V-2 -Chapter 9 - Anti-Oedipus

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> "Wandervogel Idiocy," that's a rich way of putting it.

Dodo Birds (the Dutch and German Etymology is sometimes "Sloth bird"
or "knot arse bird")
Wandervogel is the name adopted by a popular movement of German youth
groups from 1896 onward. The name can be translated as migratory bird
and the ethos is to shake off the restrictions of society and get back
to nature and freedom.

The Wandervogel movement was officially established on 4 November 1901
by Herman Hoffmann Fölkersamb, who in 1895 had formed a study circle
at the boys' Berlin-Steglitz grammar school where he was teaching. The
Wandervogel soon became the pre-eminent German youth movement. It was
a back-to-nature youth organization emphasizing freedom,
self-responsibility, and the spirit of adventure, and took a
nationalistic approach, stressing Germany's Teutonic roots.[1][2]

After World War I, the leaders returned disillusioned from the war.
The same was true for leaders of German Scouting. So both movements
started to influence each other heavily in Germany. From the
Wandervogel came a stronger culture of hiking, adventure, bigger tours
to farther places, romanticism and a younger leadership structure.
Scouting brought uniforms, flags, more organization, more camps and a
clearer ideology. There was also an educationalist influence from
Gustav Wyneken.

Together this led to the emergence of the Bündische Jugend. The
Wandervogel, German Scouting and the Bündische Jugend together are
referred to as the German Youth Movement.

They had been around for more than a quarter of a century before
National Socialists began to see an opportunity to hijack some methods
and symbols of the German Youth Movement to use it in the Hitler Youth
to influence the young.

The first signs of what we would call modern "proto-hippies" emerged
in fin de siècle Europe. Between 1896 and 1908, a German youth
movement arose as a countercultural reaction to the organized social
and cultural clubs that centered around German folk music. Known as
Der Wandervogel ("migratory bird"), the movement opposed the formality
of traditional German clubs, instead emphasizing amateur music and
singing, creative dress, and communal outings involving hiking and
camping.[5] Inspired by the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, Goethe,
Hermann Hesse, and Eduard Baltzer, Wandervogel attracted thousands of
young Germans who rejected the rapid trend toward urbanization and
yearned for the pagan, back-to-nature spiritual life of their
ancestors.[6] During the first several decades of the twentieth
century, Germans settled around the United States, bringing the values
of the Wandervogel with them. Some opened the first health food
stores, and many moved to Southern California where they could
practice an alternative lifestyle in a warm climate. Over time, young
Americans adopted the beliefs and practices of the new immigrants. One
group, called the "Nature Boys", took to the California desert and
raised organic food, espousing a back-to-nature lifestyle like the
Wandervogel.[7] Songwriter Eden Ahbez wrote a hit song called Nature
Boy inspired by Robert Bootzin (Gypsy Boots), who helped popularize
health-consciousness, yoga, and organic food in the United States.

Like Wandervogel, the hippie movement in the United States began as a
youth movement. Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults
between the ages of 15 and 25 years old,[8][9] hippies inherited a
tradition of cultural dissent from bohemians and beatniks of the Beat
Generation in the late 1950s.[9] Beats like Allen Ginsberg
crossed-over from the beat movement and became fixtures of the
burgeoning hippie and anti-war movements. By 1965, hippies had become
an established

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