ODE TO THE HIPPIE

[摘要] Alas, former flower children are a social oddity. The threatening phenomenon known as the hippie is little more than a ghost of the 1960's-seldom thought about by the 60's generation and hardly known by 70's people. Ten years have scraped too many minds clean. Those optimistic child-people who danced through the streets of San Francisco have even faded out of the memories of their present selves. Metamorphosed into practical human beings? Or have they just grown up? Or do they remember too clearly?...Most tried to rejoin the establishment. As if they could just walk back into their former selves. But the alienation was too complete.The most sensitive and enthusiastic (intelligent?) minds of the 1960's will always be drop-outs or partly-ins—the most ambitious and durable working within the system to gather up whatever they need to get out of it again.Our alienation has settled to the bone. Terminal. We walk around incognito. Up front is our get-along face. One must survive, you know. Inside, we still don't believe in any of it. Do you?

[学科分类] 儿科学