hippies

[Guest guest]

the hippies of the 1960s did understand something. They were right in

fighting the plastic culture, and the church should have been

fighting it too... More than this, they were right in the fact that

the plastic culture - modern man, the mechanistic worldview in

university textbooks and in practice, the total threat of the

machine, the establishment technology, the bourgeois upper middle

class - is poor in its sensitivity to nature... As a utopian group,

the counterculture understands something very real, both as to the

culture as a culture, but also as to the poverty of modern man's

concept of nature and the way the machine is eating up nature on

every side.

-Francis Schaeffer,