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#51 Caffeine_Trip
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You blame the hippies? Wrong. Try again.
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#52 Account_27
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1940's............. without racism? Racism was a lot worse back then. Can't agree on that part Loose women........ yeah that part is true.
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#53 boyblob
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OK.... there are many things that are not good in society but you would be fooling yourself if you said things weren't getting better.

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#54 mattmaul5488
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Yeah,I hate hippies too....
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#55 MagnumPI
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If you refuse to be apart of society, surely that means you insist on being in it.dommeus

  You deserve a touche for that. I missed that.

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#56 Caffeine_Trip
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Yeah,I hate hippies too....mattmaul5488
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.
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#57 mattmaul5488
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[QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....Caffeine_Trip
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.

eehh,the peace part is fine..but the love part pisses me off...Plus I don't like vegetarians and hippies are that...I guess overall I hate them because they try and make you  granola monkeys like them...

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#58 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism,.Def_Jef88
wait... what?



Hehe, someone doesn't know his history. :roll:
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#59 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....Caffeine_Trip
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.
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#60 Sgt_Homonculus
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The same accusations (with different reasons) could be levelled at any period of human society. Fear not, before too long you'll become callous like the rest of us, and all those issues will seem less upsetting...:twisted:
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#61 Teh_Law
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[QUOTE="Tolwan"]

[QUOTE="Fortier"]The only way to boycott society would be to die...coastalbarley

Or...destroy society!

thats what i'm talking about!

join the fight club then
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#62 MagnumPI
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[QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....doubutsuteki
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

  Yeah, hippies have their heads up their asses. They are floating around in la-la-land. Life is a rat race. You best prepair to kick people off the ladder, even if that means kicking them square in the teeth. Life is a ladder and to get to the top you must step on other people and knock others off aswell. No such thing as a friend in the real world. No need for friends, business is business.

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#63 lol_waffles
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Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.coastalbarley
Yes, the world if definitely getting "dummer" and "dummer",
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#64 nickmag
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Why don't you join MySpace? There's tonnes of people that are just like you - example video
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#65 MagnumPI
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.lol_waffles
Yes, the world if definitely getting "dummer" and "dummer",

  Does this forum have enough grammar & spelling  nazis?

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#66 the_zero_one
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wow some pent up stuff in here. every ones a politition skrew society so there.
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#67 Darthmatt
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"Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism,"

 Are you sure about that? :?
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#68 PierSkillz
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if you don't want to be apart of society than why are you on gamespot, it's a part of society..
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#69 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"][QUOTE="Tolwan"]

[QUOTE="Fortier"]The only way to boycott society would be to die...Teh_Law

Or...destroy society!

thats what i'm talking about!

join the fight club then



Fight club!! You're on the right track.
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#70 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="doubutsuteki"][QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....MagnumPI

What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

Yeah, hippies have their heads up their asses. They are floating around in la-la-land. Life is a rat race. You best prepair to kick people off the ladder, even if that means kicking them square in the teeth. Life is a ladder and to get to the top you must step on other people and knock others off aswell. No such thing as a friend in the real world. No need for friends, business is business.



But there are other strategies superior to moving out in the country and sewing your own clothes (!). Screw that rat race and that ladder.
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#71 Varese_basic
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Naw no man is an island unless you go to a psy clinic and they tell you a bunch of BS. Look at how the rich take care of their kids. rich=more human.
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#72 AARONRULZ1
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[QUOTE="jm4847"][QUOTE="shadow1988"]life is life, it's gonna change, and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it.doubutsuteki
That's conformity.



Indeed it is, and conformism sucks.

QFT.
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#73 RogerC44
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I see what you mean.
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#74 branketra
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You aren't aware of the classism of the 1940s between the Caucasian Americans, are you? It was worse than nowadays. Also, the internet is a part of a society, believe it or not....whether it's part of the 'main society' in a country or countries....it's obvious where I'm going.
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#75 Norg
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.staindcoldlp

You spelled dumber wrong.

OOOO BURNNN!!!!!!!!!!

