Why do punks hate hippies

That was true of hippies, too, of course, and just to keep it fair and balanced, both groups also contributed their share of drug addicts and lunatics. But I still think the hippies have left a much more noticeable mark, for better and worse. But maybe not as long as half of them refused to come outside in the daytime. Another big difference is that the hippies actively recruited, whereas the punks repelled.

They were reacting against the cloying excesses of the hippies, against the self-serving crassness of the politicians, against the deep, abiding stupidity that both British and American society seemed to be wallowing in. Hippies were selling a wildly idealistic — and yes, unrealistic — vision, but who could be against peace, love, understanding, and the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?

Meanwhile, Ronald Reagan, an actual bad guy, if not an outright fascist, was marching into the White House. The hippies — if you include their cousins, the New Left — could put hundreds of thousands of people in the streets to oppose the Vietnam War.

When the punks show up for a protest, they might come in the hundreds for a big one, in the tens or dozens otherwise. On the other hand, while many old hippies have turned into Trumpists — or apathetic nonparticipants, which is almost as bad. Of course almost from the beginning there was a small but virulent right-wing element on the punk scene, usually but not exclusively among the skinheads. Not always because they agree with his policies; sometimes they just do it to piss people off.

I will say that for all their negativity and reactionary tendencies, the punks were more likely to pool their efforts and create lasting institutions. The local tradition of activism and creating alternative institutions offered the punks something more appealing than getting fried on drugs and beating the hell out of each other, which tended to be the undoing of the Los Angeles and New York scenes.

But who gave the Bay Area that tradition of activism and alternatives? Yep, the hippies and student radicals of the 60s. Not to mention the beats, the civil rights protesters, the union organizers, all of whom laid down the soil in which the hippies could flourish, but most of the punks are too young to remember them. Question authority?

What authority? A couple of the teachers would try to get pot from and grope my 12 and 13 year-old classmates, and tried to blur the lines between kids and adults. Hippies are anti-establishment and anti status quo, and so are punks.

Hippies don't like capitalism, and neither do punk. Hippies are anarchist, and so are punks. Hippies tend to be socialists anarcho-socialist , and so are punks. Hippies have strong DIY culture, and so do punks.

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