other way around. It was the shared beliefs that brought people together in the streets, and only then... (were they a group that was) ...labeled by the industrial/corporate press as hippies. Opposition to the war was the number one core belief shared by those that later began to be labelled as hippies. I do not want to exclude all or any of what hippies were or still are. I just want to include what seems evident to me, and Allen Cohen, Ken Babbs, David Ginsberg, Wavy Gravy, Abbey Hoffman, Ken Kesey, Phil Lesh, Neil Young, Timothy Leary, Tenzin Gyatso, Noam Chomsky and virtually any reference which shows credible research -- that the people who were first called the hippies shared one core belief, which I describe as: They believed that corrupt government and corporate industrial greed had combined to form a souless and inhumane military-industrial complex... summary, hippies started as an antiwar movement as early as 1959, (precursed of course by many other antiwar/antifascist movements as well as 'renaissances' of art and social sciences, seekers of liberty etc..) (even the ones who were not against the vietnam war per se shared the belief that government run by industry is unAmerican and undesirable.) I'm sure you understand this, since you support the 'Iraq war' but don't support corruption of government or fascism. As a fellow veteran, I'd bet you also don't support privatisation of traditional military roles either. User:Pedant 21:53, 25 August 2006 (UTC) new section 2
P.S. You referred to me as "a fellow veteran." Just to clarify, I have never served in the military. I do agree, though, that military roles should not be privatized. Founders4 00:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC) Hmmm... I misunderstood something I read at one point, and thought you were a former marine. No matter, sorry I was mistaken. Are you aware that private corporations are building hardened military bases, right now, in Iraq... military bases for the permanent use of civilian contractors? If you aren't, and are interested, I can turn you on to some info... you might not end up supporting the Iraq war afterward though, so if it's a stance you cherish, I won't. ok, on to your edit. It is long, and maybe we could shorten it without weakening it too much. Let's work on it together for a few evolutions and see what we can consense on by ourselves, and then offer it in its best form to the talk page on hippie. Mostly I think it's correct, let's reference it thoroughly before we submit it, so we can back it to the hilt, ok? Meanwhile, and just off the top of my head, there's that "especially" again. can we substitute "such as" for "especially when it came to"? shorter and less emphasis, implies they wanted government out of the private parts of their lives... and for "infinitely greedy corporate industry, served by corporate media" maybe we could use "corporate industry, driven by greed and served by corporate media" to remove the superlative 'infinitely' which could be seen as POV pushing also cherished instead of loved, shows unwillingness to part with their rights... subbed rights for liberty, liberty connotes a privelege given, rights are inherent... hell, here's the whole thing as I would edit your paragraphs, I edited for crispness and brevity, and think an Eisenhauer quote might work well at the end. Also added 'emerging' to show that at that time the mil/ind/complex was a new concept, and not yet the thing it is today... and 'dawning' re Vietnam to show that these were beliefs held quite early in the history of hippies, and the date 1961 to place Ike's speech in histroical context, showing that this paragraph represents the period beginning 1959 (first americans dead in vietnam) through 1961 and shortly thereafter (when Ike's speech was in recent memory (without trying to narrow down when hippies started, and I think the next para. could well include the material about antecedents which occurs much too late in the article for me... while I quite like your paragraphs, I think these are just a touch more what I think the article needs to get it started right. I think we could both be proud of this version:
The last sentence changed to reflect the connection between the earlier concepts and the terminology of 'the establishment' etc.. It's late and I am probably offline until sunday night, but let's really polish this section to gemlike clarity, reference it and try to finish Monday-ish? Thanks for taking the time this article deserves to get it right. If it's really really right, it won't change so drastically, which I hate to see happen to a good article... Like I say at the bottom of my user page, I like things that are really true and not just almost true. Thanks for your patience and devotion to this deserving article. User:Pedant 06:31, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
