People really are mental sometimes. I just read this story from the Times about a luxury hippie commune for the rich.

“Who wants to stay in some stinky, hot ashram where the food is inedible and you are sick all the time? added India, a stunning former Russian model who had joined us for dinner”.

Well, quite. But it’s slightly Animal Farm how it starts out all egalitarian and idealistic, then some people start making a buck or two out of it and an evil capitalist hierarchy develops, whereby some people get the nice houses, loads of cash and free choice of the foxy former Russian model birds etc and some idiots have to graft away doing all the cooking just for the privilege of being allowed in.

If most people are basically bastards, most hippies are basically just pious, disingenuous bastards.