By 1969 I knew that the hippie thing was over, few freepers will understand but hippies were not the yippies (political activists), or the kids that were getting stoned and stealing tape decks from cars, and they were not people that left their college dorms for the weekend to visit the hippies that had truly dropped out from the system, hippies weren’t the people that went on to get PHDs and Law degrees and run America’s institution like Hollywood likes to portray.
By 1970 almost all the pure drugs were gone and parts of urban and suburban America was immersed in a dopers world of crummy street drugs and crummy dopers but 1965 through 1968 was a very unique window of where we had a few people that did live the life of hippies, by 1970 and 1971 many hippies had and were still escaping to rural areas to escape the harshness of what their previous haunts had become. Mother Earth News was launched in 1970 and any conservative today can look at it’s early years and approve of it’s back to the land, self sufficiency message of building things and hunting and which shotguns to buy.
...like Hollywood likes to portray.
Again, a huge disconnect between Hollywood and reality.
hey, it’s no coincidence that now Stewart Brand is something of an organic conservative and anti-abortion
I still have an original of the first edition....including my favorite on how to properly cook a placenta in yer tepee
real freaks back then still loved guns...to fight off rednecks with
leftism today is more an extension of yippies, fembots , freedom riders and Stonewalls activists blending together and added to brainwashed youngsters
freaks went country about the same time psychelic music did
being a freak in my day was about drugs, fun, outdoors and women
i gave up drugs long ago....women are much much much more appealing to me than dope or anything else
one has to prioritize
(i know stoners who’d rather get high than chase women...scratching my head)