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I think many hippies were poseurs following a fad. The same type kids who are all tatted up and pierced these days. However, it was the boomers coming of age, and a massive slug of newly educated, idealistic young people were thinking about new ways to live in the future. Given that most of these same people became hypermaterialistic yuppies in the 1980s, I take their youthful lifestyles with a grain of salt. Still, the creativity and vision for the future were generally positive, except for all the drugs and sleeping around. I think both have consequences.
Perfectly said! As someone who grew up 90 miles from San Francisco in the 1960s, I somehow managed to detour around the peace movement and concentrate on school. I was never into drugs, free love, etc., so not everyone was touched by hippydom. Many, many of those "hippies" (especially the educated ones) turned into capitalists, and in looking back at our parents (members of the Greatest Generation), we realize they weren't so bad after all. We sure were idealistic in our world viewpoint back then. Sweet memories. There will never be another generation like it, and except for being old now, I am a proud member.
And yes, the best music ever came out of the 1960s and early 1970s. Hands down.
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IMO, I don't think many Hippies took those types of courses.
Never said they did, I was responding to "The Hippies of old became teachers and now school administrators and college professors and we SEE what damage they have done"
I think hippieism is inseparable from moral relativism, which means you cannot say enough is enough when confronted with evil. So no, the hippies were wrong.
Hippies were Libertarian.
They in no way wanted an authoritative government such as we have now or under the previous administration.
Some hippies supported socialist politics but they certainly acted like libertarians. (I am one.)
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