"Die hippies, Die"

Those of you in America may have seen the latest episode of South Park which was aired last Wednesday night. For those of you who didn't see it, Cartman sets out to rid South Park of all the hippies but he is put in jail for trapping hippies in his basement. The town overflows with hippies (pot smoking hippies, drum circle hippies, and the worst - college student hippies who say great things like "My Professor has really opened my mind") and Stan , Kyle and Kenny become hippies. The hippies have a "hippie jam fest" in which they get stoned and listen to shit music and, as usual, it is the kids who have the moment of revelation. While the hippies want to "Change the world through the power of rock and roll," Stan realises that there is little more selfish than sitting about getting high and listening to shit music.

And this is the problem with hippies..... they all want to change the world, make it a "better place" while most of them sit about getting high, never really engaging on any level with the world beyond. How is it ever possible to change the world when the world that you exist in is a fabricated nonsense that has lost touch with what reality really is? Of course there are problems with corporations and capitalism but the so-called counter culture of 21st Century hippies is fraught with it's own. There is nothing interesting about getting high all day, about coming up with grand plans when you're wasted only to forget them the next morning or about celebrating bad dreadlocks and clothing tastes. If all the people who said they wanted to change the world had the rigor and determination to do it then things might change but a bunch of hippies will do nothing at all. And as Cartman so eloquently points out the "college student hippies" are the worst. They absorb what they are told and spout out bad renditions of it to whomever will listen to their bullshit, promoting apathy as a way to beat an abstract corporation that they wouldn't recognise if they came into contact with it.


Anyway.. enough polemic.

I have fallen in love with a pair of shoes. Unfortunately these shoes have a three figure price tag and I am poor. However, I can walk past the shop window with the shoes in it and drool over them. If it is a particularly special occasion I might go in and try them on. I must have these shoes, I do not think my life will ever be complete without them. If anyone has any crazy money making schemes please let me know!! :)

Also:

Infinite Thought has discovered a new blog called Continental Philosophy which is about what it says and mostly about the state of it in this country. I am fairly worried about what's happening to Continental Philosophy at the moment and as many of you may know there are increasing problems out here on the ontological frontline. We are under attack from folk psychology (kind've like hippies but with even more bullshit) and it's nice to see some concern for our area. Anyway, you should watch the blog for more interesting posts; I may write more on this at some point if it wasn't so tiresome.


Back to thinking about shoes..... (they are so fucking fantastic).

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