Season of the Witch is honestly such a great book. Nice to see it mentioned here.
Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco
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#42Very cool. If you're interested in things like this you might wanna checkout CGP Grey's videos on tracking down various stories from books through archives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ
> If you're interested in things like this you might wanna checkout CGP Grey's videos on tracking down various stories from books through archives.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ
The video is sort of funny and reminds me of the paranoiac absurd archival research of the Trystero in Thomas Pynchon's _The Crying of Lot 49_.
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#43I imagine a lot of queer kids were running away from abuse
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#45> Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were the…
That passage has always felt a little heartbreaking for me. The early internet era felt like much the same kind of experience, though it's been much more than five years now, and it's hard to see many traces left of that wave.
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#46I know my mom ran away to SF as a teen in the 60s, but she will not say why or share the story. I’ve always been curious about it because she’s a very straight laced person, and I just cannot imagine her doing anything like that.
I feel like there is a secret there that she is afraid or ashamed of, but if she would tell me I could understand her better.
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#47I have a great uncle that moved to Haight Ashbury to chase the whole spiritual open your mind idea. He said it was nothing like the media or nostalgia portrayed it. Lots of homeless drugged out kids who were completely lost. No jobs, panhandling for food and money, no direction, just spaced out druggies. Said it was fairly sad and he left within a year. He is an old hippy type as well, it was not what I was expecting…
Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, etc. were there, he just didn’t meet them.
The community of people that were actually serious about that stuff was as far as I can tell pretty small and exclusive.
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lol my local pub has more history than San Francisco
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It’s the heart of Silicon Valley and the hippie movement. Essentially the entire US economy originates from the area, trillions of dollars. What slackjaw, red state, welfare queen town are you talking about?