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May. 16th, 2014 08:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogIt's a little frustrating to identify on some level with a group that is continuously mischaracterized by another group that I identify with.
Anti-anti-vaccine groups often paint anti-vaccine people as 'hippies', using the term as well as images of people who, for lack of a better way to describe them, very much look like hippies, in their memes on Facebook.
I appreciate the sixties idealism that gave rise to the hippies. I've often thought that if I'd been around at the time, I'd be one. I don't see hippies as being anti-science in general, nor as anti-vaccine in particular.
Are people who identify as hippies at the present time actually against vaccines generally speaking, or has the concept of hippie been rolled up into fear of science masquerading as refusal to put anything supposedly unnatural into your body ('cause let me tell you; I wasn't there, but I read a lot about Timothy Leary (and somewhat less about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and I suspect that a lot of hippies in the sixties were entirely happy to put unnatural substances into their bodies.)
Anti-anti-vaccine groups often paint anti-vaccine people as 'hippies', using the term as well as images of people who, for lack of a better way to describe them, very much look like hippies, in their memes on Facebook.
I appreciate the sixties idealism that gave rise to the hippies. I've often thought that if I'd been around at the time, I'd be one. I don't see hippies as being anti-science in general, nor as anti-vaccine in particular.
Are people who identify as hippies at the present time actually against vaccines generally speaking, or has the concept of hippie been rolled up into fear of science masquerading as refusal to put anything supposedly unnatural into your body ('cause let me tell you; I wasn't there, but I read a lot about Timothy Leary (and somewhat less about Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and I suspect that a lot of hippies in the sixties were entirely happy to put unnatural substances into their bodies.)
