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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”
The wild thing is that any counter culture movement against consumerism tends to be swallowed by consumerism because if it can be commercialised it will be commercialised
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
There are more hated subcultures in America today than hippies.
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
The Peace Corps did a lot more than "hang out." Their slogan was "The toughest job you'll ever love." Volunteers did things like build schools, construct roads, develop water and sewage systems, teach basic literacy, improve farming methods.
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.
I live in a house in the wild woods of Northern California that was built as the communal house for a commune called the Udder Truth. They had individual living spaces scattered throughout the property. Some were houses, some shacks, and one dude lived in the hollow of a dead old growth redwood tree. He ended offing himself in that tree and that tree finally fell this winter. End of an era. Anyway, like so many communes from that time it crashed and burned very, very quickly. After they disbanded my friend and his wife bought the property and made it an amazing place to live!
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…
"They wanna save the Earth but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad" 😂😂
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 😂
you either die a hippie, or live long enough to see yourself in a Pepsi commercial...
Hahahahahah. Good shit man, lol.
It’s almost like a virtuous grift…
CoCa Cola commandeering the hippy movement is no different that current companies adopting the LGBT banner in June, ignoring it in the middle East, and then dropping it come July.
Bingo Bango
Swiss dude actually invented LSD, so technically it was the Swiss who figured out how to sell enlightenment in convenient packaging.
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.
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I dated a native/latin single mom, she was a hippie too. Believing in crystals, soulmate, energy, astrology and stuff.
It lasted two years and she literally had the audacity to say that she now believes that there are multiple soulmates and she's in love with another man.
I kicked her to the cirb and didn't look back at all. It hurt, but it must be done.
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.
We're getting closer lads, to punks and/or metalheads 😉, great video as always 👍
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.
"no scoped in the back of a car".. yet again a line that tells you great things are ahead
that line was beautiful
lee harvey oswald did in fact use a scope (allegedly). jfk was hard scoped
it caught my attention too.... niiiiice
There is a great line from Danny the dealer at the end of the film Withnail and I where he says "They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworth's" which sums it all up so perfectly how the era ended.
A lot of people fail this format. You sir. Have absolutely fucking nailed it.
Two recommended books for those interested in the subject:
"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968) by Tom Wolfe documents the early beginnings of the hippies, from Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poets, through Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and the formation of the Grateful Dead.
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (1971) by Hunter S. Thompson explores the decline and fall of the counterculture and the corruption of ideals that effectively killed the hippie movement.
Is an entire book required to describe “Postmodern M*rxist Bohemians”?
They're selling hippy wigs in woolworths man.
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.
It is grammatically impossible to say "Hippie" without saying "f***ing" before
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.
I'd be willing to bet that the draft had more to do with the growth of the hippie counterculture than any other one thing. Amazing video!
Hippies were not political
@@SandfordSmythe you don't think so? What do you mean?
Cool breakdown, Jimmy. Even-handed and fun. Respect for the work on the vid.
I think people forget that the hippie movement wasn't that large, a lot of their look and some of their philosophy was coopted by the mainstream but actual hippies were pretty rare
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.
This is so good, I’m late for my lunch break. You a great Jimmie. Worth it. Hippy Spirit back into work now.
Interesting content! I've watched a few of your uploads... consistently good...I've Subscribed. Greetings from the French Alps.
Today we embrace consumerism and we like to market ourselves, to get more likes, sometimes show ourselves to make more money. And if you are not sellable, you are not aprecciated. The thing is, what are you selling that is so unique that it could benefit my life? Money is just a tool, the problem is what you do with that tool.
Smashing them out the park Jimmy!! 2024 you've given us so Manny bangers already!
Hi just found this channel. Great videos! Can I suggest one on Britain's most ridiculed (yet longest-lived) British subculture.......Trainspotting! Still going strong in 2024
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
Absolutely brilliant content recently.
No, Diogenes was the first hippie
So true!
At least Diogenes was cool and actually practiced what he preached...
Hermeticism, or bust!
The best CZcamsr for documentaries. He engages and adds humor, making it easy to understand him. Seriously, he could make a 1-hour video about someone I never knew before, and I would watch it fully.
Only just discovered your videos today. Quality content and appreciate the casual vibes.
Love your work, think I'd watch you do a video on anything at this point.
