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Originally Posted by Torn Curtain
You can't place on the same level beatniks (who are individualists) and hippies (who have a - stupid - sense of community).
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Whoo...that's a complex issue: At what point and under what circumstances did 'hippie' branch off from 'beat'? Is 'beat' primarily right-wing/social libertarian and individualist, while 'hippie' is intrinsically left-wing/restrictive and socialist? I don't think I want to visit those issues right now!--although they have been sitting there contentiously in the back of my mind since high school!