America's Most HATED Subculture... 

Jimmy u never mentioned the CIA's involvement in the hippy (and punk) movements

Jimmy, I loved your idea of this dive into the subculture of the hippy movement, but I personally felt it was a little disjointed in comparison to many of your previous subculture videos. The arguments you make through the video seem a little unfocussed. For instance, your argument was that there was a contradiction within the hippy movement, with their ideas of individualism, which you later say they contradicted with their ideas of socialism, community, communes, etc. Individualism at this time wasn’t a hippy ideal. Free expression and free love yes, but individualism no. People wished to be part of a collective movement for change. The concept of individualism was being pushed by a group of neoliberals called the “Chicago Boys”, a group of economists that sprung up in the 50s, and rabidly pushed the concept of individualism, which was far more in step with ‘establishment’ ideals, and would eventually become the main political philosophy for the neoliberal push of the late 70s and 80s, of so-called Reganomics and Thatcherism. Most social anthropologists would point to 1969 as the death of the hippy movement. The trauma surrounding the Manson Family/Sharon Tate murder played a huge part. The New Haven Black Panther trials began. The final nail in the coffin for hippydom being the death of Meredith Hunter, a black teenager killed by the Hell’s Angels at the free Altamont Music Festival on the 6th of December 1969. As the next decade began, the hippy movement was all ready dead, with only the echoes of their previous protests reverberating into the mid-70s. Soon the horrors of the neoliberal agenda would poison Western politics, bringing about globalism, something effecting our society to this very day, something that far outlasted the hippy movement that originally looked to crush ‘The Man’. Please keep these video essays going. You have a natural charisma ideal for this form of video, and the editing is on point. I’m sure many people out there would agree with me that an even deeper dive on the content you make would be greatly appreciated. Fantastic stuff.

@@fmpentertainmentmedley3338 another video i think

@@JimmyTheGiant big ups bro i look forward to that 😊 keep these mini docos coming they rock!

Word up. Just accepted. Drivin home. I got a little homework to do over there. Been a bit for me. “Bit of a Geezah itnt it”

No,people grow up eventually and realise they`re behaving like a spoilt child.

​@@mjh5437 Why so?

@@ChaseDaOrk3767 although there are some who disagree, i believe it is generally known that the passage of time is non-reversible

@@mjh5437 That's not necessarily what the original commenter is trying to say, I think that they are relating counterculture to consumerism in the context of things like Hot Topic pumping out corporate brands for emos, punks having their aesthetic turned into a marketable brand, and pride movements turning into a multinational corporation circlejerk

​@@boldCactusladbold of you to assume you know what goes on in the mind of every person

No joke.

I think a lot of the hated subcultures of America all stem from the hippie movement.

True but a lot of them are more extreme or left over branches from the hippie movement. Personally I think the worse gen is the second half of the hippies and their jackass kids, the yuppies. A generation that were still dealing with and their bull shit.

In the 60s it was

It's a banter youtube title, don't think too hard on it

I’d like to imagine all that effort compounded, and changed those societies for the better, but that alternate outcome only exits in the minds out of touch B**mers…

excellent front for CIA field officers looking to gather information on their target country.

Offed himself in the tree! Geez!

Was the flag a picture of a cows udder? Were y'all sponsored by Bag Balm? Well!???! WERE YOU OR NOT?!?!?!

that sounds amazing! lucky.

Sounds cool. The tree would creepy me out, though

Bohemians for ya…

why not both?

Because they was too stoned to save a dying bee never mind save the earth, soapy dregs

They’re hippies, they don’t have any money!

That sounds like something cartman would say! Lol

@@TheWedabest He did indeed 😂

Hahahahahah. Good shit man, lol.

It’s almost like a virtuous grift…

Bingo Bango

No bro, Americans created blotted paper squares

not really invented but ok

Hallucinogens go back a thousand years or longer.

He found the chemical didn’t invent the delivery system though. Ironically it was the CIA that invented the delivery system in hopes of creating mind slaves to carry out assassination attempt and/or the perfect order following solider, only to accidentally create the hippy movement.