'Ringolevio' is a great book, Emett grogen of the 'diggers' was one of those to supposedly to start of the San Francisco scene, great book!
goths next please. keep up the good work!
I'm so glad I found your channel. Your videos are great
This was another smash hit. Your compassion for humanity is apparent in your videos; while you may not agree with the subcultures you present, you try to put a human spin on it so that your viewers can more easily understand how things got that way. Bravo, m8.
binged this channel all night so much i overslept this morning and woke up to a new one 😂
Thank you for showing us. You really know how to make videos interesting. Much respect to you sir. Great weekend to you as well.
Yet another top-class video from the Jimmythegiant team. Please keep making these. Peace man ✌️
god damn jimmy your videos are always bangers these days, you're killing it. watch every new upload right until the end of the video because they are just so bloody entertaining!
LSD has definitely been one of the most important experiences of my life. It’s actually really helped me with weight loss/fitness. It’s the most inspiring drug I’ve ever used and I’ve used all of them.
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
Great Video mate 👍
Jimmy, you don't miss mate! Brilliant videos, every single one!
Lovin these recent vids! Also Cab Calloway has a song about being "Hip to the Jive" way back in 1930s, cool to see how culture evolves
Great video dude 👊
In the thumbnail one of the policeman’s guns just turns into his leg
3 Jimmy videos this week how are you pumping these out
Sharp Jimmy! I can dig it man😊
Great video! I'd love to see one where you examine metal heads!
Seems like a lot of these counter culture things die ironically by becoming a part of the culture
Another banger Video
Also, there's a hippie commune here in Tennessee that's been going since 1972 I believe. They have harvest festivals and other gatherings and people come and go as they please as long as you contribute if you stay. I hope to visit this summer.
Thanks for sharing, your videos are really good 👍 ... I have subscribed to your channel ❤️
If you haven’t yet, you really need to make a video on the mods & rockers in Britain, especially the Second Battle of Hastings conflict
Don’t forget the huge part played by the invention of The Pill and with it the sexual revolution… ‘free love’. The irony is that after the revolution, even as people continue to obsess over their identities, they are not even having more of better sex than before.
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.
You make great videos (I just found your channel). I was a teenager in the 60’s (U.S.) and this vid is so interesting. I was there, so to speak, have friends who lived in communes.
Great video. Very fair-minded and insightful. Thanks!
Another vid! Yes please! Ya gonna spoil us
The irony of the hippies is they thought enlightenment was achieved through more - more drugs, more sex etc. Buddhism, Taoism and pretty much any other religion/spirituality says to let go of desire and attachments.
Their virtues were a skin suit, and the cycle continues.
I bloody love this channel
I think you are really doin a great job at this. I honestly think this would be the way to educate kids; humor, enough tempo and still very informative and interesting.
Also, Timothy Leary deserves a video of its own 😅
Great job 👍
I learn so much from Jimmy's videos.
The Farm, in Summer town Tennessee, is a commune started back then by Stephen and Ina May Gaskin, and it's actually still around. There are still original people living there,their kids and grandkids, newer people. Ive been camping there, it's pretty cool
Thanks for the awesome music, hippies! \o/
Cool stuff dude!
Cool video. The Manson family had a big role in ending the whole summer of love thing.
Id love a video about tedk mate loving these vids❤
Good look at that time and like the fun style - only thing I feel is a big miss is the Charlie Manson episode which is generally looked at as the end of that era, the dark side of hippy life. Any reason you didn't include that? Will defo check out more of your stuff.
@JimmyTheGiant To add onto the hippie culture, maybe you can do a video about rave culture in both the 90's and the 2000's which I personally think was heavily influenced by hippie culture in its second wave iteration in the early 2000's.
Disregard. I see you already made that video. Carry on. Hahahaha
Beautiful. Gonna put some flowers in my hair. Btw those monks were Theravadin, but sure, few would know what that is so Tibetan is close enough. Fun history lesson, thanks!
pls pls pls do a video on the aussie eshay subculture pls pls pls
I’d say the proto hippy movement was the Romantic period in England.
Byron & Shelly and co. Shelly was a feminist, vegetarian, anarchist in early 19th century.
Rousseau is continental values.
Great video.
This video reminds me of the short lived Grunge movement , which is also still felt today. Would love to see a video on that.
