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While I strongly disagree with his opinions about #carob, I feel Jonathan Kauffman really did some great research in creating "Hippie Food: How Back-to-the-Landers, Longhairs, and Revolutionaries Changed the Way We Eat"
I started the book while in grad school, but couldn't finish it due to academic reading. Now that I can read it, I'm just fascinated by the history.
At the very least, it proves that you can make big changes as an individual. Or at least some of us can.
Yes. And every so often on the socials there's an outburst of conflating "saving the climate requires more than individual action, it requires collective action" with "collective action is pointless, shut up hippie."
The people leading the most effective collective actions are also going out of their way to take individual actions, because the two are never independent.
While the history goes back much farther than the 1970s, I get nostalgic for the parts from the '70s because it reminds me of a time where folks really did believe in people power and were less willing to only be acted upon. People organized and started things, including co-op businesses of all sorts.
Not that that has entirely disappeared, but the sense of possibility seemed so much more widespread then.
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