Wandervögel
What is our adventure? Why? For Whom?
We’ve noticed that most people do not understand the approach we’re taking!
The same questions are asked: on foot!?!, for a year !?!, on your own!?!… it is also said that we are part of some obscure organization, a students group or that we are pilgrims! The later would be closest to our project, as the aim of a pilgrimage is a focus on one-self, an inner quest.
Our adventure is personal, we dreamt it, we imagined it, and we carried it through.
We are living with the Sun, we are laying down to sleep at sunset, waking up at dawn, following the natural rhythm of the seasons, feeling the cold on our legs, the rain dripping on our face and the sun making us frown. We are tying back with nature as we have not closed our eyes on this part of existence!
This society makes us sick because everything is going so fast, advertisements make us dream of terribly fake “idyllic” worlds!
We are pushed to believe in a natural and a supernatural, while advocating the Greek Hollos!
To tie back with these core values, we have chosen a close approach to the Wandervögel’s . This is not a model for us but we acknowledge the similarities with the German youth movement against the bourgeois spirit circa 1914, it’s a good way to embody our values!
The Wandervögel ethos is characterized by a “Völkisch spirit (complex notion meaning simultaneously” regionalist “,” traditional “,” popular “and” rural “), camaraderie, freedom and” revolt against the bourgeois spirit. ” The young Germans back then also found a certain ecological conception of the world , the desire for a simple life, healthy and close to nature, rejecting the world of cities and their artificial values that alienate youth and have made men forget the essence of things and nature. .
Taken From: http://tourdeurope.over-blog.com/
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