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The original hippie generation was all about denouncing government. They disagreed with many governement policies only one of which was the war in Vietnam.
They were really anarchists at heart and you can see it if you listen to songs like; One Tin Soldier, Toy Soldiers and Where Have All the Flowers Gone.
Most hippies that were into the folk culture were all about over throwing the government but they wanted to do it through peaceful means.
The Government didn't play fair with them, though.
In 1968, a group of people in Northern California wanted to clean up an empty lot and make it into a park. The park was supposed to be for all of the people and they even named it the People's Park Project.
The Governor of California wanted the park closed because it promoted "anarchy and dissent in California"
(It was a PARK!!!)
The Governor called in the National Guard who then put up a chain fence around the park and held unarmed citizens at gun point from entering the park.
There is a very famous picture from Life magazine where a girl is putting a flower in the muzzle of one of those guns. This was her protest.

Oh! And by the way, if anyone is interested, the name of the Governor of California in 1968 was Ronald Regan.

So, yeah, being a hippie is about social consciousness. In that, the revolt against tyranny is a part of it. It is just enacted by alternate means.

It's called revolution.

Josef Ulyanov (Lenin) and Napolean had the right idea, they just didn't have the means to carry it out. The only way to make the world a better, more peaceful, more equal place is to Unite everything under your own name. You have CONTROL the world to fix it, and you must OPPRESS the world to end war. Then, you must ENRICH the world to bring peace, and, upon your end, you must BECOME PART OF the world to ensure that it remains the same for as long as possible. One thing I've learned in life is that the ignorant cannot be corrupted, and the attentive are always the powerful. And, in the end, the only way to do it is by becoming so RADICAL in your beliefs that none will believe you, and then be so SUBTLE in your invasion that nothing can stop you.

Basicly, the world is too BLUNT and FOOLISH to have sovereignty. In order to have true, unlasting power, one must be an individual, arrogant, kindly, unwavering, intelligent, subtle, and powerful, all in one, or they cannot rule truly.

It is my goal to to truly rule this world, and make it good.

What say you to that, friend?