Yup, they glorified being lazy bums who refuse to participate in or contribute to anything of value or merit. But they'll take all right. They'll take everything in sight. Just wander the countryside, subsisting on the crumbs dropped by productive people. It works when only a handful of people are rolling like that. But when a whole generation checks out...
The only bit of the movie that really stuck in my mind was them staying the night at a hippie commune. As they rolled out the following morning, Fonda looked back and said, with the cadence and cocksure obliviousness of a fully baked stoner, "they're gonna make it man, they're gonna make it." It was basically a collection of homeless 20 something's in tee pees, with a bunch of naked toddlers running around. In the middle of a fucking desert. Those two idiots probably spent the night with the manson family and didn't even know it.
They were throwing seeds in the dry dirt on LSD praying for something to grow. Meanwhile they had a goofy theatre stage set up with everyone doing strange interpretation dances. Imagine if everyone worked like a real colony? They could be like the Amish if they had work ethics
Those 1970s hippies led the way.
Yup, they glorified being lazy bums who refuse to participate in or contribute to anything of value or merit. But they'll take all right. They'll take everything in sight. Just wander the countryside, subsisting on the crumbs dropped by productive people. It works when only a handful of people are rolling like that. But when a whole generation checks out...
The only bit of the movie that really stuck in my mind was them staying the night at a hippie commune. As they rolled out the following morning, Fonda looked back and said, with the cadence and cocksure obliviousness of a fully baked stoner, "they're gonna make it man, they're gonna make it." It was basically a collection of homeless 20 something's in tee pees, with a bunch of naked toddlers running around. In the middle of a fucking desert. Those two idiots probably spent the night with the manson family and didn't even know it.
They were throwing seeds in the dry dirt on LSD praying for something to grow. Meanwhile they had a goofy theatre stage set up with everyone doing strange interpretation dances. Imagine if everyone worked like a real colony? They could be like the Amish if they had work ethics