when people try and compare hippies to new agers im like theres some nee ager hippies but . oh my god please new agers make me so upset . you knlw the mfs who just co opt every nonwestern practice like a queer discourse major collecting slurs like pokemon cards. being a hippie is about choosing love in the face of evil and just smoking weed taking shrooms tripping out and the melding of eastern (especially indian) culture and music styles. im
(my collection of sitar osychedelia)
people will say shit to me without knowing how indian music wrosk . see in northern indian classical music they dont have written notations . its dum tarē ki ta dum dum na na and thats how they play the tabla (if someone who knows more about indian mysic would add on i would love to hear!) you have to train to play the sitar and have to have calluses or else the strings will cut your fingers.
see, in the 60s, they didnt have iphones. they couldnt just read a tumblr post talking about another culture and then go ahaha im gonna do this without understanding it. hippies WENT to india they STUDIED in india it is the ENTERTWINING of cultures. their clothes werent fast fashion slop. they were beautiful and inteicate and oh my god donovan . so pretty. he is one of THEEE hippies, (first major psychedelic artist, early psychedelia has roots in folk)
also, timothy leary: lsd advocate and who started the summer of love/hippie movement with turn on tune in drop out
the new age was the commercialization of it.
anyway, we should have another summer of love.