Bbm... Interesting... Jumping off your post Gitana1
What is perhaps revealing is the cross generational / cultural choices.
The video of Devonte dancing in his skivvies, listening to Cat Stevens & Joni Mitchell... Huh? Where is Sly Stone & Jimi Hendrix?
The Hippies, the originals, were, yes known for privileged resistance to Victorianism, nudity in the mud, but really were actually quite the amalgamation. Look at the original Woodstock lineup and one can see the breadth of that movement. The astonishing discoveries and gifts that were voiced and shared is really unmatched. -IMO.
Why? Because original movements, good or bad, take in much history proceeding them, like a starburst. Historically, I think the 60's was decades in the making.
We witnessed many, many groups, peoples, causes, cultures come together in what I can only describe as a renaissance of art, music, culture, resistance, and a moon landing.
The west coast, SF, LA, was in so many ways the original image of this hippie movement... Flower power. But the whole country was its soul in an expansion that was like riding a tiger. It's defining force was age, youth had the power and original expression.
The new age festivals now, of the west in particular, to me feel nostalgic. Its peace, love, earth, togetherness, hugs, acceptance, is reminiscent of a time of discovery. And it was the choice expression of J&S, their values, their feeling of acceptance as (I think) a couple. It was about them. It is why we see their "tribe" there, and not at a festival in say, Austin, or even deeper, New Orleans, or Chicago.
The PNW gave us Kurt Cobain. It took me a long time to warm up to him, but I think he was a genius in describing raw soul. And in the videos I've seen of these groups there is perhaps that nostalgia, too?
One of the finest messages of the peace, love movement is the wide angle lens of the love of planet earth, this celestial being recognized as a gift. Peace, not war. But, in its diluted form, there is subliminal exclusion in its community of predominantly one race posing as a voice for all tribes...
This is the filter that these six children were raised. I am struck by the image of Devonte, Jeremiah, and Abigail laying in the grass, with the books. The politics. The effect of current events. And what was up with Hannah accusing her moms of racism when she jumped out of a window and ran to the neighbors, as was published by many news outlets...
http://katu.com/news/local/neighbor...d-begged-for-food-sarah-jennifer-hart-devonte
I would venture to say that many worlds were colliding when Jen drove off that cliff.
