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The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias by David Jacob Kramer for GQ

Half a century ago, a legion of idealists dropped out of society and went back to the land. Here, the last of those rogue souls offer a glimpse of the tail end of a grand social experiment.

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[matsushima]

Thank you for sharing this! I've had it open in my tabs to read later since you posted it and I finally got around to reading.

I guess I can't relate to the optimism that must've propelled people to move out into the woods like that: Society is bad but we can build something better. I wish I could, though.