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Whatever became of the summer of love?
- digi_owl 9y agohttps://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths https://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths
- thinkfurther 9y agoAlso see the lyrics to "Walkin' on the Sun".
- JKCalhoun 9y agoJerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman a few decades ago did the college circuit holding (mock?) debates regarding "hippy-ism". Abbie Hoffman at this time still looked something like a radical(who, FWIW, wrote a book, "Steal This Book") and claimed that the hippies sold-out and became the yuppies. Jerry Rubin, dressed very much as you would expect a yuppy to dress, didn't disagree but argued, "And why not?" So it became a schism: realism vs. idealism, consumption and material security vs. community and spiritual well-being. Maybe the short answer is, they grew up.
- DanBC 9y agoYou only have to look at some of the ephemera to see that there was plenty of violent ideology around, eg SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men - 1967 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCUM_Manifesto ). If you're interested you might like BAMN - Outlaw Manifestos and Ephemera 1965-1970 https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAMN-Any-Means-Necessary-Manifestos/dp/0140032673 https://www.amazon.co.uk/BAMN-Any-Means-Necessary-Manifestos...
- beams_of_light 9y agoHow do I read this article? 2 pop-ins and no way to dismiss one of them.
- charles-salvia 9y agoIf we were to somehow perform a Principal Component Analysis on the amorphous, contradictory mess of "hippie ideals", we could probably distill them down to something like a call to implement a post-scarcity, socialistic society with few restrictions on human social behavior. Of course, that kind of radical change isn't achieved by smoking pot and playing the guitar in downtown San Francisco. It's achieved by major technological changes that would make such a society even functionally possible, like practically-unlimited renewable energy sources. Needless to say, nobody involved in the 1960s counter-culture movements was in any position to actually implement the kind of changes needed to realize the grand vision of an ideal hippie society. (Some of them tried to do the next best thing, and form their own mini-societies in communes out in the country, all of which ultimately turned out to suck.) I would also note that another 1960s icon, Gene Rodenberry, at least seemed to realize that the kind of changes needed to implement a hippie utopia would likely only be possible after many other practical societal problems were solved via technology.
- vidarh 9y ago> Needless to say, nobody involved in the 1960s counter-culture movements was in any position to actually implement the kind of changes needed to realize the grand vision of an ideal hippie society. Maybe not directly, but a substantial chunk of the hacker culture came from the periphery of it. "What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry" by John Markoff is an interesting exploration of those links. And some people, like Stewart Brandt, were at the nexus of both. Stewart Brandt as part of the Merry Pranksters which was part of kickstarting the hippie community in SF, as the publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog, assisting Doug Engelbart with the Mother of All Demos, and later as a founder of The Well and more recently via the Long Now Foundation.
- aarpmcgee 9y ago"all of which" – seems like a pretty broad statement
- hammock 9y agoDidn't a group try to recreate it fo the 50th anniversary this year, and the city wouldn't permit them for it? (SF)
- mrkrabo 9y agoI like the summer of George better.