Eminem has declared the new hippie movement uniform

[AnIndependentTexan]

The Mosh video is just the start of the movement by my generation. If you all think youths won't protest think again. Eminem is leading the charge and Hoodies will soon be the same as tie-dye t-shirts. The revolution has just began! Welcome to the new generation of hippies.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Old Hippies welcome you! n/t

[DrWeird]

2. That's a contradiction in terms.

Uniforms are for fascists.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Oh. lighten up.

[cornfedyank]

13. true ..long hair became a uniform

imo the hippies did not last too long. maybe like the beatniks, the true believers , or the saints...copycats are cheap a.k.a. a dime a dozen.

[DeepGreen]

4. Fantastic !!!! It has been a long time coming !!

Welcome from a (getting old) hippie from Ohio now living in
Colorado !!!

:hippie: :toast: :hi:

[starroute]

5. More like Beatniks

Black, severe, intense ...

I think the hippie stage will come when all this is over and everybody wants to lighten up and get mellow. But we ain't there yet by a long shot.

[burn the bush]

6. Bring em on!!!! I was worried about how long us oldies could stand

or march, or sit at a time. I can see it now... "Revolution called off-protestors out of Ben Gay"

[bobbieinok]

7. aching in sympathy......friend said Ben Gay is seniors' perfume'

[Lone_Star_Dem]

9. LOL!!

Thank you I needed that laugh today. :)

I am the daughter of a hippie and am starting to have a few creaks and cracks myself.

[cornfedyank]

14. remember we are a bridge, we just carry on an old message.

someone after us will take up the torch.

[madrchsod]

8. we will see---

[Kill Radicalism Now]

10. I guess you can call me a new hippie...

I guess I better start buyin' some Eminem records, eh? I guess I can get used to rap music for a good cause. ;)

[cornfedyank]

16. buy nothing day

people can just be.

[Sabriel]

11. As long as no one parodies it

Like those black-dressing artsy Germans on SNL. I can just see it now.

[SudieJD]

12. Well, You Can Count On My Help!

Whatever I can do to help! I'm an old "Ann Arbor" U of M hippie.

Sudie in MN

[BTTB]

15. Funny, because I just bought Encore today.

Great CD, mosh owns, and the movie is awesome.

[Selatius]

17. My advice to fellow would-be protesters: LOOK PRESENTABLE

You aren't going to be looked upon with as much respect if all your crowd just looks like a bunch of goths, freaks, bikers, thugs, etc. than if they appeared as normal people like those you are trying to get your message to. I know it sounds incredibly vapid and shallow, but if you're going to sell an idea, you've got to be the salesman.

It's harder for the corporate news media and the corporatists to paint you as the un-American lunatic fringe if you look like ordinary, working-class Americans than if you look like a bunch of freaks. If you look at pictures of people who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, you'd see that many of them were dressed semiformally or formally in suit and tie. It gave a more respectable appearance.

Say whatever you want to say, but don't play into their hands and make it easier for them to marginalize you and ridicule you as the radical few based on appearance alone.

The whole reason why people dressed the way they did back in the 1960s was to rail against a socially repressive society that didn't talk about sex, didn't talk about homosexuality, and didn't allow people room to express themselves. That's all changed now. It's post-cultural revolution America. There is no more point in dressing extravagantly anymore to protest against a repressive social order that died at the end of the 1960s.

The point today is to simply be heard. Aside from the fact that we're still far away from accepting gays as our equals, the only social issues we have to deal with are over health care and the environment and public education, not about what you can or cannot wear. This isn't the era where mini-skirts are still considered scandalous and new, for instance.