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Show So far, Woodstock Nation is just a trend. If too many people are satisfied with becoming cogs in ever more complex social machines, it will become an anachronism, a throwback to times when men had to rely upon themselves in order to survive. The best symbol of youth counterculture is the hitch-hiker. Beside a soot and cinder road, he sticks out a thumb and asks a ride to unknown destination. Unwilling or, perhaps, unable to purchase and drive an automobile, he still takes advantage of it's presence to get him where he's going. He travels on the good will of his fellow man and does not abuse it. Freed from the cumbersome paraphrenalia of outmoded consumer society, he moves about, knowing that most everywhere he goes there will be a welcome. By most any traditional standard he is a poor man, yet the richness of his experience, humanity, and intellect is often greater than that of other men. Of course, this is all a romantic portrait-but then, maybe that's what makes it appealing. |
