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This article should really be titled "The Street Kids Of Hippy Hill." By going to one place in order to get a feeling for "street kids," they've gotten an extr
by moxie 14y ago
This article should really be titled "The Street Kids Of Hippy Hill." By going to one place in order to get a feeling for "street kids," they've gotten an extremely myopic view of that scene.
The full picture is much more varied. Traveler kids who go to hobo gatherings would never be caught dead at a rainbow gathering. Rainbow family kids don't drink, and alcohol is even forbidden at gatherings (where nothing else is forbidden). Gutter punks live to spange for 40s. Anarcho punks would rather starve than fly a sign.
Each has its own music scene, its own values, its own social norms. For this article to suggest that most street kids don't have a political analysis might be true for hippy hill, but isn't true at all for the squatter scene (see 'homes not jails' and 'food not bombs' for instance).
- grinich 14y agoWill you write a blog post about this?
- peterwwillis 14y agoHe has a few here: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/stories.html http://www.thoughtcrime.org/stories.html IMO, learning about the sub-groups of the "street person" culture isn't going to net you much useful knowledge. A lot of the differences between people here are political, ethical or social (anarchists, hippies, gangs). At some point you realize everyone's just living out a script.
- php_on_rails2 14y agoYou call that trash "music"? But seriously. Joking aside, here in the real world, we call squatting "trespassing". These kids just live off the fat of the land. You know what I'm talking about. Fat tourists! I swear to god, the first time I saw one of these kids, my heart opened up to them, along with my stupid wallet. "Need money (f)or weed." Well, fool me once.