A new world ... will certainly come with a father, and a mother, and an aunt, uncle, or grandma thrown in, and lots and lots of children—especially those. That is a natural order I can believe in

Saving Nature from the Hippies

by C. R. Wiley

There’s probably a better word—but hippie just works for me. They’ve won by the way—the hippies I mean. Not the unkemptness thankfully, but the outlook.  

You can see them everywhere now—where you might expect, in Hollywood, and where you probably don’t, Silicon Valley and Wall Street. 

It is their appearance on Wall Street that tells you they won. 

When Monsanto does its best impression of an environmental advocacy group and Kimberly Clark, the diaper maker, comes out for gay marriage you know hippies now run America. 

So I’m a little embarrassed to admit it, but I like granola. But since when did getting a little closer to nature make you a hippie?

What makes you a hippie? After thinking about it a good long time I’ve come up with this: it is a faith in uncultivated things and a mindset that equates impulses and warm sentiments with all that is both natural and innocent that makes you a hippie. In the hippie lexicon artificial is just another word for bad. And civilization—particularly Western Civilization—is a blight.

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• The Nature of Artifice—or Why Art Comes so Naturally to Us ...
• Social Institutions and the Making of the Hippie Brain ...
• Social Institutions, Where Can We Flee from Thy Presence? ...
• Hippies Get Real and Unreal with Social Institutions ...
• Thinking about Nature and Human Nature for the Non-Hippie ...
• How to Fight Hippies ...
• Hippies at Home ...
• A Prophesy—the End of the Hippie and a Return to Nature ...

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