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Originally posted by Joe Sixpack
Okay, I may have added to the confusion there.
I guess it all depends on how you define hippy doesn't it? According to conservatives anyone who protests anything that the majority are in favour of is a hippy. I guess that is what i was referring to... because as far as I was concerned that was the frame of reference. I should have been more specific.
I certainly don't believe all hippies are free thinkers though many might be. I don't even know how many "hippies" would label themselves that way. These days that seems to be a derogatory label used by conservatives in an attempt to discredit someones views. A true free thinker lets nobody tell him what to believe... be that government, media, religion... any organisation.
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Ok. I'll agree with you there.
I personally don't like labels. Be it "hippie" or "conservative". I just don't see how any one person can share all the same views of another. There's things that I certainly don't agree with that others who call themselves conservatives do, and things that so-called hippies say that I do agree with. I wouldn't call myself a true free thinker either though, because I am influenced by a lot of different things in my life.
I tend to think most people are though. Unless they live in the woods and don't have TV or radio or the web.
