The "hippie" was a media creation intended to discredit the growing number of people using and publicly advocating psychedelics. Rather ironic, considering CIA experiments let the psychedelic genie out of the bottle in the first place.

Tim Leary's slobbering after media attention made the propaganda campaign very effective, giving the CIA loads of ammunition with his hare-brained pronouncements and his stupid glorification of juvenile delinquency.

The media Frankenstein was a perfect cover for spooks infiltrating anti-war/neo-Marxist groups like the Weathermen and generally discrediting Heads--those apolitical Psychedelians who just wanted to opt out of American life for something less soul-crushing somewhere in the country. Some had the gumption to succeed, but most were pampered city kids who became disillusioned when faced with the long hours and hard work that go into homesteading.

We owe the Heads for rational ecological environmentalism and sane, Wendell Berry-style conservationism and what we now call "off-grid" homesteading.

"Hippies" were pampered teenagers wandering around looking for a Messiah to substitute for their parents; they bought Leary's PR nonsense and joined radical campus groups for the Politically Confused. The hippies were the equivalent of today's SJW. The Heads are now in their dotage or pushing up daisies on the south forty next to the chicken coop, but their kids are good people and solid rural citizens, for the most part. Some continue to find a place for psychedelics in their lives, some don't. Unfortunately, neo-hippies are still around, fouling the air with their stupid pronouncements about the glories of dank kind bud and 'shrooms, dude, standing cheek-to-jowl with New-Agers, another afterbirth of the psychedelic revolution.

Heads are keeping a low profile these days.

The "hippie" was a media creation intended to discredit the growing number of people using and publicly advocating psychedelics. Rather ironic, considering CIA experiments let the psychedelic genie out of the bottle in the first place.

Tim Leary's slobbering after media attention made the propaganda campaign very effective, giving the CIA loads of ammunition with his hare-brained pronouncements and his stupid glorification of juvenile delinquency.

The media Frankenstein was a perfect cover for spooks infiltrating anti-war/neo-Marxist groups like the Weathermen and generally discrediting Heads--those Psychedelians who just wanted to opt out of American life for something less soul-crushing somewhere in the country. Some had the gumption to succeed, but most were pampered city kids who became disillusioned when faced with the long hours and hard work that go into homesteading.

We owe the Heads for rational ecological environmentalism and sane, Wendell Berry-style conservationism and what we now call "off-grid" homesteading.

"Hippies" were pampered teenagers wandering around looking for a Messiah to substitute for their parents; they bought Leary's PR nonsense and joined radical campus groups for the Politically Confused. The hippies were the equivalent of today's SJW. The Heads are now in their dotage or pushing up daisies on the south forty next to the chicken coop, but their kids are good people and solid rural citizens, for the most part. Some continue to find a place for psychedelics in their lives, some don't. Unfortunately, neo-hippies are still around, fouling the air with their stupid pronouncements about the glories of dank kind bud and 'shrooms, dude, standing cheek-to-jowl with New-Agers, another afterbirth of the psychedelic revolution.

Heads are keeping a low profile these days.

The "hippie" was a media creation intended to discredit the growing number of people using and publicly advocating psychedelics.

Tim Leary's slobbering after media attention made the propaganda campaign very effective, giving the CIA loads of ammunition with his hare-brained pronouncements and his stupid glorification of juvenile delinquency.

The media Frankenstein was a perfect cover for spooks infiltrating anti-war/neo-Marxist groups like the Weathermen and generally discrediting Heads--those Psychedelians who just wanted to opt out of American life for something less soul-crushing somewhere in the country. Some had the gumption to succeed, but most were pampered city kids who became disillusioned when faced with the long hours and hard work that go into homesteading.

We owe the Heads for rational ecological environmentalism and sane, Wendell Berry-style conservationism and what we now call "off-grid" homesteading.

"Hippies" were pampered teenagers wandering around looking for a Messiah to substitute for their parents; they bought Leary's PR nonsense and joined radical campus groups for the Politically Confused. The hippies were the equivalent of today's SJW. The Heads are now in their dotage or pushing up daisies on the south forty next to the chicken coop, but their kids are good people and solid rural citizens, for the most part. Some continue to find a place for psychedelics in their lives, some don't. Unfortunately, neo-hippies are still around, fouling the air with their stupid pronouncements about the glories of dank kind bud and 'shrooms, dude, standing cheek-to-jowl with New-Agers, another afterbirth of the psychedelic revolution.

Heads are keeping a low profile these days.

The "hippie" was a media creation intended to discredit the growing number of people using and publicly advocating psychedelics.

Tim Leary's slobbering after media attention made the propaganda campaign very effective, giving the CIA loads of ammunition with his hare-brained pronouncements and his stupid glorification of juvenile delinquency.

The media Frankenstein was a perfect cover for spooks infiltrating anti-war/neo-Marxist groups like the Weathermen and generally discrediting Heads--those Psychedelians who just wanted to opt out of American life for something less soul-crushing somewhere in the country. Some had the gumption to succeed, but most were pampered city kids who became disillusioned when faced with the long hours and hard work that go into homesteading.

We owe the Heads for rational ecological environmentalism and sane, Wendell Berry-style conservationism and what we now call "off-grid" homesteading.

"Hippies" were pampered teenagers wandering around looking for a Messiah to substitute for their parents; they bought Leary's PR nonsense and joined radical campus groups for the Politically Confused. The hippies were the equivalent of today's SJW. The Heads are now in their dotage or pushing up daisies on the south forty next to the chicken coop, but their kids are good people and solid rural citizens, for the most part. Some continue to find a place for psychedelics in their lives, some don't. Unfortunately, neo-hippies are still around, fouling the air with their stupid pronouncements about the glories of dank kind bud and 'shrooms, dude, standing cheek-to-jowl with New-Agers, another afterbirth of the psychedelic revolution.