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Hippies and Liberty

Hippies and Liberty. “Die Hippie Die” (2005). Hippie “infestation” College Know-It-All Hippies Lifestyle hippie Hippie stereotype? Cartman...? “We don't need corporations, man” Parody of hippy ideology Hippies as extremists? Paradox of tolerance?. Woodstock 1969.

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Hippies and Liberty

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  1. Hippies and Liberty

  2. “Die Hippie Die” (2005) • Hippie “infestation” • College Know-It-All Hippies • Lifestyle hippie • Hippie stereotype? • Cartman...? • “We don't need corporations, man” • Parody of hippy ideology • Hippies as extremists? Paradox of tolerance?

  3. Woodstock 1969 • “Hippie Music Jam Festival”

  4. Disaster Movies Parody

  5. The Counterculture Movement(s) • Beat Generation: 1950s authors/artists • Anti-establishment, rejecting materialism and conformity, sex/drug experimentation, anti-conformity • Counter-hegemony • Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters: late 50s-mid-60s • Civil Rights, Free Speech, and New Left movements in 1960s • Much of the counterculture movement originated on college campuses

  6. Hippie Ideology • “hipsters”; youth movement/subculture • rejection of their parents generation • Opposed middle class values, war, and large institutions • Sexual revolution, drug experiments, cultural diversity, back to earth, social revolution, community • Influence on music, art, and literature • Social group; global • Style as individual rights • Incorporation into mass culture • Lives on in other subcultures, stalwarts, and “lifestyle hippies”

  7. Cannabis Prohibition In US • Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 • first U.S. national law making cannabis possession illegal • growers/retailers taxed excessively • A series of federal/state acts passed in food and medicinal regulation by governments 1906-1920s • Racist laws? Nationalist? Mexican immigrants in the 20s/30s • 1972, the US Congress places in Schedule I: no accepted medical use, abuse, safety of use • Medical in 29 US states and DC (2018) • Uruguay and Spain have federal decriminalization

  8. Opponents Dangerous to use No FDA-approval Other drugs you can take Addictive gateway drug Fertility Impairs driving ability lungs, immune system, and brain Front for drug legalization Medicinal/Recreational Marijuana • Pro • Safe and effective treatment • Peer-reviewed studies • Worldly historical use • Revenues • Organized Crime • Law enforcement resources/prison

  9. “Medicinal Fried Chicken” (2010) • Government regulation of things “bad” for us • 1) fast food 2) marijuana, m'kay • At time, Colorado was considering bills for both • Commentary against both type of laws • Cartman is an addict; addiction in general • Ban of fast food in low income areas • Scarface parody or allusion? • Just legalize it; KFC keeping them healthy • Black market, death, violence, health issues

  10. Social Satire? • On extreme of debate of legalization • On length people go to get medicinal marijuana • Why not legalize?

  11. Placement or Integration?

  12. Colonel Sanders

  13. 16, I, Community, and Medical • Addictive habits of Americans • Healthy eating encouraged by regulating fast food • “Medicinal Fried Chicken” shows tension between community standards and individual rights • John Stuart Mill liberty principle: well being of the whole of society depends on freedom of its citizens • How does this apply in 2018? Can we trust people to make the right decisions? (what is “right”?)

  14. Is the Body Private Property? • Libertarianism values only individual rights NOT groups, communities, societies • Libertarian philosophy only looks at force, NOT media, ads, class, stereotype, white privilege • “Libertarians don't trust governments...but they also fail to realize that we are the government.” (Decker p. 206)

  15. 17, Anti-Paternalism • Paternalism: government infringement on individual sovereignty • Allow gov. authorities interfere with a person's life to advance someone else's interest • Paternalistic societies = total control • South Park is anti-paternalistic • Does coercive gov. power prevent addiction? • Libertarians think legalization will get rid of black markets, crime, violence...tobacco? • Can't force individuals to change behavior; present them with info/reason and let them be agents

  16. Anti-paternalism in South Park

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