I've considered myself a hippie since I was about 15 (1971). To me, it was never about clothes, drugs, music, sex, or any of the cultural attributes people try to use to define the term. To me, being a hippie always meant, and still means valuing people more than things. I know that philosophy didn't start when the term "hippie" first came into use. But I like to think that anyone who had this philosophy prior to the time of the hippies was a hippie and just didn't know it.

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