The Hippie Blog

Writings From The Author Of The Hippie Dictionary

January 15, 2023

War is the stupidest thing human beings do. Anyone who thinks wars have any value to society, culture or individual people is an idiot.

War is the stupidest thing human beings do. Anyone who thinks wars have any value to society, culture or individual people is an idiot. Wars are started by dictators and capitalists to force their agendas and/or make them money, and then the people or countries attracted have to defend themselves...

January 13, 2023

The film and TV producers have no idea what they are doing by desensitizing their viewerss

The present film and TV producers have no idea what they are doing by desensitizing their viewers with all the death, dismemberment and wacky zombie shows out there right now. Sure, they know they are making money, but soon they will have to actually kill someone on camera to attract the bloodthirsty...

January 11, 2023

The House Republicans are now feeling the mindless blockage that the Democrats have felt

The House Republicans are now feeling the mindless blockage that the Democrats have felt from them for years. The astute irony is that the Republicans are going to be dealt it by their own Republicans that have gotten into the mental rut of blocking what they don't understand...

January 07, 2023

First Published by John McCleary in 2017* Planned Obsolescence: The Corporate Joke On The American Public

In primal and tribal societies people worked only to feed, clothe, house and protect themselves. Then they created art and played with family and friends the rest of the time. They had active social and family lives because they worked only for the essentials. Today we work and slave for a lot of...

January 07, 2023

*First published in 2008 by John McCleary* Un-American to Criticize Capitalism

Many people think it is un-American to criticize Capitalism, yet it is actually patriotic to do so. Most Americans do not know that Free Enterprise, not Capitalism, was the actual economic foundation upon which our Founding Fathers built this country. Our country is 232 years old, yet capitalism, ...