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  Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, a deep-seated social discontent developed among young people in the United States. These were men who’d been forced to fight a war they didn’t believe in only to return home to a country that didn’t want them.

  The country was filled with college graduates lacking any job prospects, young women who refused to lead their mothers’ lives, and the myth of an “equal” society that couldn’t seem to shake its nasty history of segregation and inequality.

  The product of this dissatisfaction was hippie culture, and from hippie culture sprang hippie communes–group living spaces, communities, or villages where like minded individuals could live simply like their agrarian ancestors (usually with the help of some mind altering substances). And, most notably, hippies placed communal needs and values above individual rights. 

  As University of Kansas professor Timothy Miller said, “Reason had run its course; now it was time to return to the mystical and intuitional… the hippies rejected the industrial for the agrarian, the plastic for the natural, the synthetic for the organic.”



 LES GENDARMES EN BALADE, 1970

 


The relationship between this passage of the film and the modern version of the myth explained above is that the community leads a life together, with reduced moyens, are sharing their property, live close to natures and are very open. 

TENERIFE'S HIPPIES

On the famous island, a few kilometers from the paunchy tourists, individuals have chosen to live in break with the surrounding world. 



A few kilometers from the most consumerist cities is a community that is the opposite of such a way of life. La Caleta is a beach that is home to a hippie community whose members have chosen to live as simply as possible, in communion with nature. The majority of residents installed their shelter directly in the rock wall, while the others built small huts on the beach. 



















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  1. Philippe ThivillierOctober 8, 2019 at 11:41 AM

    OK. This seems to be on topic.
    That said, I need to read your blog post through.

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