@@radasfcksynthesised g

My theory as a 90s born punk... The first wave punks were the result of disillusioned and pissed of hippies that didn't just shave, get a job and become the Boomer sell outs of today. Honestly, the ideology is near identical save a far more aggressive and in your face approach to it all from the punk side. Punks gave up asking and just started doing and or taking. And metal heads are much the same, ultimately just angrier hippies that understand respectability failed and we gotta get even more abrasive if we want results...

​@@JaceReboot interesting point. As all subcultures are a mixture of elements from other cultures, there's probably some truth to that, especially as there was some rivalry between the punks and hippies in the 70s

As a 90s punk myself, this is so refreshing​@@JaceReboot

@@JaceReboot there is no "movement" in the metal scene. we just like to get fucked up and headbang.

@@JaceReboot Heavy metal is a sub-culture built around music mate. Thats our first love, that and hanging out with other people that are into the same music. Its music that turned into a social activity. Anything else like politics or religion can either be embraced or rejected depending on what the individual believes. But yes obviously the roots of heavy metal are based on popular culture of the1960s.

Yeah, that's quite common these days, my Aunt and Uncle got into all that and faith healing in the 80s.........didn't end well.

Yeah I would have a hard time being in a relationship with someone who believes in soulmates lol. To me it just displays a severely limited/narrow perspective of the sheer number of humans that exist in the world. There’s literally an unlimited number of people that could be compatible with you. I do like to think of the fact that my life would be very different if I hadn’t encountered certain people along the way, but I know that there’s really no meaning behind any of it. Nothing happens for a reason if you look outside your own ego.

That’s so convenient that they had another soulmate isn’t it

@@pricklycats Yeah, it's all ego-centric BS. Funny thing that if he'd researched even further he'd realise there's nothing the hippies did that hadn't been done before throughout history. They were at least lucky in that their counter-culture wasn't erased by force.

I do wonder if they just use their "beliefs" to mask their narcisissm and selfishness.

that line was beautiful

lee harvey oswald did in fact use a scope (allegedly). jfk was hard scoped

it caught my attention too.... niiiiice

Is an entire book required to describe “Postmodern M*rxist Bohemians”?

Hippie

Or “god damn “

Well, maybe, but the dirty f**king hippies were right!

The Brits sometimes find the English lexicon difficult, which I find hilariously ironic.🤣

@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly That's not ironic, which I find hilarious.

great movie

End of an era. Old order fadeth, yielding place to new.

@@rasklaat2 Rave still exists, but then so do hippies. Sometimes both. After all, trance had to come from somewhere.

Hippies were not political

@@SandfordSmythe you don't think so? What do you mean?

The hippies were mainstream… Middle class kids, and Red academics… The west fell decades previously, without a single shot.

@@basilbaby7678 So did the east. Neither capitalism nor communism seemed to have worked out too well for anyone. Russia is a dictatorship. America.....feels like its cracking into pieces.

So true!

At least Diogenes was cool and actually practiced what he preached...

Hermeticism, or bust!

Not a culture. Depending on your definition, it's either a hobby or a chemical dependency.

@@yungjiggamayne2262 Beat me to it by 11 mins.

junkies?

nope. Trainspotters@@goldensloth7

Yes same thing with FUCKING SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!! scientifically I've yet to see or hear someone pull off this impossible feat

Atomic*

Not a fan myself. I prefer entactogens.

Agreed. Changed me for the better in numerous ways. I'm very thankful for the experiences I've had.

Don't knock ego-death until you've tried it.

3rded

​@@Pooknottin please use a test kit

Disregard. I see you already made that video. Carry on. Hahahaha

The propaganda around the Pill was so that the other half of the population could start paying income tax. Gloria Steinem admitted it on camera.

Their virtues were a skin suit, and the cycle continues.

Yeee haw. Possibly the most famous sub culture in global terms. A lot of romantism about it all and the films

Really, I thought it might be Suburban Mom Multi-level Marketing…

Rousseau is continental values.

I grew up in the BB too, and we had profiteering “Weed Hippies”.

I totally agree. I feel it should be a variant of 'opting out' of society where you are still able to interact with services you require and that are absolutely necessary but you dont get any of the 'freebies' that tax payers have access to.

Your pre-war ancestors weren’t consumerist.