Hippie quotes glorifying being relaxed

Calling all hippies and ex-hippes.

I have a character who has an inner voice who's a hippie, who constantly bombards him with pithy one-liners glorifying spirituality/laziness. Stuff like, "even if you win the rat race, you're still a rat".

Well... I'm running out of them. It's a long novel. Does anybody know a good source... or can just make some good ones up?

They don't have to make any sense. They can be clever on the most superficial level.

Thanks

Shadow_Ferret said:

Just curious why you equate spirituality with laziness.

I'm wondering if you've completely missed what being a hippy was all about.

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I don't. But the pithy one liners must embrace both. It's not about spirituality or hippies. I'm using the stereotype of the pot-head who doesn't want to admit he's simply lazy, but likes to think of it as him being on a spiritual quest. The quotes may very well be genuinely spiritual quotes. But not when this guy uses them.

Also, this stereotype is in the story because it is a stereotype. In the story the reader will understand that it's a silly and stereotypical image. The character is to begin with, a figment of the MC's imagination. So basically... it's just a story. It's a story in the story.

Keep 'em coming guys.

My parents were hippies, and I grew up in various hippie collectives, so I know quite a bit about the hippie lifestyle. My father called himself a beatnik, which he and his friends thought was a huge difference. They didn't like hippies for some reason, which is something that amuses me. And doesn't explain his relationship to my mother, who wasn't ashamed one bit about calling herself a hippie. She has said that feminism was just about lesbians trying to get laid. Yes, I know, it says more about her than feminism.

Going off on a tangent here. I chose to see hippies as a step on the way into modernity. The industrial revolution in England set off a massive chain of events that, broke apart feudalism and the great chain of being. Since the enlightenment, bit by bit authority figures (of all kinds) have been dismantled and rearranged, while avoiding anarchy. This is still going on. Hippies questioned the new authority figures the generation before created for themselves. I don't think we've seen the end of it and I have no idea what sort of a society will come next. Maybe our future authority figures will be transgendered multi-sexual communist robot lovers in space? Or maybe pirate ninjas? It's impossible to say.