Will Mason | The Source Weekly - Bend, Oregon

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    Will Mason on 07/09/2015 at 11:08 AM
    The term "hippie" quickly devolved into a perjorative term for the low-life druggie"posers" that followed the scene/lifestyle that spawned the word.

    By the early 70's I was already peeved at being referred to as a "hippie" as were most of my friends.

    We called ourselves either "heads" or "longhairs" just to shake off the media's and the puritan's insulting use of the term "hippie" and to distinguish ourselves from the "all drugs and no brains" crowd.

    Let there be no mistake, we smoked a lot of weed and took plenty of hallucinogens and swam naked ... Be we were also focused on changing the world for the better.

    Now you can visit one of the early hippie strongholds, Eugene, and find a lot of tie dyed stuff, plaid shirts and long hair. What you find damn little of are the sensitivities and sensibilities of the original lifestyle.

    All show and no go.

    Don't even get me started on "millenials" ...
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    Will Mason on 07/02/2015 at 10:16 AM
    Bend is a self-described "drinking town with a skiing problem" and that image is created and bolstered by the biweekly drunkathon downtown all summer long.

    The city collects event fees, the cops chase the patrons home to raise funds via the DUI's they capitalize on and the attorneys and probation officers laugh all the way to the bank.

    Now they want to whine about disorderly behavior in the heart of their "behavioral sink" ... ?

    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. once said that he only wrote one book that he knew the moral of ... ?

    The moral to that story ...?

    Be very careful of who you "pretend" to be ...