(I move the hippie topic here)
“Hippies got a bad wrap by journalist interested in selling sensational stories.”
Could you tell more about that? I thought that was mainly some conservative outlets?
It is not limited to some conservative outlets? Was the negative coverage of the hippie movement very dense? Which outlet do that concern, for instance?
“there were plenty of freeloader hippies”
What do you mean by “freeloader”?
That reminds me of a testimony in this show by a French mucic player, the bassist Corine Marienneau, from the group called Téléphone (famous during the 1970s, 1980s, very influenced by the Rolling Stones), who explained that she tried to live in little communes, but realized it was “always the same who do the work” (understand, the day-to-day duties, household, etc.).
Btw, I realize Corine Marienneau illustrates what I was saying above:
because she explained in another interview that Guy Debord’s book[1] was “the reference book” when she was 16 (she says in this interview: “we were not anarchists, I considered myself a situationnist”). She comes for a middle class Parisian family, and had 16 years old in May 1968. She worked as au pair for one year in Princeton.
[1] Guy Debord is the leader of the situationnist movement, an heir of the surralist movement