Happily Hippie-American rethinks “hippies.” Hippiedom didn’t die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie-American argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedom’s ethnogenesis. We’ll learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped American politics, how the War on Drugs is largely about persecuting Hippie-America and how today’s legalization movement is really about Hippie-America fighting for social equality. Happily Hippie documents the Counterculture’s many accomplishments, including inventing the Personal Computer; it estimates over 30 million Hippie-Americans and shows readers crude demographic maps of Hippie-America. We look at Hippies in philanthropy, Hollywood, sports, various arts, new medicine, the natural-foods industry, the Green movement and around the globe. We’ll see how stereotypes of Hippies echo those of other minorities, explore Hippie self-esteem issues, look at Hippie generational transfer and do some fun media analysis. We’ll also consider the need for a Hippie-American Ethnic Organization and how we might begin one. If you’re Hippie, if you’ve ever been Hippie, read this book. It will change your head; it can change this world.
Why you should read Happily Hippie-American
Let me make an analogy: You know how there are people who make a living by organizing people’s closets for them? Well, in your brain, you have closets. We might call them concepts, paradigms or schemas; in a computer’s memory, they’d be called folders. Each of us has a “hippie” folder in his or her head. And usually, it’s a bit of a mess. That is, our thinking on the matter tends to be confused, unclear, even contradictory. Our closet isn’t organized. With your permission, I am going to reorganize that closet for you; your current clutter is going to be replaced with a clearer understanding of a matter that is, as we will see, of some importance. My goal is to clarify and inspire. You will thank me for this because I will have made your life a little easier in some ways by allowing you to understand the world better. That and because concepts or paradigms are tools, and I will have given you a tool to help you better understand our society and hopefully to guide and heal it.
Those are the benefits for all readers. But for those I consider my primary audience, Countercultural readers, there’s much more. There’s a kind of comfort and security that comes from recognizing and validating your own cultural identity, to understand that by being Hippie, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with you. Hippie identity is ethnicity, and all ethnicity is respectable. You have ethnic/cultural rights. You needn’t apologize for being Hippie; indeed, you have much to be proud of. So, be happily Hippie. This book will help you do that.
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” — Ralph Nader
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