New section 3Hi Pedant. Thought I'd post this in full so as not to lose it. I very much appreciate your willingness to engage in what has become a rather intense effort to write something that is "true, not just partly true." Our combined efforts have created something that, I believe, neither of us working alone could have accomplished. I think we may have arrived. More comments soon.Founders4 22:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)  Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, is a term commonly used to refer to some of the disaffected youth of the 1960s and early 1970s. Hippies were part of a countercultural movement that initially surfaced on United States college campuses, then moved beyond academic settings to most major cities in the United States, Canada, Britain, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand. To a lesser extent hippie influence was felt worldwide, particularly in Eastern Europe, Mexico and Japan. The word "hippie" was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen, who is also credited as among the first to use the words "beatnik" and "yuppie". [1] The roots of the hippie movement are variously dated to the back-to-nature movement that surfaced in Europe during the nineteenth century, to the naturalist movements of late eighteenth-century Europe, or even to the early Essenes who lived around the time of Christ. The cherished hippie notions of peace, love, compassion and human fellowship are values that Christ and many other visionaries lived by. Hippies did not create a cohesive political or social movement with well-defined leaders and manifestos. Rather the hippie ethos evolved as a social manifestation of 1960s zeitgeist in an interactive play between leaders and followers. In 1961, President Eisenhower had warned that the Cold War “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry” had led to the formation of a “military-industrial complex” that might come to exert “unwarranted influence…in the councils of government.”[2] Hippies took this warning to heart and believed that corporate industry, driven by greed and served by corporate media, had corrupted government. They saw the dawning of the Vietnam War as a fulfillment of Eisenhower’s warning, and they believed that government cannot be trusted. Hippies also cherished personal liberty and sought freedom from governmental interference in their private lives—in particular the legislation of sexual morality and prohibitions against psychoactive drugs. They were ethical libertarians and believed that the Ninth and Tenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution guarantee the rights of individual citizens to do as they wish with their own persons and property, as long as they do not infringe on the same rights of others.[3] Elements of Romanticism and Transcendentalist philosophy are evident in hippie music, prose and other artistic expressions. Hippies came to feel that in some sense a monolithic entity had emerged—composed of corporate industry, corporate media, the military and government—that exercised undue power over their lives. They often referred to this monolithic entity as The Establishment, Big Brother, or The Man. Hippie opposition to The Establishment traveled worldwide through music and the other creative arts. Moving beyond unconventional attire, long hair for both genders, facial hair for men, and rebellion against long-established institutions, hippies sought to champion and implement change. They tended to express their desire for change by renouncing the Vietnam War, corporate influence, and consumerism; by criticizing Western middle class values; by embracing aspects of non-Judeo-Christian religious cultures (including much Eastern philosophy); and by adopting nomadic lifestyles. They also embraced the Civil Rights movement, the expansion of free speech, sexual liberation, interracial dating, intentional community, free love, recreational drug use, simple living, holistic health, environmental consciousness, and alternative technology. The 21st century has brought with it a neo-hippie movement, with an ethos similar to that of the original hippies.
Hwacha case (pending reopening)Hi Pendant, as you probably know, another user is causing some trouble at Hwacha article by "missunderstanding on his favor" wikipedia policies about what is encyclopedic and what is not, and i am really aware if a voting process is valid on this case?, is it?. And, does the article needs to pass through the tedious process of a vote on whether delete or keep a section, all the time, over and over again?, i really would appreciate if you reopen the case, because i believe user:OrbitOne is exagerating things at all. I agree with your position about Wikipedia is not paper and actually the section about games is just a paragraph (about three or four lines in a reduced size) and not a full listing of games such as in other articles. As a matter of numbers (topic which i like very much because i am a science student), i've counted the number of words; Microsoft Word gave 1368 words on that document except for the image captions and notes at the bottom of the page and only 64 (words) to the section related to the games and gave about 4.68 % of the whole article only to references in games. Considered this information and the poor based OrbitOne arguments i think this vote is quite useless, do you think so?, I would appreciate very kindly your soon response, Cheers, --HappyApple 10:23, 26 August 2006 (UTC) HwachaI can accept you will act as HappyApple's advocate, but let me make things clear. I will not resort to mud slinging and I request you do the same. A statement you made was inappropriate and had little to do with policy regarding the section in question. Here is the section in question.
