Zippie was briefly the name of the breakaway
Yippie
The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on D ...
faction that demonstrated at the 1972
Republican
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and
Democratic Convention
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s in
Miami Beach, Florida
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.
The origin of the word is an evolution of the term Yippie, which was coined by the
Youth International Party
The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on ...
in the 1960s.
After these events, "the Zippies evolved back into Yippies",
but the word ''Zippie'' remained, used by record labels, rock bands, and assorted others.
In subsequent years, ''zippie'' has arisen in reference to 1990s technopeople, in contradiction to
yuppie
Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neu ...
s. In the 1990s,
Fraser Clark
Fraser Clark (d. 21 January 2009), was one of the leaders of the global technogaian movement. As founder and editor of Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, he outlined his views on entheogens and nature, and was a key advocate of the outdoor rave movement, ...
and others created a unique
subculture
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that combined the "1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person". Zippies were thus advocates of
PLUR Peace Love Unity Respect, commonly shortened to PLUR, is a set of principles that is associated with rave culture, originating in the United States. It has been commonly used since the early 1990s when it became commonplace in nightclub and rave fl ...
(Peace Love Unity Respect), which originated on the alt.raves and alt.culture.zippies usenet groups.
1972
Yippie
The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on D ...
(YIP) was an acronym for "''Youth International Party''"; similarly, Zippie (ZIP) was an acronym for "''
Zeitgeist
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a ''Zeitgeist'' () ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force or Daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
Now, the term is usually associated with Georg W. F. ...
International Party''"—a term first coined by
Tom Forcade
Thomas King Forçade (September 11, 1945 – November 17, 1978), also known as Gary Goodson, was an American underground journalist and cannabis rights activist in the 1970s. For many years he ran the Underground Press Syndicate (later called the ...
. This was the name given to the radical breakaway Yippie faction that demonstrated at the 1972
Republican
Republican can refer to:
Political ideology
* An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law.
** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
and
Democratic Convention
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s in
Miami Beach
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.
Zippies reached international prominence during the American 1972
Democratic National Convention
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and 1972
Republican National Convention
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, held in Miami Beach, Florida, USA,
when the word was silk-screened on t-shirts and worn by counter-culture activists and groups working to end US involvement in the
Vietnam War
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.
1994
In May 1994 ''
Wired
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'' magazine published an article titled "Here Come the Zippies!". The cover of the magazine featured a kaleidoscopic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and mechanical eyeglasses. Written by
Jules Marshall
Zippie was briefly the name of the breakaway Yippie faction that demonstrated at the 1972 Republican and Democratic Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida. The origin of the word is an evolution of the term Yippie, which was coined by the Youth Inter ...
, the article announced an organized cultural response to
Thatcherism
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in the
British Isles
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.
There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles. The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, and lowered stress levels. Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon
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be the Woodstock
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of the '90s?
The article describes zippies, according to 50-year-old
Fraser Clark
Fraser Clark (d. 21 January 2009), was one of the leaders of the global technogaian movement. As founder and editor of Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, he outlined his views on entheogens and nature, and was a key advocate of the outdoor rave movement, ...
, as "Zen-Inspired Pronoia Professional", or "hippies with zip." The
UK media tried to pin various labels on the Y Generation such as "cyber-crusties", "
techno-hippies", and "post-ravers."
Fraser Clark
Fraser Clark (d. 21 January 2009), was one of the leaders of the global technogaian movement. As founder and editor of Encyclopaedia Psychedelica, he outlined his views on entheogens and nature, and was a key advocate of the outdoor rave movement, ...
espoused a philosophy known as
pronoia
The ''pronoia'' (plural ''pronoiai''; Greek: πρόνοια, meaning "care" or "forethought," from πρό, "before," and νόος, "mind") was a system of granting dedicated streams of state income to individuals and institutions in the late Byz ...
and embarked on an expedition to the
United States
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. This tour was dubbed the
Zippy Pronoia Tour to US. Other uses of the term are "Zen Inspired Peace Professional."
These zippies were a
New Age
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kind of
hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...
who embraced Chaos Theory,
Blakean revolt, modern mysteries such as New Age
Paganism
Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christianity, early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions ot ...
,
trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from the British new-age music scene and the early 1990s German techno and hardcore scenes.
Trance music is characterized by a tempo generally lying between 135–150 beats per minute ( ...
,
rave
A rave (from the verb: '' to rave'') is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance mus ...
culture,
smart drinks
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History
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,
free software
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, technology and
entrepreneur
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ism in an effort to bring about a better world.
A group called "The Zippies" were behind one of the first acts of
electronic civil disobedience
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with a
collective online action against the 1994 Criminal Justice Bill.
2004
In his book ''
The World Is Flat
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'',
Thomas L. Friedman
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describe zippies as a "huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center".
The original source of the 2004 term "Zippies" comes from an Indian English-language weekly magazine called ''
Outlook
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* Outlook.com, a web mail service from Microsoft
* Outlook on the web, a suite of web applications ...
'' in an article called ''Age Of The Zippie''.
See also
*
Hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...
*
Yippie
The Youth International Party (YIP), whose members were commonly called Yippies, was an American youth-oriented radical and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the late 1960s. It was founded on D ...
*
Counterculture
A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...
*
Electrohippies
The Electrohippies Collective (Ehippies) is an international group of internet activists based in Oxfordshire, England, whose purpose is to express disapproval of governmental policies of mass media censorship and control of the Internet "in order ...
*
Rave
A rave (from the verb: '' to rave'') is a dance party at a warehouse, club, or other public or private venue, typically featuring performances by DJs playing electronic dance music. The style is most associated with the early 1990s dance mus ...
*
Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a culture that differentiates itself from the parent culture to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, poli ...
*
Free Culture
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References
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Friedman, Thomas,
Meet the Zippies, ''
New York Times
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'' (Op-Ed), February 22, 2004
Yippies vs. Zippies: New Rubin book reveals ’70s counterculture feud(
''The Villager'' article by Mary Reinholz, 25 February 2018)
Counterculture
Hippie movement
Youth culture in the United States
1960s neologisms
Yippies