Pathos in "The Flowering of the Hippies"

The text from "The Flowering of the Hippies", which comes from a newspaper article published in 1967 by Mark Harris, pretty much does everything in its power to evoke feelings of disgust, disappointment, and even scorn for the Hippie Movement. Harris' use of Pathos highlights, in cutting detail, the short-comings and worthlessness of the hippie's "Summer of Love" which primarily took place on  Haight Street.
He presents the hippies as the outcasts of society, going so far as to juxtapose them against African Americans and immigrants who were the primary outsiders. He describes the hippies as "dirty from head to toe". He calls their "hip-shop" products "nonsense". He presents them as ignorant fools who proudly wore Nazi swastikas just because they offended the "Establishment". This all works in tandem to elicit anger or shame. He painted the hippies as delusional brats who believed authority only existed to retrain humanity and withhold solutions to problems.  His diction is harsh, using words such as "unreason", "devil theories", "inexperience of life", and "failures of perception" to describe their beliefs. He is sure to let us know that the hippies and their unhygienic lifestyle brought "mountains of garbage", an  increasing amount of rats, food poisoning, hepatitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, and meningitis.
Perhaps his most powerful use of Pathos is when he compared the struggle of the Civil Rights Movement to that of the Hippie Movement. He makes the argument that if the hippies revolved around "community" and "love", what were they contributing to the African Americans in their district? He describes the overwhelming burdens of African Americans in great detail, saying that they "desired the attention of the health department, desired the attention of agencies whom hippies monopolized with appeals for food and housing for the "summer of love." The needs of African Americans were much more urgent than the "needs" of the middle-class, runaway, white hippies who had access to many things. He recalls seeing a young black child working hard to repair his bike next to a group of grown adult hippies just playing around the streets. Overall, through the author's description, the hippies come across as inconsiderate, aloof, irresponsible, immature and self-absorbed. The audience comes away from the reading feeling resentful.

Pathos in Imagine

Through his peaceful tone and lyricism, John Lennon is able to reach out to the audience in a manner that appeals to their sense of humanity. He appeals to pathos by questioning the morality of society as well as creating an image of society as one rather than conceited individuals. Lennon (as well as The Beatles as a whole) reached out to a very large audience, not simply those of the movement, which allows him to reshape the image of the Hippie Movement as a whole by generalizing the main ideals, such as anti-war and anti-materialistic sentiments. His tone conveys a sense of tranquility, which is intended to make the audience focus more on the lyrics rather than the beat. His lyrics, rather than inciting immediate action and change, encourages us to reflect on a different world where all of our reasons for concern are gone. He effectively encourages us to think about the problems with our society and redesign our image of a utopia on Earth. This appeal to our sense of pathos allows for us to better understand the anti-war sentiment and one of the main engines behind the Hippie movement.

Audience in Imagine

In the video, "Imagine" by John Lennon was intended for the skeptics of the Hippie Movement. It was meant for the people who criticized the movement for its radical beliefs. John Lennon uses certain phrases to shed light on the main ideas of the hippie movement. He uses phrases like, "Imagining all the people living in peace", "As we live as one", and "Imagine as one". These phrases shape the audience to perceive the Hippie Movement in a different way. The words he uses makes the movement more relatable to the skeptics. To some people, the Hippie Movement was looked as this crazy and wild movement where people just smoked weed and did drugs. John Lennon changes that image creates a different atmosphere. He shows the Hippie Movement being peaceful, loving, and an environment where people come to be filled with happiness. The video also helps to create this atmosphere but it showing this white house with him playing the piano and singing when his wife Yoko Ono sitting next to him. This image just reflected the message as being one and peaceful.

Stasis in The Flowering of the Hippies

I think that the stasis in “The Flowering of the Hippies” worked as a definition of the hippie movement. When this article was written, the hippie movement was just moving into the area of San Francisco, drawing a lot of attention (as can be seen in the photos in the link attached) as Harris said it “was so very visual that photographers came from everywhere to shoot it, reporters came from everywhere to write it up with speed and opportunists came from everywhere to exploit its drug addiction, its sexual possibility, and its political or social ferment”. This was a new scene that was being introduced to the public and Harris worked to create a definition of what the hippie movement was and how the public should perceive it. He defined it as temporary and transient, composed of people who were going through an identity crisis. They identified themselves as hippies because they were otherwise unsure of their futures and couldn’t commit to social norms. Harris defines the movement as something the public should take notice of and calls attention to the diversity of clothing, activities, drug practices, and music that the hippies brought to the city but that’s it. He characterizes the hippie movement that should be confined and insinuates that the reader shouldn’t partake in it by negatively characterizing the hippies themselves. By publishing the article when the movement was new in the public scene, he influences the opinion that the public has on it and makes them collect information and make observations about the movement with a negative view already embedded in their minds. This view was then expanded on by the people who could see the validity in it but with the basis that Harris created himself.

Photos of the Hippie Movement becoming prevalent in San Francisco where this article was written: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/haight-ashbury-in-the-1960s_n_1967664.html?slideshow=true#gallery/256953/6

Audience in The Flowering of the Hippies

The Flowering of the Hippies is a newspaper article directed to the American public. But, it is very apparent in the text that it is very strongly directed toward the part of the American public that didn't support the hippie movement during its time of publication. It draws a very distinct line between the general public and the hippies by describing to the reader how the hippies were misfits or apart from normal society and without a normal future. The author quotes a fashion model and interpreted her thoughts as "I wish they didn't" exist. He describes that "the eyes of hippies were often in fact sorrowful and frightened" and they were "doubtful who they were", portraying them as a group of misfits and therefore trying to persuade the rest of the population that they should not join this movement and should remain a part of society and focused on their own future and the appropriate norms. But, it seems like in an effort to remain positive and not offend the opinions of a group of the American public, the author does describe good things about the hippie population as well. He praises what a strong community they have built. He also says that while the hippies arrived a minority, they have managed to endure the resistance and grow in numbers. 

