Back to hippie roots....sort of.

[bennu_]

I'm noticing an interesting personal development. For quite a few years, I threw all my "hippie" stuff to the wind and stopped caring about what I ate or bought, where it came from, and how it affects anything. I just kind of got really disillusioned with the vast pile of bullshit that must be filtered through in the psuedo-scientific new age,

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[fizzyland]

I made a similar shift when I moved from pacific northwest Vancouver to Los Angeles. Even though I know a ton of pagans here, they are so removed from the New Agey types I used to be around, it's a nice change.

I found those people alarmist and irrational. Freaking out over Harmonic Convergences and microwave ovens and government plots to sap our precious bodily fluids with aspartame & HFCS.

[bennu_]

When I worked at Market of Choice in Eugene, there were lots of those. One lady came in repeatedly, we called her "Earth Muffin". Each time she'd find some new sin against earth that the store was committing.

[cordelia_sue]

Sustainability and educated choices about our food isn't just for hippies any more. There are a lot of well balanced, normal, non-preachy people who practice that kind of lifestyle, they just aren't the uber-vocal ones that annoy us all so much.

I don't find it difficult at all to avoid the hippies. Then again, I live in a part of the world where a large percentage of the population cares about the environment and their food sources.

Some people I know say I'm a hippie. I tell them to fuck off. I share some character traits with the typical hippie but I did not choose them as part of an identity I adopted, nor do I in any way toe that party's line.

[bennu_]

I'm pretty much the same in that respect.

[museinspiredart]

You might like Michael Pollan. He has a very down to earth approach to the whole food subject. (http://www.michaelpollan.com/write.php )

I also really like people who are into homestead farming, like those people in Pasadena, California. ( http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/ ) Very inspirational...they're willing to get dirt under their nails and walk their talk.

Eco Hippies...Vegan Nazis...and all of their type should stop preaching and put some of that energy into creating an organic garden at home or for their community.

[bennu_]

Thanks, I'll check those links out!! Agreed on where to focus!