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#76 branketra
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Boycotting society IS hippie, so if you are against society I suggest that you take part in it and fight it.
doubutsuteki
The problem with fighting 'the system' from the inside, is that eventually....you'll be fighting yourself.
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#77 LoG-Sacrament
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[QUOTE="aRE-you-AFraid"]wait, you say that there was no racism in the 40's? Study up dude. The 40's were aguably the worst years for all the world.coastalbarley
no i ment i wish we could take society back to the state it was in the 1940s WITHOUT the racism, i know i screwed up typing on that post

besides the racism, the 40's were great! as in the GREAT depression and world war 2. ya...great times. besides, the only way to not be a part of society is to live off the land and be completely self sufficient. if buy/sell something, youre contributing the economy and therefore society. if you steal something, you end up in jail, under the generousity of the taxpayers and therefore part of society. speaking of taxes, you couldnt pay them to be apart from society. then youd go to jail and ive alreaady been over that part.
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#78 Wslacker
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"][QUOTE="aRE-you-AFraid"]wait, you say that there was no racism in the 40's? Study up dude. The 40's were aguably the worst years for all the world.LoG-Sacrament
no i ment i wish we could take society back to the state it was in the 1940s WITHOUT the racism, i know i screwed up typing on that post

besides the racism, the 40's were great! as in the GREAT depression and world war 2. ya...great times. besides, the only way to not be a part of society is to live off the land and be completely self sufficient. if buy/sell something, youre contributing the economy and therefore society. if you steal something, you end up in jail, under the generousity of the taxpayers and therefore part of society. speaking of taxes, you couldnt pay them to be apart from society. then youd go to jail and ive alreaady been over that part.

Someone needs to learn his history.
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#79 LoG-Sacrament
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[QUOTE="LoG-Sacrament"][QUOTE="coastalbarley"][QUOTE="aRE-you-AFraid"]wait, you say that there was no racism in the 40's? Study up dude. The 40's were aguably the worst years for all the world.Wslacker
no i ment i wish we could take society back to the state it was in the 1940s WITHOUT the racism, i know i screwed up typing on that post

besides the racism, the 40's were great! as in the GREAT depression and world war 2. ya...great times. besides, the only way to not be a part of society is to live off the land and be completely self sufficient. if buy/sell something, youre contributing the economy and therefore society. if you steal something, you end up in jail, under the generousity of the taxpayers and therefore part of society. speaking of taxes, you couldnt pay them to be apart from society. then youd go to jail and ive alreaady been over that part.

Someone needs to learn his history.

how so? the great dpression didnt end in america until the beggining of ww2. and we didnt get involved until pearl harbor was bombed in 1941

edit:lol come to think of it, maybe the last comment wasnt directed at me and i shouldnt be so defensive.

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#80 jm4847
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Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism,.coastalbarley
That's not true, ask Michael Richards. He knows a lot about racism back in the good ol' days...
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#81 DisturbedOne436
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lol this guy needs a history lesson
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#82 deactivated-5f9e3c6a83e51
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Society has many perks.  I think you are confusing the "mainstream view / pop culture" with society in general.
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#83 krazykarl0419
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....How old are you? You obviously don't know what you're talking about. Racism has always been around, you talk about people being dumb yet you lack the ability to spell simple words, EVERYONE is a part of society (no matter what you think), and your stereotyping of "hippies" isn't helping anything.
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#84 ice_radon
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Yeah, lets go back to the 30's or 40's where the KKK was still super prevalent from its second rising from the 1890's to the 1920's... Anyways, you prolly should stay shut in considering you dont seem too literate with that whole "dummer" thing... :|
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#85 doubutsuteki
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Boycotting society IS hippie, so if you are against society I suggest that you take part in it and fight it.
BranKetra
The problem with fighting 'the system' from the inside, is that eventually....you'll be fighting yourself.



Uh? Explain please.

Edit: I'm not talking about fighting the system from inside the system as in from within the parliament, if that's what you thought I meant. :wink:
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[QUOTE="staindcoldlp"]

[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.coastalbarley

You spelled dumber wrong.

[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.yermomsboxx
:lol: What bomb shelter are you from?

lol, i ment to be int he 1940s society minus the racism...my bad, and same thing with misspelling dumb wrong......i'm tired...i should have read the post before i posted it

You still have sexism.....and a generally more ignorant socioty.....
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Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.coastalbarley
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#88 eo12601
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1940's...no racism...you kidding? Hate to break it to you, but the world has always been flawed, and will always be flawed, because we, the inhabitaints of it, are flawed ourselves.
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#89 yermomsboxx
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[QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....doubutsuteki
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

However, there are many communes that still exist and function to this day. Likewise, Quakers have been living in a self-sufficient manor for centuries.
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#90 Cyrax-Sektor
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1940's...no racism...you kidding? Hate to break it to you, but the world has always been flawed, and will always be flawed, because we, the inhabitaints of it, are flawed ourselves. eo12601
So true.
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#91 ShaDoW56
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The world is going crazy...what you just notice. Chill out man...and party while you can cause its not going to last long.samurai93745
agreed but im not a partay person sooo :P
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#92 Jhonie_Fklits25
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Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.coastalbarley
I thought I would disagree with you, but, for the most part I agree with you, especially with the loose women part and the men being more respectable part.
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#93 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="doubutsuteki"][QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....yermomsboxx
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

However, there are many communes that still exist and function to this day. Likewise, Quakers have been living in a self-sufficient manor for centuries.



