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Point Redemption
Want to read about hippies?
Are you in interested in understanding the cultural revolution that brought real and lasting change to the very fabric of American life in the 1960s?
This is POINT REDEMPTION.
What if a whole generation of Americans suddenly just up and decide that the American dream is a bunch of foolishness? What if thousands and maybe even millions of Americans just one day decide that the whole two-car, two-kid, suburban thing, the nine-to-five rat race thing, the pandemic herd-mentality materialism, the stuff-equals-happiness thing, that all of that, that whole system is just plain wrong?
Let’s say tens of thousands of American citizens give it some hard thought and then decide to pack up and leave America behind, because it’s so screwed up? Interesting idea. Where in the heck would they go?
A whole locusts’ swarm of disillusioned, strung-out urban kids descend on the most remote farms and rural enclaves they can find in the Appalachians and the Rockies and the coastal forests and the Big Sky. What do you think the people who already live around those parts will think?
Back in the day, they called it the Back to Nature movement. A fairly half-assed thing to call a pretty cool idea, if you ask me. It’s often like that; people are very skilled at trivializing the profound. They called us hippies, whatever that was supposed to mean. We were pretty hip, I guess. Whatever. You tell me.
Now then, if a handful of the most hardcore back to nature hippies who ever turned on, tuned in, and dropped out (Tim Leary’s phrase) got together thirty-five years later to create something grand, something beautiful and important and meaningful, in spite of themselves and largely against their own wills…and if the children of a whole community were nurtured and enriched by the wondrous thing these folks cooked up? What about that? What if this ragtag tribe of middle-aged hillhippies pulled off a story beyond all hope and reason? If the circle were unbroken, bye and bye, just like the old song said?
This is Point Redemption, a story about the eventual benefits of taking the long way home.
Are you in interested in understanding the cultural revolution that brought real and lasting change to the very fabric of American life in the 1960s?
This is POINT REDEMPTION.
What if a whole generation of Americans suddenly just up and decide that the American dream is a bunch of foolishness? What if thousands and maybe even millions of Americans just one day decide that the whole two-car, two-kid, suburban thing, the nine-to-five rat race thing, the pandemic herd-mentality materialism, the stuff-equals-happiness thing, that all of that, that whole system is just plain wrong?
Let’s say tens of thousands of American citizens give it some hard thought and then decide to pack up and leave America behind, because it’s so screwed up? Interesting idea. Where in the heck would they go?
A whole locusts’ swarm of disillusioned, strung-out urban kids descend on the most remote farms and rural enclaves they can find in the Appalachians and the Rockies and the coastal forests and the Big Sky. What do you think the people who already live around those parts will think?
Back in the day, they called it the Back to Nature movement. A fairly half-assed thing to call a pretty cool idea, if you ask me. It’s often like that; people are very skilled at trivializing the profound. They called us hippies, whatever that was supposed to mean. We were pretty hip, I guess. Whatever. You tell me.
Now then, if a handful of the most hardcore back to nature hippies who ever turned on, tuned in, and dropped out (Tim Leary’s phrase) got together thirty-five years later to create something grand, something beautiful and important and meaningful, in spite of themselves and largely against their own wills…and if the children of a whole community were nurtured and enriched by the wondrous thing these folks cooked up? What about that? What if this ragtag tribe of middle-aged hillhippies pulled off a story beyond all hope and reason? If the circle were unbroken, bye and bye, just like the old song said?
This is Point Redemption, a story about the eventual benefits of taking the long way home.
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First published February 19, 2011
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