- Zippie
Zippie is a term used to describe a person who does something for nothing, i.e. zip. Any supporter of free culture, free food, free books, free software is a zippie.Fact|date=July 2008
Zippies reached international prominence during the American
1972 Democratic National Convention and1972 Republican National Convention , held inMiami Beach, Florida , when the term was silk-screened on t-shirts and worn by counter-culture activists and groups working to end the US involvement in theVietnam War .The origin of the word is an evolution of the term
yippie , which was coined by theYouth International Party in the 1960s. In subsequent years, Zippie became a term used to describe a 1990s technoperson, in contradiction toyuppie . The modern incarnation of Zippies were an attempt by Fraser Clark and others, to create a uniquesubculture that combined the 1990s techno hemisphere with the 1960s earth person. The result was not always what one would expect. Various incarnations of Zippies exist, usually armed with smiley badges and outspokenly anti-Yuppie. They are mainly found inChina andJapan , where various youth groups have taken up the banner left behind by the earlier groupings. They listen mainly todance music , hang-out atclub s and drink smart drinks andfruit juice . Every now and then they come across other Zippie Tribes from across theplanet and exchange music samples and leaflets.UK/US (1994)
In May 1994
Wired Magazine published an article titled " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/zippies.html Here Come the Zippies!] ". The cover of the magazine featured a psychedelic image of a smiling young man with wild hair, a funny hat, and crazy eyeglasses. Written byJules Marshall , the article announced an organized cultural response toThatcherism in theBritish Isles .:"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 be the Woodstock of the '90s?"
The article describes Zippies, according to 50-year-old Fraser Clark, as "Zen-Inspired Professional Pagans", or "hippies with zip". Apparently well known in the UK where the media had tried to pin various labels on them such as cyber-crusties, techno-hippies, and post-ravers, the Zippies leader
Fraser Clark intended to bring aPronoia (psychology) attitude to theUnited States . This effort was dubbed the Zippy Pronoia Tour to US.In his book "
The World is Flat ",Thomas L. Friedman describe Zippie as "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".These Zippies were a
new-age kind ofhippie who embraced modernpaganism ,trance music ,rave , cyber-tech and enterpreneurism in an effort to bring about a better world.ee also
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Club Kids
*Counterculture
*Rave
*Subculture References
*Marshall, Jules, " [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/zippies.html Zippies!] ", "
Wired Magazine ", issue 2.05, May 1994
*Friedman, Thomas, " [http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/22/opinion/22FRIE.html?ex=1392786000&en=3ca3dfa9709cb8e1&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND Meet the Zippies] ", "New York Times " (Op-Ed), February 22, 2004
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