Video: Flower children who left home in the 70s: rare color photographs of a hippie commune
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
These guys called for making love, and war for her. They left home and lived by their own rules in communes far from civilization. In our photo review - rare color photos of hippiesmade in America in 1970s.
The hippie subculture originated in America in the 1960s. Young people, united by the ideas of universal love and pathosism, striving to live freely and at ease, formed communes in the desert regions of the United States. Many congregations were formed in the western, southwestern regions and New England. The flower children lived in wooden log cabins that resembled barracks, and they all worked together. They divided the earned money among all members of the commune, established their own rules and taboos.
Many hippies who decided to leave civilized life previously lived in such large areas as the East Village in New York or Haight Ashbury in San Francisco. Someone ran away from police persecution, someone was simply disillusioned with the urban world. They found pleasure and tranquility in communication with like-minded people, in feasible work and mutual love, all this, according to the hippies, led to spiritual purification and revival of a person.
The hippies did not have a single religion; representatives of different faiths gathered in the communes. Members of the community included Christians, Hindus and even Zen Buddhists. In some communes, the use of LSD and marijuana was encouraged, it was believed that drugs contribute to the expansion of consciousness, and therefore - enlightenment. Views on sex life were also quite democratic, although in most communes it is still customary to live in traditional monogamous families. True, all members of the commune, as well as older children, are usually involved in raising babies. It is believed that this is a large family in which everyone is worried about each other.
Of course, not all those who were fascinated by the ideas of a free life fled from civilization. The golden youth in American schools looked even more colorful than the "forest" inhabitants of the communes. Evidence of this - 14 photos of high school students who succumbed to the "new" trend of hippie culture, taken in 1969.
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