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Posted: Fri 12:52, 02 Aug 2013 Post subject: Peace, Love, and Social Security- Baby Boomers Ret |
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some are still going--robustly or feebly, publicly orprivately, with the same leadership and ideals they had two or three decades agoor heading in some new direction," he wrote in The 60s Communes.Douglas Stevenson, a 57-year-old former Farm manager andunofficial spokesman for the community, said that for many,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], communal living wasa youthful experiment rather than a lifelong commitment. Because so many youngadults joined communes in the 1960s and 1970s, it followed that they left enmasse in the 1980s when they grew older. "There werepeople who were in it for the long haul and those that weren't," saidStevenson. " It's like hair. There were the people who grew out their hair andit became their life and the people who had long hair then they had curly hairthen they had short hair and it wasn't a whole lifestyle change." What kept the Farm around at all when so many othercommunities disappeared, he said, was that its sheer numbers helped it weatherthe changeover from commune to coop. During
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