Re: Hippies
On Aug 30, 2006, at 10:30 AM, Charles Brown wrote:
Hippism was sort of a demi-generational descendent of Beatnikism.
Both were indigneous American movements against comformity to post
WWII ,American bourgeois culture
Yup, which is both the strength & weakness of the hippie thing. Chuck
Grimes wonderfully evoked all the good stuff about it - but it was
also a deeply individualistic movement. So it devolved easily into
the apolitical lifestyle hippiedom of the 1970s that I remember well
from visits to Key West and living in rural Albemarle County,
Virginia. And now there’s the upscale hippie market segment embodied
by places like Woodstock, NY (93% white; median income, $60,837;
average house value, $394,068)