I always consider hippies more akin to libertarians than Communists - that is, a focus on their own benefit. Make myself comfortable with no social or future planning.
Hippie "activism" is what leads to movements like Occupy, and Extinction Rebellion. No planning, no goals, just performative
Yeah the whole "mindfulness" and "power of positive thinking" bullshit has just become a bunch of self-help grifters, pseudo-spiritual grifters and basically the new age equivalent of faith healers, and all of it is a product of having the privilege to indulge in that shit while having zero materialist analysis of the societal ills they once were ostensibly trying to overcome
Occupy was like one activist group's project to get class back into the discourse. They never expected it to get picked up by so many places so quickly. There was no way it could have been planned lol. Its lack of planning wasn't the result of a hippy cultural deficiency
I always consider hippies more akin to libertarians than Communists - that is, a focus on their own benefit. Make myself comfortable with no social or future planning.
Hippie "activism" is what leads to movements like Occupy, and Extinction Rebellion. No planning, no goals, just performative
Yeah the whole "mindfulness" and "power of positive thinking" bullshit has just become a bunch of self-help grifters, pseudo-spiritual grifters and basically the new age equivalent of faith healers, and all of it is a product of having the privilege to indulge in that shit while having zero materialist analysis of the societal ills they once were ostensibly trying to overcome
Occupy was like one activist group's project to get class back into the discourse. They never expected it to get picked up by so many places so quickly. There was no way it could have been planned lol. Its lack of planning wasn't the result of a hippy cultural deficiency