Aug 8, 2017 · 1 min read
It’s interesting how you paint all these people as simply seeking out cheap drugs. What I see is a bunch of people genuinely giving up Christianity in favour of Eastern religions, and this being a sort of religious pilgrimage for them.
Which is exactly what it was all about, most of the time. But the establishment back home thought the story that you told was *much* more interesting — especially in discrediting the hippies.
And every propagandist knows that a little pornography helps grab a bunch of eyeballs in the process.