Kairos in "The Flowering of Hippies"

The article "The Flowering of Hippies" published in September 1967 by Mark Harris details the mass migration of hippies to Haight Street in San Fransisco. Harris outlines the lifestyle of a hippie as well as the motivation behind their use of psychedelics. A psychedelic head shop was opened in January 1966, which was a large factor in the surge of hippies in the area. The article has an overall investigative tone, where Harris delves into the mind of the hippie at the time. He depicts the typical hippie on Haight St.: shaggy clothing, dirty, hair unwashed. He questions the reliability of the hippies and their ideals due to their demographics. He ignores the visual appearance of the hippies and dives deeper to realize that many of the hippies were middle-class American children. By providing this background, he is able to give insight to his audience which was anyone who was reading the article. He provides these observations in order to answer the questions that many people in the area as well as parents had. Many were intrigued by the drawing factor of hippies to Haight Street however they did not all understand the demographics and habits of the hippies other than their visual appearance. This article was published at the time that many people were beginning to question the massive surge of hippies in the area, and allows for them to have a new insight on who and why.

Ethos in "The Flowering of the Hippies"

Mark Harris wrote an article "The Flowering of the Hippies" in the September 1967 issue of The Atlantic. There wasn't a lot of information on him, so there was no extrinsic ethos. However, he establishes intrinsic ethos in the article. He uses detailed information and strong analysis about the movement which adds to his credibility. He criticizes the confidence of the hippies' messages they were speaking about. He discusses the hippies saying "You Don't Say Love You Do It. Those Who Speak Don't Know Those Who Know Don't Speak". Harris acknowledges that they believed in te actions of the person, not the words. He criticizes them in a way that reveals their honest beliefs but also brings up the controversial topics of the movement. He initiates the topics of LSD usage by the hippies and how it was more than just a thing to do. He believes that they were sad and afraid of their reality so they escaped into this different world through the drug. His analysis brings up a different perspective. It makes the article important and relevant. It makes the reader question their own thoughts about the hippie movement and the hippies. All of his information and analysis adds to his credibility.

Kairos in Imagine

John Lennon's "Imagine", released on October 11, 1971 in his fifth studio album, has become widely known and considered as Lennon's signature song and perhaps his most influential. Within the lyrics, Lennon is asking his audience to imagine the world as a sort of utopia with no violence and war, just peace and harmony. In a biography in photographs written by John Blaney titled John Lennon: In His Life, Blaney states that within the song "Imagine", "Lennon contends that global harmony is within our reach, but only if we reject the mechanisms of social control that restrict human potential." The song manages to reflect many of the ideas of the hippie counterculture. He speaks against nationalism, religion, and politics; concepts directly reflected from the core of the hippie movement. Lennon tries to create a sort of call to action,  presenting the hippie movement in a positive light and describing all of the ways the lifestyle would be an ideal way of life for all of human nature. This probably doesn't come as much of a surprise but the activism of the hippie movement and counterculture was a very controversial in the 60s. A movement that was party built on the heavy use of psychedelics, sexual freedom, new age music, and blatant disrespect of authority and traditional way of life is bound to be met with a bit of backlash. But in Lennon's song, he attempts to present the core, overall, positive goals of the movement that he hopes will benefit everyone, not just the hippies. 

Now, the hippie movement and the more current movements, such as the Black Lives Matter Movement and Feminist activism, are extremely different in many ways. But one thing that they do have in common is that they are often misinterpreted. The Kairos of the Hippie Movement comes from the fact that, like the counterculture movement, there is still confusion as to what exactly the BLMM or what being a feminist really means. There are still uninformed people that believe the BLMM was made solely to benefit African Americans or that Feminism is strictly for women. This obviously isn't the case. Whether or not Lennon was accurate in his depiction of world peace the Hippie Movement could bring to society is left up to interpretation. However the fact that the Hippie Movement was apparently misunderstood is a shared issue that contemporary movements are still facing today.      

Ethos in Imagine

John Lennon’s song Imagine was and remains to be one of the more appreciated song in this country. When writing this song in 1971, John Lennon already had extrinsic ethos of the attention of the public from his association with the Beatles. Set in this time period of great political and social change, John Lennon used Imagine as a way to remind the public to not hold on and base their lives on their material possessions and instead live in the moment. With all this turmoil and change around him, where did this inspiration or notion come from? It came from poet and co-composer of the song Yoko Ono. Ono had written a poem titled Cloud Piece along with others in his book Grapefruit and the sense of peace that this poem is what Lennon created his song around. In addition, Lennon used inspiration from a Christian prayer book and together created an idea of a human world where people aren’t divided by politics or money or anything else and just live. Lennon’s fame in community as well as his ideal posed in a pleasing ad desirable way in this song helped contribute to the hippie movement and it’s effort for peace. 

Cloud Piece: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/4b/7e/db/4b7edb6449ad7f96bb4a6f6acedc0ec7.jpg

Song by John Lennon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8

An article:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1967/09/the-flowering-of-the-hippies/306619/