Hippie

2009-11-09T14:44:46Z

SmythPP:

[[Image:Hippies.jpg|right]]

The '''Hippie''' or '''Counter Culture''' subculture originated in the mid 1960s, in rebellion to modernity and moderation, or ats the Hippies put it, to "all repressive hierarchical power structures since these are adverse to the hippie goals of peace, love and freedom." <ref>http://www.hippy.com/hippyway.htm</ref>

Hippies were noted for their [[liberal]] stance, including psychedelic [[music]], sexual freedom, [[drug]] use (particularly [[LSD]]), and rejecting what they saw as the [[materialism|materialistic]] values of the society around them. The non-violent movement was largely in response to the [[Vietnam War]] and used the slogan "[[peace]] and [[love]]" and "make love not [[war]]".

Many of the elements of hippie counterculture, such as an anti-corporate ideology and the [[anarchy|anarchic]], experimental, [[libertarian|libertarian]] strands, have stayed with hippies as they grew up. Many aspects of alternative lifestyles that were shocking in the 1960s have now become somewhat acceptable in [[liberal society]] and amongst those influenced by [[Hollywood values]], such as recreational use of drugs and a loose attitude towards sex. <ref> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1612717,00.html </ref>

Hippies were preceded by the counter-culture [[beatnik]] movement of the 1950s.

==Christian Alternative==
"[[Jesus Freak]]s" were hippies who were born-again [[Christian]]s and followed Christ's commandments regarding the importance of [[love]] and eschewed the use of drugs. Many hippies experimented with alternative living arrangements such as [[commune]]s, where all work and all possessions were shared.

==Examples in Pop Culture==
In the movie ''[[Easy Rider]]'' the protagonists visit a hippie commune in California. Conservative writer [[Tom Wolfe]]'s account of [[Ken Kesey]]'s [[Merry Pranksters]] in his book ''[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]'' documented one aspect of the hippie scene.

==Famous Hippies==

===Ken Kesey===
Most famous for writing the novel "[[One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest]]," [[Ken Kesey]], though a beatnik, was well known for his attributions to the hippie culture. He famously rode around on top of a technicolor school bus called "Furthur." He had a troupe of hippies with whom he lived and traveled, called the [[Merry Pranksters]]. The adventures of Kesey and the Pranksters are documented in "[[The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test]]," by [[Tom Wolfe]].

===Timothy Leary===
Dr. [[Timothy Leary]] (1920 – 1996) was a Harvard professor of psychology. He research into psychedelic drugs, including LSD--and promoted their use. He is best known for coining the phrase "Turn on, tune in, drop out."

===Harry Hay===
[[Harry Hay]] was founder of the Radical Faeries, a loosely affiliated international group of mostly gay men, hippies, neopagans, environmentalists, and eco-feminists. Hay is a radical who is accredited as the founder of the modern [[gay rights]] movement in the United States. As an octogenarian Hay was still known to dress as a hippie.<ref>http://www.eyeweekly.com/eye/issue/issue_01.11.01/columns/pink.php</ref>

==External Links==
*[http://www.epcc.edu/nwlibrary/borderlands/14_flower_children.htm Flower Children]

==References==
<References/>

[[Category:1960s]]
[[category:culture]]

Zombie

2009-11-09T14:41:26Z

SmythPP: reversing mindless vandalism

The fictional creatures known as '''Zombies''' are the reanimated [[death|corpse]]s of dead persons.

==History==

The phrase originates with the [[Voodoo]] religion of the [[Caribbean]], where it is alleged, due to the historically high mortalities among living [[slavery|slave]] labourers, zombies were procured to work on plantations. In fact these zombies may actually have been living [[abduction|abductees]]; an extract of toxins from the [[puffer fish]] is believed to have been used in their preparation, rendering them tractable, speechless and impervious to sensations such as pain and fatigue.

==In Popular Culture==

Zombies commonly feature in a popular sub-genre of [[horror film]]s, such as ''[[Night of the Living Dead]]''. Cinematic zombies are frequently portrayed as mindless, lurching, animated cadavers animated only by an unquenchable lust for blood and human [[brain]]s, and can typically be put down permanently only by means of [[decapitation]] or a [[gun]]shot to the head. Moreover, they are usually able to spread their condition by a mere bite, causing anyone so injured to turn into a zombie in a matter of hours. These so-called "rules" were established by the highly successful "Dead" series by George A. Romero. Of course, these "rules" are not always abided by-- the 28 * Later series' "Infected" don't abide by most of them.

Zombies are also common antagonists in [[fantasy]] [[role-playing game]]s, often being reanimated by [[necromancy|necromantic]] [[magic]]ians, where they are also usually classified as [[undead]] beings, and thus certain people, such as clerics, are able to utterly annihilate them with pure faith alone.

=== Famous movies involving zombies ===
*George A. Romero's "Dead series"
*The "Evil Dead" series (The Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness)
*The 28 * Later series.

=== Famous videogames involving Zombies ===
*Resident Evil series (various platforms) 
*Dead Rising (Xbox360) 
*House of the Dead (Arcade) 

=== Famous books involving Zombies ===
*[[World War Z]]
*The Zombie Survival Guide

==Other uses==

In computer terminology, a '''Zombie''' is a computer which has been infected by malware, usually without the owner suspecting anything, and made to perform as a server for spam or other malicious content, thus isolating the original bad actor from a trace by law enforcement. A large percentage of junk email and [[phishing]] attempts are transmitted by zombie networks.

Another use of the term is in the construction "philosophical zombie" or "p-zombie"; this essentially a Gedankenexperiment to investigate whether it would be possible to determine, within a naturalistic framework, whether or not a being who behaved like a human being were conscious or not.

[[Category:Mythical Beasts]]
[[category:computers]]

Conservapedia - User contributions [en]

Hippie

Zombie