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Hippies: America
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If hippies didn't like any of the traditional religions, then they could always invent one. In the first days around Haight Ashbury there were two churches which had a goodly number of hippie members: the Church of the New Awakening and the Neo-American Church. If you read the doctrines now, they come off as something you'd see in a comedy club skit. But at the time, the members took them seriously. The teachings of the Neo-American Church included taking drugs (which they said were not drugs, but sacramental foods), and the ministers were called Boo-Hoos. The Church of the New Awakening ... permitted use of drugs and said everyone should practice what spiritual disciplines they feel are useful.
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The years since the 1960's have seen a noticable decline in the number of hippies worldwide. In 1968 there were perhaps millions of hippies roaming the forests and plains of america. That number has shrunk down to the tens of thousands and is expected to continue declining in the future. Fewer and fewer hippies are born each year, while their natural enemies the emo kids have seen a surge in population. The cause of this may be a result of recent urbanization in certain areas of the world that makes the land unsuitable for hippies because cities totally kill their buzz, man. All that government and cement is just, like, bad.
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[A] LOT of things have gone diametrically opposite to what the hippies wanted. There is certainly no guaranteed minimum wage (once a banner cry for hippies). If anything, big business has grown even more megalithic and monopolistic than ever. Universal health care is as much a fantasy as it ever was, with comprehensive health programs now being the exclusive right for high level business executives, Senators, Congressmen, and American Presidents.
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Its latest issue, No. 155, features "Hippies," an essay by Denis Johnson on the Rainbow Gathering festival. Johnson, the critically acclaimed author of "Jesus' Son" and "The Name of the World," will publish a collection of his nonfiction work, "Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond," next year.
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Death due to drugs and the social carnage heaped upon America by hippies is nothing to celebrate. That is a fool's game, but it is quite apparent some burned-out hippies never learn.
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