Self-sufficient? They live off a large pile of old capital, and many present day members are capitalists. Richard Nixon was a quaker! I am sure you can imagine what I think about him.
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[QUOTE="yermomsboxx"][QUOTE="doubutsuteki"][QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....doubutsuteki
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

However, there are many communes that still exist and function to this day. Likewise, Quakers have been living in a self-sufficient manor for centuries.



Self-sufficient? They live off a large pile of old capital, and many present day members are capitalists. Richard Nixon was a quaker! I am sure you can imagine what I think about him.

Yes, but these are more recent occurrences. I'm simply saying that there have been "utopian" societies that succeeded (for a time) in history. Some Native American tribes, pre-colonization, might be a better example. I do concede, however, that those types of society would be a near impossibility in today's world, but still a possibility with precedent nonetheless.
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[QUOTE="coastalbarley"]Its not that i'm emo or i'm on some "stay in my apartment type ****" its just everyday the world gets dummer and dummer. I"m not only talking about the scholastic aspect of it, but in their darn publicity stunts....i thouhgt i was gonna be left behind with highschool. I find so many falts with society.....so what i'm saying is boycott society with me. Life needs to go back to the how it was in the 1940s....without racism, when girls werent as loose and men were more respectable. I blame the hippies.staindcoldlp

You spelled dumber wrong.



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You have only a few choices then. 1. Join the army, 2. Become a hobo, 3. Become a rich actor and do whatever you want to "fix" society, 4. Coast through life and hope death is better.
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:lol:

That was a golden post. You're a comedian.
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#98 doubutsuteki
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[QUOTE="doubutsuteki"][QUOTE="yermomsboxx"][QUOTE="doubutsuteki"][QUOTE="Caffeine_Trip"][QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....yermomsboxx
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.



They are naive middle c.lass people with little experience of the harsh reality. They want love, peace and understanding, but fail to see that it is not possible in this society because of the antagonisms inherent to the economic system that is the foundation of this society. Instead of crushing it, they want to escape from it - which is also not possible. Their influence on the counter culture of the 60s and 70s fooled people into believing in a strategy that was (and still is) doomed to fail, and which eventually alienated most people from the whole movement, when these people became older and smarter and realized that the whole hippie thing was a disaster - some of them even went as far as to sympathizing with the right wing as a result of it.

However, there are many communes that still exist and function to this day. Likewise, Quakers have been living in a self-sufficient manor for centuries.



Self-sufficient? They live off a large pile of old capital, and many present day members are capitalists. Richard Nixon was a quaker! I am sure you can imagine what I think about him.

Yes, but these are more recent occurrences. I'm simply saying that there have been "utopian" societies that succeeded (for a time) in history. Some Native American tribes, pre-colonization, might be a better example. I do agree, however, that those types of society would be a near impossibility in today's world.



Yes, there's no way to go back in time.
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#99 coastalbarley
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[QUOTE="mattmaul5488"]Yeah,I hate hippies too....Caffeine_Trip
What's wrong with hippies? All they want is peace and love.

Its not what they wanted, but how the achieved it, by sitting on there butts all day doing lsd among other drugs...thats why i hate hippies, if society was composed of only these people out nation would have been a 3rd world country by now...but woodstock would be going
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*Stands On Soapbox, calls all members of GS*
I hear all this talk about Society being corrupt, and about destroying society, Well, I do belive that this world is coming to a chaotic end, but Behold my friends, this is the time for change, a time to collapse the foundations of this Evil Empire, and From our own ambitions and our owns rightousness, we will not not destroy the society, but demand change, by any means nessassary, for it has been too long since we last declared freedom from the british throne, now let us, from all continents, and in all countries, Communist, Capitalist, Pagan, or Christian, Democratic or Republican, to stand up, put our differences aside, and know that no matter how different we are, this earth is our only home, and wee must do whatever it takes to make it safe and free from oppression, and disease, global warming, or any other threat for our next generations, to stop being so selfish, and start to make changes for the better of all mankind!!!Â