A Message from the Editorial Board

Readers from all over the world have been writing us recently taking us to task for what they perceive as an overly harsh treatment of hippies in the pages of AOA. It has never been our intention, dear readers, to denigrate or demean the proud and rich hippie culture. For generations hippies, fleeing from persecution and intolerance in foreign lands, have landed on these great shores and found safety and acceptance. By buying and selling marijuana and making wonderful arts and crafts (beaded handbags, dreamcatchers, tie-dyed headbands) they have contributed to society economically. By singing hippie songs and with their unique fashion sensibility, they have contributed culturally. But most importantly, hippies stand for something. Hippies hearts are generally in the right place and if you so much as sneeze, they're ready to let you have it about vegetables or greenhouse gases or some such thing. This is admirable and so we here at the editorial board would like to join with all our readers worldwide in saluting and celebrating the mighty hippie. Huzzah!

These hipsters on the other hand, are a completely different matter:

They stand for nothing except irony and drawing attention to themselves. For more hilarious examples we here on the editorial board would like to draw your attention to this link:

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