What ever happened to the "Flower Children" of the 60's?

Answer 1

Where have all the flowers gone
Long Time passing????
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long Time ago...
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to soldiers-everyone
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?

I sang that song in the coffee houses way back in college.
Some "flower children" are still around.
Not all have sold out.
Not many have stayed the same.
Not all took drugs
Nor did some of us die.
You see the essence of being a "flower child" or a "hippie" wasn't the clothes or the drugs nor the "communes".
The essence was promoting peace, love and finding your true self.
All the colorful clothes, flowers, long hair, etc. were outside trimmings many gabbed onto and used as a cop-out to use drugs and do
nothing...superfical is superfical no matter what movement it is attached to, it has no depth and will just crash and die.

Free love?
No such thing.

Unconditional love...that's the real thing.

Always,
Karen

Answer 2

Adolescents' thinking has always been a mile wide and an inch deep, and each generation has an urge to reinvent the wheel. Some of the flower children were radical thinkers and remain so to this day, though with some degree of modification through maturity. Many were largely influenced by peer pressure and re-evaluated their thinking, making a complete change in outlook later (I'm reminded of the quote, itself an overstatement, "Anyone who isn't a socialist at twenty has no heart; anyone who is still a socialist at forty has no brain). But I think it's also important to point out that the flower children of the 60's were always a small percentage of the generation. The impression one gets from TV is that we were all hippies and we all burned our draft cards, and that's just not the way it was.

Answer 3

Go to San Francisco; there you will see the last of the true flower children. Or go north, to Mendocino county and you will see some more.

Answer 4

We grew up, got jobs or started businesses, raised children, and now we have grandchildren to look forward to...*sigh* All good things never truly come to an end, they just change into something better

Answer 5

we are the old farts who infuriate you with our big houses, lousy attitudes, and unfortunately, stupid politics.
as people get more successful, they tend to get conservative, because they are afraid the younger generation will take away what the geriatric generation has earned with similarly structured dumb ideas we held sacrosanct.
Leary has been modified for tv to turn on, tune in, throw up.
we no longer trust anybody under 30, and our vw busses have grown to the mammoth motorhomes that require more money to fill up than we spent on the vw busses.
in short, most of us have grown to be the people we warned others to beware of.
this is somewhat tongue in cheek, but i have seen too many of my doobie bros turn into stark raving idiot republicans,.
they say pot causes brain damage. i think so, because i see a lot of really stupid ideas being bandied about, with little basis for reality, and pot is as good a thing to blame as anything else.
peace, love, dove, bro

Answer 6

They became yuppies in the 80s and are now grandparents.

Answer 7

we finally grew up. or at least most of us did......the jury is still out on a few. And sadly a lot of us died of overdoses, std's and other related health issues.

Answer 8

The ones who didn't die from drug overdoses are living in a different kind of "commune"...either jail, mental hospitals, or nursing homes.

Answer 9

We grew up and turned into lawyers.

Answer 10

I believe a lot of them become retirement age next year and will live off the government they protested about.