Bomb content
Atomic*
2:02 because of him actual being a good politician not a evil person
Hey, Jimmy! I just got back into your content, and I was wondering what happened to the parkour
I love your videos Jimmy
Hippie Art had touches of Edwardian Mod which was a thing in the 60’s too. The Beats had influence from The Existential’s Paris underground intellectuals who rebelled.
My mum was a Hippie. They had a lot of valid principles.
Jimmmmmyyyyy you should make a video on the history of breakdance. In my opinion the most underrated spor by farrrrrr
Frank Zappa wrote and produced "we're only in it for the money" as early as october 1967...
This makes me long for an alternative to consumerism and conflict that's more sustainable. The problem is that the people radical enough to start a movement like this are also young and naïve, so they'll grow out of it before long. They also tend to be burnouts who don't want to work hard to build things that last.
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.
That's funny! "Brian and Barbara are doing yoga and talking about soy products." My name is Brian, and my mom's name is Barbara, but we don't do yoga and talk about soy very often. Nor are we married even though we live in Alabama, USA. [snare drum]
The hippies really died @ Altamont. Why they thought the Hells Angel's would be good security at a Rolling Stones concert is beyond me. The whole hippie movement died during the song "Sympathy for the Devil" during that concert.
The coke ad song is nicer if you take the indefinite article before coke, in the chorus.
Ledgen WAIT FOR IT DARY video Jimmy, very nice work. I just wish shrooms and LSD was a lot more easier to get hold of.
‘Americas most beloved subculture: Cowboys’
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…
The hippies are far from America’s most hated subculture, also it wasn’t really a national movement but relegated mostly to the west coast and the northeast. The majority of America were probably only aware of the existence of hippies due to Hollywood, which portrayed it primarily as the butt of some joke. I grew up in the Bible Belt and I can’t recall ever seeing any hippies at all throughout the 70’s. The country really became wary of them after the whole Manson episode which got linked in with the movement.
I grew up in the BB too, and we had profiteering “Weed Hippies”.
A subculture you may be interested is the bosuzoku! They are crazy car enthusiasts with a sad backstory. Love the many videos btw❤
13:47 That must be a terrible experience - wheat is spiky as hell
People hated hippies because the vast majority of them were just rich kids. Some actually embraced the hippie culture and lived a simpler life, but the vast majority are boomers who own massive houses and manage hedge funds.
The Ford Anglia 105E you showed came out in 1959… so not post war. And it was a UK car and was never sold in America. And Ford didn’t start during the War it had been around since 1909.
I'm waiting for you to make a video about brazil most hated sub-culture: Funk.
Mfer outthumbnailed me. Fantastic video man. The 60s have become an unhealthy obsession of mine as of late.
What from the 60’s did you focus on?
Insightful, good job. How about a show about movie during the hippie era 1965-1975, like SILENT RUNNING 1972, Joan Baez, environmental film. That was probably the most hippie movie ever to come out of hollywood.
The hippies grew up but kept the spirit alive!
That's why they made sure none of us could afford new houses, so we'll have to live in communes.
22:48 Don Draper is a genius
2:00 he was most definitely scoped. It has a scope mounted to it.
How about making a video about the Anarcho-Punks of the 1980's and beyond? I was a Hunt Sabouteur from 1981 - 1987. From about 1982, the Anarcho-Punks stated to come along and I met quite a few of them. They were basically 'New Hippies' and there was a commune ( Squat ) called 'The Peace Centre'. The band Crass were probably the most well known Band ( although I prefered Conflict ), and came out of a place called DIAL HOUSE in Epping. It would be good if you could make a video about the movement. Lastly, to me, Hippy is a state of being. I'm 63, and still have a Hippy heart.
You should do the history of the front flip
I'm goth punk, was raised by hippies. My understanding is all these counter cultures came from what some rarely know as Beautific Smile; aka the beatnik. I do think those philosophers had a lot to do with it and a 1700s philosopher who said "do what feels good." The Beatnik poetry thing brought with ideas of socialism, feminism, equal rights and even LGBTQ rights. You'll find a lot of socialism, communism and anarchism in these moments as well as a very DIY attitude.
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Transcendentalism is a better example of the origins of Hippie philosophy. Henry David Thoreau was arrested for not paying taxes because he objected to the Mexican American war. Emerson was about the only philosopher Nietzsche respected.