Trippy wallpapers, animations, streaming videos and loads more psychedelic and groovy stuff. Interesting; recalls us of the whereabouts fo those actual hippies still inhabiting around El Bolsón City, in Patagonia.

Many times we have wondered why the hippie movement, so popular between 1965 and 1973 decayed so abruptly and deeply that many believed it extinct as a fashion fad. However, hippies still exist and you can visit whole communities of them in places like El Bolson, in Argentina, Big Sur in the United States, and certain neighbourhoods of Copenhagen, in Denmark; in all these places people still live according to the basics of hippie ideals, and there are lone individuals around the world that do the same on their own.

But it is also true that with this movement happened something similar to what the Green Party (Die Grüne) experienced in Germany, like in the case of many ecologists, environmentalist, pro-life and human rights groups that at some point or another become fashionable: they do experience growth - in some cases, in a tremendous way - but then comes decadence. This is so because most of those who adhere such movements are just guided by vogue and short-term ideas. They just want to embrace the skin, the superficial aspects of doctrines, which are more complex and require a high degree of commitment in some cases.

This happens not because people change; it is true that life implies change, but there are - or should be - also some principles. What we here know as the 'grey man' is the archetype of the settled individual with no further aspirations beyond the turf of his own mortgaged house. This does not mean that the average person is bad, not at all but indeed, it means that most people is easily convinced by anything that sounds o looks new. Just face the facts: in the U.S. there are many baby boomers that were hippies and only recently supported their president to go to a terrible war in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction that never existed. Remember: many of them were hippies at some point.

Yet, the hippie movement should not be judged by the people that left it, but by the numbers that remain; that's a legacy far greater than just psychedelic stuff.

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