[lbo-talk] hippies

[Charles Brown]

"Michael J. Smith" wrote:
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> Lapsing dismally into seriousness here: "hippie" was a media category --
> if memory serves, Time magazine originally came up with the term. 

This is correct. It is quite remarkable how many social categories (some of
them with no content whatever) were invented by Time -- and as in the case
of "hippies" social reality, while never really conforming to the
Time-created archetype, did edge in that direction. This was my reason, in
an earlier post, for referring to "Hippies" as belonging to myth rather than
history.

Carrol

^^^^
CB: Also it derives from "hip" and "hipster" , which were Black slang.