Whitman and Thoreau and the Hippies (via AI)

   C’mon man, “I sing the body electric”? Like far fucking out. I mean everything was electric, right?

    And those leaves of grass? Whitman was smoking the good stuff for sure. Then there was that guy Thoreau out in the woods protesting the war.

     Which is all by way of saying when Mitch posed his question about the origins of hippie thought, Thoreau and Whitman came to mind.     When he suggested I write a few paragraphs on the subject I jumped at the chance to … outsource it to ChatGPT. (Hey I’m not doing this for credit, just getting the info out there.) ….

Click for the introduction to this series: “The Roots of the Hippie Idea.”