Quote: (07-11-2018 07:10 PM)The Catalyst Wrote:
From what I've noticed, hippies want to go back to a more natural way of living, with smaller groups, tribes, etc. They also tend to distrust authority/big government. Also preaching non-violence, in contrast to the SJWs/antifa.
There's also the fact that the Left dominates "science" and hippy-ism rejects it.
Shouldn't the right wing have more of a "hippy" element? I've read it's K to be conformist, is that really that big a deal?
The name for the right wing's "hippy" element - that is, a stronger belief in conservation, being closer to nature, and so on - was the Sierra Club. Formed 1892, one of America's most red-pill Presidents, Teddy Roosevelt, was one of its earliest patrons. Yosemite National Park exists because of the Sierra Club.
Unfortunately, it veered hard left in the sixties, same time the Left infiltrated America's culture and decided living life in a drug-induced haze while banging everything in sight was a better group to support environmental causes than the Right. It has been, in essence, completely compromised since at least the 1970s. Particularly hilarious was its stance on immigration: for a while it looked like Sierra would come out and oppose immigration on the basis it was going to overpopulate the US, but unsurpisingly that movement was drowned by any number of leftie activists joining it.
Insofar as hippies seem to be interested in "more natural" ways of living, it doesn't include doing much to actually earn it. For the most part, the movement borrowed bits of other cultures in standard narcissistic form rather than try to work out things within its own culture. Its views on sexuality and drugs are entirely wrong, and for the most part it wants things done in a more "natural" way without recognising or acknowledging that, for the most part, nature sucks.
Natural childbirth, for example: the real reason human lifespans have grown exponentially in the past hundred years or so is because of dumb averages weighted down by the fact stillbirth in the West is comparatively rare. That, in turn, is mainly because medical science might suck at a lot of things, but it doesn't suck at bringing healthy babies into the world. Hippies - and there are a lot of them particularly in "natural childbirth" or homebirth movements - don't see that or recognise it. The outcomes are, simply put, many times superior under medical supervision for a birth than under natural childbirth, homebirth, or the insanity of water birth. The law of large numbers on this one won out decades ago, except for these fuckwits who, as I said, want to Get Back To Nature without accepting that nature is brutally dangerous and entirely indifferent to human survival.
Remissas, discite, vivet.
God save us from people who mean well. -storm