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[quote=Dirk]
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No delusion here. I have not spent the last almost 60 years under a rock. Give me just a little credit please. That "older generation" are just "young idealistic hippies" that never grew up. That is why they want to hang with people less than half their age. And I heard all those "buzz words" about life in an authoritarian capitalist society for at least 50 years. One of those old hippies ran off with my 17 year old daughter a few years ago. The next thing I heard from her she called me crying and said, "Daddy Benji killed himself". When I got to the hospital she was wearing most of his brains on her. So I did not just fall off a turnip truck in the last couple of years. I have some real life experience, not just theories. There are real reasons why that crap never caught on in most places.

That is the last I will have to say on this subject. Because I know I am wasting my time. So let everyone keep making the same mistakes over and over for the next 50 years. Let everyone learn the hard way. That is best anyway.
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Very few hippy communes survived from the 1970s because they were based on the wrong ideals. They were made by lazy "hippies". Modern communes work precisely, because we're not lazy. People work very hard and i'm not going to dismiss them for it. There are many communes that i consider "socially conservative". I disapprove of them. However, they are definitely better than the "outside world" (if you like). Communes nowadays are based on practical grounds along with a hope for social improvement. They are close-knit, they work together as a community. Some of the ones i've seen, though, you'd be hard-pressed to find any hippies in there. In some, smoking and drinking are prohibited. There are a thousand and one different ways of economic systems that all work. Also, a lot of them are religion-oriented. I tend to steer clear of them. The point is, most commune-members are far from hippies.

Your story was very moving but, if you don't mind me asking, what has Benji's suicide to do with the fact he was (apparently) a hippy?
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He never grew up. His daughter was my daughter's school friend. He would not work. He wanted to keep his house (owned by his mother) filled with teens to party with. The teens knew they could smoke dope, get drunk, and have sex at his house. All his peers were shunning him by that time. His mother bought his cigarettes. He bummed beer and dope off the teens. He had already been jailed once because of my daughter. He saw his life as going nowhere. I think he saw the damage he was doing to those young people too. Minutes before he blew his brains out he turned over the kitchen table. And put a sign on the refrigerator telling everyone to leave and not come back. Then went in the bedroom and shot himself. He fell against the door. My daughter and another kid kicked the bottom panel out of the door to get to him. She crawled over him and put his head in her lap. He tried to speak but nothing came out.

By the way, some of those teens came back and stayed 3 days in that bloody house. The state police had it sealed as a crime scene until it was investigated. But in their dim little minds it was okay to go through a window and walk over that blood soaked carpet. Cook food and drink the beer. When the police released the house his mom had the house destroyed and burned. She sent his truck to salvage. She told me that way she would never see any of it again. And the kids would not keep coming back.

There is a lot more, but that is the short of it.

[Dirk]

[quote=DodgeFB]
He never grew up. His daughter was my daughter's school friend. He would not work. He wanted to keep his house (owned by his mother) filled with teens to party with. The teens knew they could smoke dope, get drunk, and have sex at his house. All his peers were shunning him by that time. His mother bought his cigarettes. He bummed beer and dope off the teens. He had already been jailed once because of my daughter. He saw his life as going nowhere. I think he saw the damage he was doing to those young people too. Minutes before he blew his brains out he turned over the kitchen table. And put a sign on the refrigerator telling everyone to leave and not come back. Then went in the bedroom and shot himself. He fell against the door. My daughter and another kid kicked the bottom panel out of the door to get to him. She crawled over him and put his head in her lap. He tried to speak but nothing came out.

By the way, some of those teens came back and stayed 3 days in that bloody house. The state police had it sealed as a crime scene until it was investigated. But in their dim little minds it was okay to go through a window and walk over that blood soaked carpet. Cook food and drink the beer. When the police released the house his mom had the house destroyed and burned. She sent his truck to salvage. She told me that way she would never see any of it again. And the kids would not keep coming back.

There is a lot more, but that is the short of it.
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That is very moving. Why did he kill himself, if you don't mind my asking?