Although unorthadox, I wished to meet HappyApple in a middle ground, so he would not feel the previous vote was invalidated by any means. However, to claim I resorted to any underhanded or misleading tactics is edging uncivility. Please mind what you say in the future. We both wish to reach a fair end to this dispute. --OrbitOne [Talk|Babel] 23:01, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Re thisNever become a politician. --David Mestel(Talk) 05:26, 27 August 2006 (UTC) HappyApple's contact
In fact i believe the short four-to-five lines paragraph which i wrote it was intended to show casual readers, examples of where this machine has been used or showed. Finally, i would appreciate (again) if you can explain me more about what i should do in order formally get this dispute settled down, thank again, Cheers, :-) HappyApple 18:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC) Zippie PicnicThanks very much for the advice Pedant. As you've probably guessed I'm a Wikipedia newbie. I hope I'm putting this comment in the right place. I have made the changes you suggested and all's now well. User:Wizardprank Ah - I came across this one while randompaging, and as it said it was a container of magic I just tagged it with magic. Thanks for the correction. --Firien § 09:44, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Zippie Picnic et alHi Pedant, and thanks for all the advice. I have two queries if you have time - Firstly, where do I put the Wizardprank 11:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC) signature when I'm editing? and secondly, can you help me sort out a problem on my Encyclopaedia Psychedelica entry. I just cannot get a space to appear before the word "Drop in" on the fifth line. Many thanks. Wizardprank 11:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC) Want to talk some more?Hi Pedant. Now that we have engaged so intensely in an editing exercise, I am curious about who you are beyond this venue. I've talked a bit about myself; wonder if you might like to share some of your background. I have an e-mail I use for this sort of correspondence: kensingtonguy4@yahoo.com. Looking forward to hearing from you if you feel so inclined. Founders4 19:06, 28 August 2006 (UTC) StuffHi again most valued mentor. Thanks for all the patient advice. I think I'm getting the hang of it. Feel free to link to my page if you wish. I don't have a digital copy of SHC but I could make one! I've digitised three of the others so why not. I warn you it looks rather dated cos we've all got used to seeing fractals now - but when it was new it was startling. When I've got an AVI or SVCD I'll be pleased to get you a copy as a thank you. Wizardprank 19:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC) On references...Hello there! I noticed your request on the To-Do list. The references tags (<ref>...</ref>) only tell the software to accumulate the footnotes. They are actually displayed with the <references/> tag, which I've added here. Cheers and happy editing! :-) Misza13 21:06, 29 August 2006 (UTC) WizardprankHi. I saw your kindness and openness on Wizardprank's talk page. I would like to recognize you with this:
PS: I like what you did on your userpage. I actually checked my messages!!!--Edtalk c E 01:41, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
WolofI've looked around Pedant and don't see evidence of lack of acceptance with regard to the professor's work. There may be less SUPPORT than you would like to see, but I have found no evidence of actual OBJECTIONS to his conclusions. You do seem to kinda have it in for the guy and his Wolof stuff :-). To me it seems interesting, and pretty harmless. Founders4 04:59, 30 August 2006 (UTC) (continued from User talk:Founders4: Not what is on the hippie page, what is in his lesson, the link in the footnote about Wolof language:
Well, being born in Texas, cowboy lingo used to be a hobby of mine. I can say right off the tip of my boot that it is not 'doggies' but 'dogies' that he is referring to (one serious error for a linguist but not fatal), a dogie is a stray, or orphan calf. As I recall, the widest acceptance of the origin is that dogie is a shortening of 'dough gut' for the swollen belly a calf would get, when it started grazing too early, its digestive system would be unprepared for grass, having lost its mother before it was time to stop drinking milk... belly would swell like rising sourdough. This professor however states as a fact that it comes from the Wolof "kidogo" for something small. (second error, an assertion as fact of something unsupported by apparently any other linguist in the world, maybe it's true, but no evidence, a linguist should be more careful