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They were lured there by two years of media hype about what they would find there: radical politics at Berkeley, endless supplies of inexpensive hallucinogens, the stirring rhythms of the San Francisco Sound, the collective ecstasy produced in the dance halls and the open sexuality displayed by the hippies of Haight-Ashbury. These attractions, along with San Francisco's reputation for tolerating "deviant" lifestyles—though this tradition had withered considerably by , as city [p.
A Digger leaflet proclaimed: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life". Police estimated that a total of 75, young people squeezed into a densely packed Haight-Ashbury that summer. The Diggers and other neighborhood activists intensified their efforts to feed and house these American refugees. The new name was a reaction against the "expropriation" and exploitation of the word "Digger" by other radicals and the media.
Even Hollywood had heard of the Diggers. Advertising copy for The Love-Ins, a film about the Haight-Ashbury, warned America that "the hippies and the diggers are here! They called it "The Death of Hippie. It was not a premature farewell. The "Summer of Love" was the beginning of the end of the Haight-Ashbury, both as a bohemian neighborhood and a viable community.
The influx of long-haired, runaway teens wasn't the only problem. Two years of Dionysian abandon had undermined, though not quite destroyed, hippie dreams of creating an empyrean urban haven where one might taste both personal freedom and shared ecstasy. As an army of young people and tourists invaded the district in , many of the original Haight-Ashbury hippies fled. Like Grogan, they headed for rural areas, though not to hunt.
Hundreds of Haight hippies founded new, mostly short-lived communes in the countryside. Many of Haight-Ashbury's new residents had neither the intellectual curiosity nor the spiritual ideals of the original hippies. A journalist who visited the neighborhood in reported that many of the young people who came there in and had gone to college and came from upper-middle-class backgrounds.
They were the "children of chairman of the boards of the largest corporations, the most successful lawyers, the richest stockbrokers. Those who came in the spring and summer of hailed from more diverse backgrounds. They ranged from children of professionals to runaways from abusive or repressive families. The new Haight residents were a motley brew of high school dropouts, religious fanatics, naive "flower children," callous drug dealers, thugs and pimps. Rape and other forms of assault and exploitation greeted young women who ventured into the neighborhood.
Some of them were as young as They were accurate on both counts. Venereal disease and vaginitis were epidemic. The murder rate and incidents of physical assault soared. Robbery and burglaries became commonplace. In perhaps the most pointless robbery in the history of the United States, the Diggers' Trip Without a Ticket free store was burglarized! By the end of the summer, heroin, barbiturates and other "body" drugs vied for popularity with consciousness-altering and less-expensive drugs like LSD and marijuana.
The profitability of hard drugs led to an outbreak of violent crime. When police arrested a notorious heroin dealer, they found a suede bag in his car. The bag contained the severed arm of a drug dealer who had been murdered. When asked about the bag and its contents, the "stoned" drug dealer told police, "I'm very, very, hazy about that arm. In retrospect, perhaps the most telling sign of the decline of the Haight-Ashbury and the counterculture was the arrival late in of Charles Manson, recently paroled from prison.
Two years later Manson embarked on the most infamous murder spree of the decade. The son of a Cincinnati prostitute, Manson met some of the young people who became his acolytes and accomplices in murder during his stay in Haight-Ashbury. He also experienced his first LSD trip there. The counterculture's "anything goes" toleration made it easy for anyone, including psychotics, to join up. His drug experiences fortified Manson's ambition to become a rock-and-roll singer-songwriter. The Diggers, or Free City Collective, continued to exist into , although with far less fanfare and notoriety, and substantially diminished creativity.
During their halcyon days in and , Digger pageants, free food, free stores and free services invested the counterculture with moral concreteness. It provided moral substance to a hippie "love" ethic that often amounted to little more than self-absorption, hedonism and solipsistic trances masquerading as "self-exploration.
Years later, Coyote called them "social safe-crackers, sand-papering our nervous systems and searching for the right combinations that would spring the doors and let everyone out of the box. But the Diggers were no more successful than other radical groups of the sixties in harmonizing individual liberty and community. Unlike most other sixties radicals, however, the Diggers, actors who had performed historical plays during their days with the Mime Troupe, possessed a sense of history as an unfolding drama.
They knew that what had evolved in the San Francisco area since the early sixties was a celebration of American freedom deeply at odds with the way most Americans preferred to live their lives. The turmoil that ensued implied that the country might be at a crossroads.
Down one road was the freedom associated with the West, down the other was the desire for security linked to the East: movement and adventure versus settlement and fear of the unpredictable. The Diggers sensed that with nowhere left to go, with no physical "West" of freedom remaining to explore, Americans might finally be compelled to confront what they had wrought.
In they [p. Man has always moved westerly, now is piling up on the Pacific Cliffs, and Japan is flooding back on us. It is all One. At last. Ken Kesey, whose explorations of social frontiers anticipated the Diggers' life-acts, would have understood the historical significance of this broadside. In , on the bus loaded with LSD headed east, he called the Merry Pranksters the "unsettlers of , moving backwards across the Great Plains.
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