"Hunter S. Thompson- The Hippies" - читать интересную книгу автора (Thompson Hunter S)

an anti-culture hero at the same time as he was also becoming
a hot commercial property. His banner of alienation appeared
to be planted in quicksand. The very society he was trying to
drop out of began idealizing him. He was famous in a hazy kind
of way that was not quite infamy but still colorfully
ambivalent and vaguely disturbing.
Despite the mass media publicity, hippies still sufferтАФor
perhaps notтАФfrom a lack of definition. The Random House
Dictionary of the English Language was a best seller in 1966,
the year of its publication, but it had no definition for
"hippie." The closest it came was a definition of "hippy":
"having big hips; a hippy girl." Its definition of "hip" was
closer to contemporary usage. "Hip" is a slang word, said
Random House, meaning "familiar with the latest ideas, styles,
developments, etc.; informed, sophisticated, knowledgeable
[?]." That question mark is a sneaky but meaningful piece of
editorial comment.





Everyone seems to agree that hippies have some kind of
widespread appeal, but nobody can say exactly what they stand
for. Not even the hippies seem to know, although some can be
very articulate when it comes to details.
"I love the whole world," said a 23-year-old girl in San
Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, the hippies' world
capital. "I am the divine mother, part of Buddha, part of God,
part of everything.
"I live from meal to meal. I have no money, no possessions.
Money is beautiful only when it's flowing; when it piles up,
it's a hang-up. We take care of each other. There's always
something to buy beans and rice for the group, and someone
always sees that I get 'grass' [marijuana] or 'acid' [LSD]. I
was in a mental hospital once because I tried to conform and
play the game. But now I'm free and happy."
She was then asked whether she used drugs often.
"Fairly," she replied. "When I find myself becoming confused I
drop out and take a dose of acid. It's a short cut to reality;
it throws you right into it. Everyone should take it, even
children. Why shouldn't they be enlightened early, instead of
waiting till they're old? Human beings need total freedom.
That's where God is at. We need to shed hypocrisy, dishonesty,
and phoniness and go back to the purity of our childhood
values."
The next question was "Do you ever pray?"
"Oh yes," she said. "I pray in the morning sun. It nourishes
me with its energy so I can spread my love and beauty and
nourish others. I never pray for anything; I don't need