with how he states such an assertion, third, assuming as given that kidogo is the origin of dogie, why would it not mean any calf rather than just orphan calves?) Then there's buckaroo, which he asserts comes from mbakara, for white man, and no mention that the generally accepted etymology is: vaca (cow) + ero (roughly tranlateable as 'doer' or 'person associated with' or 'worker with') = vaquero (cowboy) > buckaroo. Any cowboy, not just white ones. In the same way la riata (the rope) became lariat, and fandango became fandango without any change at all. A whole lot of words jumped the border with Texas cowboys, since Tejas was originally Mexican, and lots and lots of cowboys were Mexican, and the border wasn't all that well defined. In my book, the Wolof origin of at least dogie and buckaroo is pretty much nailed to the counter, but I'm willing to have an open mind, and I haven't tagged it as nonfactual or anything yet. It's true though, that I pretty much don't accept the reference as authoritative, because right in the referenced text are at least those two highly questionable if not outright false assertions. However, all I did was move the text warning (not generally accepted by linguists) to above the section rather than below it, in the same way a spoiler warning goes before the spoiler. I'm willing to leave the text in the article pending a good refutation, but I pretty much insist that it not be put out there as if it were a 'generally accepted known fact'. Additionally, about half of those terms seem to me to have very little to do with the subject "hippie" and so aren't really relevant. I'm in favor of trimming the list, but what I'd prefer is to move most of it to a separate article, with or without a summary paragraph at Hippie. But I am not going to do that until I find some more info... it goes altogether, it stays altogether, a sterner and more specific warning is added, the existing warning is removed, it gets its own article, it gets trimmed... something needs to be done there, as it sticks out like an infected elbow. The professor (who may or may not exist) Joseph E. Holloway, according to that website, works at Cal. State, Northridge (again, according to that article)... and as it stands, I simply do not accept his credentials or research, or degree, or the 'fact' that he works at CSUN, at face value, based on the content of one web page. I don't have it in for him, I just want to fact-check it some before I am willing to put it to bed. Since CSUN is an easy bike ride from here, first chance I get, I'll ask some fellow professors about him, assuming he exists, and try to get a few moments of his time to nail down his sources, and get his response on what to me seems to be the accepted etymology of dogie and buckaroo... Bottom line is, I'm working on the article, if I stop working on it, and leave that there, and it turns out to be untrue, my reputation as a good editor suffers, and I don't think the article stands a chance of becoming featured artcle quality without a better reference than one that seems to have blatant errors in it. Needs more support, as it's not widely known, or it needs removal as nonfactual, or it needs a warning that it's not a widely held opinion among language experts... Do you get what I'm aiming for? Please don't bang on me for just moving the 'not widely held opinion warning' to before the questionable text... I didn't write it, I just moved it. uhhh... unless I did write it, which I don't recall, and I'd hate to have to run down who did, because it doesn't really matter who wrote either the questionable text or the warning. I'll see if I can get a few minutes with Dr. Holloway, and see what he has to say. Maybe he can point me at an additional reference and we can cite that, if it's true I have no problem, or even if it's seriously considered by academia as being true, that would be swell. As it stands I'm dubious of the text and it's single reference. dang, I went and wrote a book, when a short note would do. Please forgive me. User:Pedant 07:28, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
re:BarnstarI don't give out barnstars left and right as some do, so I hope that you value this as a genuine appreciation of your genuinely excellent and valuable work in recent weeks, including your efforts to keep on top of things during a busy period in your 'real life'. Thank you very much.User:Pedant 21:22, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
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DoneSee User:Pedant/hereyago. Oh, and if you move it to a better name, let me know and I'll delete the user page. Steve block Talk 23:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC) |
