Fucking hippies...

I don't hate all hippies. But I certainly hate the one's that smoke pot all day, hold drum circles in the rain, and preach about how we should never cut down a single tree again. Ever.

They're wrong and ignorant, and no amount Ben Harper or John Lennon listening is going to change things.

I haven't always hated hippies. I blame Thunder Bay for that. Lakehead University, where I spent two years has what I would call a large, hippie population. Hardcore hippies are some of the most useless people on Earth. With all their talk of bettering the environment they sure waste a lot. Animal rights are great as long as they can keep wearing leather sandals and wool socks in the winter.

I made up my mind on hippies when I talked to a hardcore hippie who was proudly sporting a genuine tiger's tooth as a necklace. Then she ran into the woods barefoot to squish her toes in the mud. Way to go, eco-warrior.

This video on The Hour, shows a new type of filthy hippie; the "Freegan". A freegan is a person who eats trash. The freegan slogan is "We won't buy your crap, but we'll eat your scrap."

All disgust aside for a moment, freegans could bring a lot of awareness to the issue that people toss away decent food all the time. As Hillary Doyle says, "You'd be shocked by the good stuff that is thrown out in people's trash."

But in true hippie fashion, they don't eat garbage to prove a point, they do it because it's a perverted form of ego-masturbation.

Want to be a freegan? Why not GROW your own food? Even better, start a city community of back-yard farmers and trade. It might work better for community awareness instead of half-assing it and scavenging. Hippies can be so short-sighted.

This Toronto couple, also on The Hour, has a much more reasonable approach to being eco-friendly and they don't seem interested in just saving a buck for pot and video games. Sarah McGaughey's interest in integrating more in their community is commendable and Kyle Glover's opening comment was very realistic and frightening.

Frightening because if we were all forced to throw our garbage in our own backyards, we'd probably have pot-head freegans hopping our fences, starting drum circles and eating our perfectly good trash.

Goddam hippies!