An excerpt from Harry Reasoner's 1967 documentary on hippies. Posted because it's an interesting look at how a social movement is viewed as utterly strange and full of portent at the time of its inception. Nowadays, however, hippies are viewed as one among many subcultures, and not very much threat to the mainstream (and my how that definition has changed) at all.
Food for thought, certainly.
(via Andrew Sullivan)
modern equivalent? this report on emos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri6ySOHoDfk
but what a nice dalliance it must have been for those bored middle-class kids.. so serious and earnest, like hipsters today.. but, in the back of their mind knowing they'd still be able to get educated and takeover, and what a good job they did of it. /snark
Posted by: M1k3y | May 25, 2010 at 11:02 PM