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Hippie (also hippy) is a term originally used to describe some of the rebellious youth of the 1960s and 1970s. The word hippie was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen. Caen's articles were always written with the help of notes and letters from his San Francisco fan base. He is also credited as among the first to include the words beatnik and yuppie in his column. Though not a cohesive cultural movement with manifestos and leaders, some hippies expressed their desire for change with ... Including:

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• Hippie - Drugs
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• Hippie - Pejorative connotations
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• Hippie - European countercultures after WW2
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Simple living (similar but not identical to voluntary simplicity or voluntary poverty) is a lifestyle individuals may pursue for a variety of motivations, such as spirituality, health, or ecology. Others may choose simple living for reasons of social justice or a rejection of consumerism. Some may emphasize an explicit rejection of "western values", while others choose to live more simply for reasons of personal ... Including:

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Individualist anarchism, while being advocated among some European philosophers in various forms, has a distinctive flavor in The United States of America. American individualist anarchism includes strong advocacy of private property and a competitive free market economy. It is sometimes called market anarchism. Individualist anarchism is sometimes regarded as a form of "liberal-anarchism" by those who see it is a radicalized version of classical liberalism (American Liberal-Anarchism), while many collectivist and indivi ... Including:

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• American individualist anarchism - Josiah Warren
• American individualist anarchism - Stephen Pearl Andrews
• American individualist anarchism - William B. Greene
• American individualist anarchism - Ezra Heywood
• American individualist anarchism - Benjamin Tucker
• American individualist anarchism - Lysander Spooner
• American individualist anarchism - Others
• American individualist anarchism - Terminological disputes
• American individualist anarchism - Conflicts within American individualist anarchism

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From the 2nd millennium BC various Hindu and Buddhist groups in the Eastern world had established a voluntarily simplified spiritual lifestyle. This practice continued with various Abrahamic religious movements in the Middle East and Europe. Various notable individuals have claimed that spiritual inspiration led them to a simple living lifestyle, such as Francis of Assisi, Ammon Hennacy and Mahatma Gandhi. In North America, religious groups including the Shakers, Mennonites, Amish, and some Quakers have for centuries practised lifesty ...

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American individualist anarchism - Josiah Warren. Main article: Josiah Warren Josiah Warren is generally considered to be the first individualist anarchist in the American tradition. He also issued what some believe to be the first anarchist periodical ever published, called The Peaceful Revolutionist in 1833. Warren had participated in a failed collectivist experiment headed by Robert Owen called "New Harmony" and came to the conclusion that such a system is inferior to one where individualism and private property is allowed. In Practical Detail ...

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A Walk to Wachusett is an essay penned by Henry David Thoreau about a journey he took with companion, Richard Fuller, from Concord, Massachusetts to the summit of Mount Wachusett located in Princeton, Massachusetts. Their journey, by foot, began on July 19, 1842. Traveling through Acton, Stow, Bolton, Lancaster and Sterling, they reached West Sterling by sunset and lodged at a local inn. Reaching the summit the following day, they had traveled a distance of approximately 34 miles. Time was spent on the summit exploring, ...

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In the 1940s and 1950s the term hipster came into usage by the American Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and evolved to also describe the bohemian-like counterculture that formed around the art of the time. The 1960s hippie culture evolved from the beat culture, and was greatly influenced by changing music style and the creation of rock & roll from jazz. The first use of the word hippie on television was on WNBC TV Channel 4 in New York City at the opening of the New York World's Fa ...

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Main articles: Anarcho-capitalism, Individualist anarchism and anarcho-capitalism Anarcho-capitalism differs from traditional individualist anarchism in that it does not accept the labor theory of value. As a result, anarcho-capitalists do not regard profit as exploitative. Also, whereas most of the classical individualists oppose titles to unused land, anarcho-capitalists support it as long as it was acquired by the possessor through labor (in the case of unowned land) or trade --it need not be in continual use to retain title.

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Early individualist anarchists of the late 19th and early 20th century in America (historically called "Boston anarchism" at times, often derogatorily) include Josiah Warren, Ezra Heywood, Joshua K. Ingalls, William B. Greene, Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, Stephen Pearl Andrews, John William Lloyd, Henry Bool, Steven T. Byington, Victor Yarros, Joseph Labadie, Laurance Labadie, Henry Appleton, and Clarence Lee Swartz. Contemporary theorists of the same philosophical ...

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Although some religious and political movements may encourage such practices, simple living itself is apolitical. There is no basic conflict in living simply and espousing most political theories. One could, for example, be a totalitarian monarch who espouses simple living, such as by sumptuary laws. Many Green Parties have been much influenced by the above groups and often advocate voluntary simplicity as a consequence of their "four pillars" or the "Ten Key Values" of the United States Green party. This includes in policy terms reje ...

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Living simply may involve re-considering what is "appropriate technology", as anabaptist groups such as the Amish or Mennonites have done. People who practice simple living have very different views on the role of technology. Some, such as Theodore Kaczynski, propose outright rejection while others see the internet as a key criteria to increased simple living in the future. The idea of food miles, which are the number of miles a given piece of food has travelled between the farm and the table, is used by simple living advocates to arg ...

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Some people who practice voluntary simplicity act consciously to reduce their need for purchased services or goods and, by extension, their need to sell their time for money. Some will spend the extra free time this generates helping their family or others in a voluntary way. Others may spend the extra free time to improve their own quality of life, without regard for the well being of others. Liv ...

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The word economy can refer to any of several things: The "economy" of the world — see world economy The "economy" of a country — see economics and economic system Economy is financial soundness or affordability. Hydrogen economy Judicial economy New Economy Political economy Plutonium economy Economy (Eastern Orthodoxy) (a bishop's discretionary power to relax rules) Economy, Indiana Economy, Pennsylvania Econo

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In popular culture, something "insane" is something extremely foolish, while persons may be deemed "insane" if their behavior strongly deviates from accepted social norms. The term is typically negative, but departure from established norms may also be seen as a positive quality; in this case, being "insane" is being daringly unconventional or individualistic. This use of insane is illustrated by the following quote from Henry David Thoreau ...

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1845 - Month/day unknown. Second separation of Republic of Yucatan from Mexico Beginning of the Irish potato famine. James K. Polk succeeds John Tyler as President of the United States of America Ephraim Bee reveals that the Emperor of China has given him a special dispensation; that he had entrusted him with certain sacred and mysterious rituals through Caleb Cushing, the US Commissioner to China, to "extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus V ...

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1847 - January. January 4 - Samuel Colt sells his first hoe to the United States government. January 13 - The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. January 30 - Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. 1847 - February. February 22 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops under Genera ...

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