{"id":38940,"date":"2019-07-14T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38940"},"modified":"2019-07-13T08:44:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T12:44:51","slug":"qotd-the-legacy-of-the-original-hippies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/qotd-the-legacy-of-the-original-hippies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The legacy of the original hippies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In my younger days, when I myself wore my hair long and may have dabbled in the occasional Red Dragon, Purple Om and Roobarb ‘n’ Custard, I think I might have been quite surprised to learn that the hippies I idealised at the time \u2014 well, I liked Easy Rider<\/em>, and used to play Jefferson Airplane’s “White Rabbit” more often than was good for me \u2014 in fact shared the same ideological roots as the Hitler Youth.<\/p>\n

Not now I’m older and wiser, I don’t. Beneath the kaftan of every other hippie beats the heart of a fascist \u2014 the intolerance, the zeal, the control-freakery \u2014 and it all stems from that moment, pinpointed in the documentary, when a left-wing activist and Berkeley drop-out named Jerry Rubin had a sudden insight: that there were more hippies than there were radicals.<\/p>\n

The unfortunate result of this was that Rubin and his ilk realised that they could prey like vampires on these fluffy-headed flower children and turn their innocent yearning for peace, love and drug-addled sex into something much more dangerous, whose effects we are ruing to this day.<\/p>\n

All that long hair, those beads, the patchouli, the starry eyes, the psychedelic sounds of the Grateful Dead; they were really just a kandy-kolored, tangerine-flake Trojan Horse for the values \u2014 or rather the anti-values \u2014 that have gone on to make our culture so weak, decadent and vulnerable to destruction by more iron-willed invaders.<\/p>\n

This was, of course, exactly what influential campus thinkers of the time such as German-born cultural Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse wanted. For them, free love, female emancipation, black empowerment, the groovy rejection of authority and pursuit of the self \u2014 all sugar-coated with a great soundtrack and lashings of lovely psychotropics \u2014 were really just a means to an end: the death of the family, the dismantling of the system, and, ultimately the destruction of western civilisation.<\/p>\n

James Delingpole, “Hippies gave us wonderful things, but they left an evil legacy too”, The Spectator<\/em><\/a>, 2017-06-10.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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