modern hippies fail at hippiedom, exhibit 37
I read the news every day. Any given day in my life you can be sure of two things. I will drink coffee and i will read the news. To be honest, i mostly just glance the headlines because that's enough to give me general overview of what is going on in the world, but there are always a couple of articles a day that warrant a clickthrough
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In the context i have been talking about on this thread i am mostly thinking about hippie and rave type festivals, that is... psychedelic rock, folk music, electronic music, world music, poetry recitals, independent film, circus acts, installation art, trippy light shows, playground equipment designed for adults, weird situationist performances, vegan food, cauldrons full of chai, yoga, meditation, cacao, random other appropriated new age rituals... and all that against a backdrop of nature, out in the sticks somewhere.
But of course there are urban versions of the same thing. And there are varying degrees of the same thing, like more musically oriented, or more spiritually oriented, or more capital-A Art oriented. So the broader you try to cast the net, the less you can really generalize.
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But I think most events go through a big sea-change when they become overtly "popular".... where the attendees are less and less involved with the reason the event is taking place, and start showing up simply because there is an Event Taking Place, irrelative of it's meaning/purpose....
... what I mean is....
... fucking tourists.
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