Ivana Knezevic
Aug 9, 2017 · 1 min read

Thank you for pointing it out!

If you hadn’t I would have. What a disagreeable, plain nasty attitude!

In all of the history of West approaching East those young people on that “hippie trail” were the best ambassadors of the West, even with the long hair and barefoot. They came in peace and they left in peace. They did not cause the war in Afghanistan, they did not come to loot, colonize and conquer. They were not offensive — not even when bathing naked in Ganges, or by the well in Goa. Thousands of sadhus do it too. The first people I saw wearing nothing but g-strings were the Goan fishermen.

As a matter of fact many of the Americans were there because they just did not want to take part in the war in Vietnam.

Hippies may have been naive. Yes, they also experimented with drugs. But what I see in the photos are beautiful open and honest faces. I see no greed and evil in those eyes .

No, they were not the start up entrepreneurs with a burning ambition and a sole goal in life to become rich and powerful. That was not their idea of happiness and success. Maybe that is why the author of this post finds them absurd and hates them so much. He is not even able to comprehend what these young people were about.

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