My father, who I consider to have been one of the "real" hippies, told me that he couldn't deal with hippie communes. He claimed that when the group becomes large enough and everyone should be considered equal, a jerk comes in to take advantage of the situation, starts managing, and fucks everything up.
The dynamics of the counterculture communes has been studied, and it is of interest as counterculture was certainly a forefather to modern day Silicon Valley.
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My father, who I consider to have been one of the "real" hippies, told me that he couldn't deal with hippie communes. He claimed that when the group becomes large enough and everyone should be considered equal, a jerk comes in to take advantage of the situation, starts managing, and fucks everything up.
The dynamics of the counterculture communes has been studied, and it is of interest as counterculture was certainly a forefather to modern day Silicon Valley.
See here:
* http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/01/how-silicon-valley-became-the-m...
* http://vimeo.com/73536828 esp. 54:10 and on