What the hell is that crap?

How does that pass as... as... well anything relating to news?

I'm not blaming you, I'm blaming IMC for being dumb.

Good things: bikes, transit, organic gardening, regional thinking, local action, nonviolence, healing, connection, anarchism.

Bad things: hippies, religion.

Why do people who start to 'get it' about the sickness of this civilization so often slide into a refuge just as dumb as that of the picket-fence talk radio car commuters? Blech.

I feel like most teasing of hippies in Portland is at least slightly an expression of a soft spot--a recognition of an alternate, parallel path that's really not so far from our own, that seems to remind us how we could quickly become out of touch and irrelevant. My parents were and are hippies, and I love them dearly. But when I see (young) hippies today still vaguely fetishising some sort of back-to-the-land, pastoral anarchist-communalist fantasy--I can't help feel that they're as likely to contribute to the anti-urban practices that have lead us to the point at which we now find ourselves. It strikes me that what may once have been a natural, perhaps necessary reaction to an artificially homoginised reality has become an anachronistic escapism.

Of course, I don't see a big difference between young fashion-hippies at Last Thursday and young fashion-hipsters at the Tube Bar on any Friday--it's all aesthetics. Irrelevance is never far off in either case--it's just that the Goddess is leading the way on one hand, and Pitchforkmedia.com is leading the way on the other.