![]() It also keeps “the life in those which already existed” (53) as it keeps the intellect of mankind alive. ![]() ![]() For Mill, in order for society to progress, these social movements must happen as people need to form and change. However, Mill explains “There is always need of persons…to discover new truths…to commence new practices…This cannot well be gainsaid by anybody who does not believe that the world has already attained perfection…” (53). From this, without even stating her exact opinion, Didion deduces the consequences of the hippie movement on being detrimental to the youth and what they could be without the hippie influence.Įvidently, the move from the conservative to liberal stature seemed as downgrade to society to Didion. She then asks the teenagers what they saw their future as when they were kids This abruptly changes the whole conversation to the reader, as the girl replies she wanted to be a veterinarian. She asks what they were planning to do next in which the boy replies “I always kinda dug metal shop, welding… Anyway you can’t pre-plan” (92). ![]() ![]() In her conversation with two runaway teenagers, she creates a sense of disappointment and sadness towards the teenagers through verbal montage. She makes some friends along the way, as she tells her story of meeting people who lived off being high, dropping out and leaving every bit of conservatism out the door. Didion begins the essay by painting a distraught picture of America and eventually moving on to discuss the “social hemorrhaging” in San Francisco, referring to the hippie movement. ![]()
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