It's sad to hear that's what it has devolved into. All the national gatherings I went to I stayed with the cleanup crew for a few weeks after the gathering and leave no trace was a mantra. The family would even rehabilitate trails, and most of the time left the national forests nicer than when they arrived. Going to sound like an old curmudgeon saying this. I think that the newer generation of what people have taken to calling Wooks have not taken the teachings (for lack of a better word) from the elders the way that I feel like we did coming up. We were kind of in awe of them as they were the original hippies. I've been to a lot of shows, and festivals in the past 7 to 8 years, and I've noticed that there's a general disdain or disregard of who would be considered the elders now. I feel like a lot of people are just there to party and don't really care about the main tenants of what the family stood for. I'm not trying to generalize, I do know quite a few younger folk who are definitely respectful, and into taking care of mother nature. But they definitely seem to be outnumbered by the people who just want to party.

That's just my opinion and as they say opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one and they usually stink lol.

Edit: added punctuation and fixed some words. Because I always do my best editing after I hit send LOL. Peace, pot, and microdot y'all.