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The greatest wave of communal residing in American history crested in the tumultuous 1960s period including the early 1970s. For the fascination and amusement of more decorous residents, thousands of typically young dreamers set out to build a new culture in addition to the established society. Broadly believed by the bigger public to be sinks of drug-ridden erotic immorality, the communes both intrigued and repelled the American people. The intentional areas of the 1960s period were far more diverse than the stereotype of the hippie commune would suggest. A great number of of these were religious in basis, stressing spiritual seeking and disciplined standards of living. Others were founded on secular visions of a better society. A huge selection of them became so stable that they endure today. This e book surveys the extensive sweep of the great public yearning from the first portents of a new type of communitarianism in the first 1960s through the waning of the movement in the mid-1970s.
