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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"...clearly I was a victim of the drug explosion - a natural street freak, just eating whatever came by."'']]
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4	-> ''"...as long as people are still having promiscuous sex with many anonymous partners without protection while at the same time experimenting with mind-expanding drugs in a consequence free environment, I'll be sound as a pound."''
5	-->-- '''Austin Powers''', ''[[Film/AustinPowers Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery]]''
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7	This index lists tropes about, or related to, the Hippie Movement from TheSixties and [[TheSeventies 70's]].
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9	!! These Tropes are like, far out, man:
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11	[[index]]
12	* BlamingTheMan: The Man is the conservative ruling class of corporations and big government. The Man is the arch-nemesis of all Hippies, man.
13	* BourgeoisBohemian: They may look like hippies, they may ''act'' and dress like hippies, but they certainly don't live like hippies. These upscale urban couples may eat goulash and homemade organic yogurt, but they live in posh condos with fancy kitchens.
14	* CapitalismIsBad: The Hippie movement eschewed the trappings of the modern rat-race business world in order to pursue peace, love, and harmony with nature. Some practiced small-scale capitalism by running small businesses, coming into serious conflict with groups like the Diggers who wanted to eliminate money entirely and to establish a trade and barter system.
15	* {{Commune}}: Much of the younger generation would leave home and congregate on the land to grow their own food. There were both urban and rural communes, some more successful than others, some existing to this day.
16	* {{Cult}}: Some hippie {{commune}}s took too many drugs and took a turn into the fanatical. Just ask [[UsefulNotes/CharlesManson the Manson Family]] and look up "acid fascism".
17	* DirtyCommunists" Hippies' political views tended to lean decidedly to the progressive Left. Some visited communist countries. There were even hippies within the Soviet Union, although they were heavily monitored for their anti-authoritarian stances.
18	* DiscoDan: The tie-dye look (which is actually an early TheSeventies post-hippie style) is very dated, and keeping the colors after it goes out of fashion can make you a real square.
19	* DraftDodging: Hippies were famously anti-war, a lot of their protests being in active defiance against UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar and the draft board -- a perceived death sentence at that time for young working- or middle-class men, especially if Black or Hispanic.
20	* DrinkingTheKoolAid: A stock phrase for going all in on a movement, originating in Creator/KenKesey's use of Kool-Aid spiked with [=LSD=] to initiate people into the counterculture. Later acquired darker connotations due to UsefulNotes/JimJones' use of cyanide-laced [[BrandNameTakeover FlavorAid]] in the mass murder-suicide of the Jonestown {{cult}}.
21	* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Hippie culture had a ''lot'' of overlap with drug culture. Many hippie gatherings were notorious for spiking the beverages with psychoactive substances, or finding some other way for everybody to imbibe pot or LSD.
22	* EruditeStoner: An intellectual hippie who reads poetry and Eastern philosophy while smoking cannabis.
23	* FolkMusic: Saw a resurgence of popularity thanks to the hippies, with the strong appeal of acoustic ThreeChordsAndTheTruth songs about protesting the war and the Man.
24	* FreeLoveFuture: Free Love with many partners was a big part of many hippies' utopian beliefs.
25	* TheGenerationGap: Hippies vs. their square, rigid Parents, who typically work for big business and want to lock their offspring into the marriage-mortgage lifestyle in the suburbs. Or, later in life, the ''opposite'' situation: HippieParents raising budding squares who grow embarrassed and discontent with their peculiar ways.
26	* GranolaGirl: All-natural, idealistic, free-spirited hippie chick.
27	* GRatedStoner: Showing hippies acting as though they're under the influence ''without'' showing any actual drug use.
28	* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: Hippies often indulge in mind-altering substances that give them expansive visions and insights.
29	* HippieJesus: Some would say that [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Jesus Christ]] would have been a hippie if he came in the 20th century. He has the long-haired, sandal-wearing look and the "peace and love" attitude of one.
30	* HippieName: Hippie names in fiction tend to be weird, hallucinogenic and esoteric.
31	* HippieParents: Some practitioners of free-love never moved on from the sandals and VW bus lifestyle after their love bore fruit.
32	* HippieTeacher: This teacher is easy-going, soft-spoken and will most-likely teach drama or poetry and inspire their students to fight "the Man", often through [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_resistance nonviolent resistance]].
33	* HippieVan: All hippies have a psychedelic mural-emblazoned 1970s Volkswagen Bus for driving to festivals and 420 hangouts.
34	* HorrorHippies: When drug-addled Hippies who've lived in the woods alone too long are portrayed as AxCrazy and not to be trusted.
35	* JunkieProphet: Hippies often [[HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs conflate the mind-expanding effects of LSD with enlightenment and cosmic awareness]]. They think it [[Film/TheBigLebowski keeps their minds limber]].
36	* LikeIsLikeAComma: Stereotypical hippie lingo is, like, [[TotallyRadical totally far out]], man.
37	* LoveFreak: Make Love, Not War. Love is selfless. Love is free. Love is love, love, love, love!
38	* MushroomSamba: As mentioned, the hippie movement was known to be fond of psychedelic drugs.
39	* NatureLover: Getting "back to nature" was a big theme of the Hippie / Flower Children movement. Many felt The CallToAgriculture, felt LuddWasRight and HandmadeIsBetter, and established rural {{Commune}}s, relearning rural skills hoping to create a new {{Arcadia}}, or at least a healthy place for HippieParents to raise the "children of the children".
40	* NewAgeRetroHippie: TheThemeParkVersion of Flower Children.
41	* PsychedelicRock: A genre influenced by hippie culture.
42	* RoundHippieShades: These shades are often worn by hippies.
43	* SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll: All the fixings for a non-parent approved party breakfast.
44	* TheStoner: Many of the stereotypes attributed to weed smokers can be traced back to the idea of the Hippie.
45	* StonersAreFunny: The hippie stoner stereotype PlayedForLaughs.
46	* StrawVegetarian: A lot of vegetarian stereotypes are often indistinguishable with hippie stereotypes.
47	* VerbalTic: "Like", "man", "groovy" and "far out".
48	* WatchItStoned: Hippies are the ''original'' stoner. Or at least the TropeCodifier.
49	* WavingSignsAround: Hippies are likely to get involved in social causes and protests, holding a sign in one hand and a joint in the other.
50	* WildHair: Hippies were noted for sporting long unkempt hair and beards.
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