2006-12-04 07:32:43 · 10 answers · asked by ChaliQ 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
if they deny their past, they probably weren't true hippies.
2006-12-04 08:28:48 · answer #1 · answered by truth seeker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm from that generation. Anyone in that era who listened to rock n roll, experimented with drugs, and wore the fashions of the time were called hippies by the older generation. It was just a label, not a lifestyle as so many people think. Everyone today thinks hippie was some kind of political party or movement. A hippie was just a person who was hip to rock n roll. The word was used as a marketing tool to sell records. Teenagers and young adults have a great need to be part of a group. The hippie movement, as everyone calls it, was something somebody on Madison Ave dreamed up.
2006-12-04 16:29:21 · answer #2 · answered by Overt Operative 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am 59 and I don't deny anything! I came to San Francisco in the late 60s; got a job with the Grateful Dead; smoked dope and dropped acid; went on the road and generally had a fine time. I met my husband who worked for the band also; we got married and raised 3 happy, healthy children and 3 happy, healthy grandchildren. We have never stopped smoking marijuana and if you met us you would never know it. We're taxpayers and responsible who donate time and money to the less fortunate among us and still believe in the ideals of that generation. And if you are younger than 50, and try to make statements about things that you nothing about, that's pretty much how your generation is, isn't it? You know everything about everything at the age of 16, or 20 or 25 and no one can tell you anything that you don't already know or you won't believe it. So my question to those people is what do you have to look forward to? If you already know everything, then you will never learn anything or become any wiser than you are now. Free your mind!
2006-12-04 16:19:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Go into the educational system, and you will find most of them teaching our disenchanted youth, and very proud of their history protesting the Vietnam war, and just living the life of a party for about a decade.
2006-12-04 15:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because they became mired in greed and commerce...all the things they spoke out against in the 60's.
2006-12-04 15:36:42 · answer #5 · answered by Jadis 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The found Jesus. Or their stash ran out.
2006-12-04 16:06:49 · answer #6 · answered by oksana_rossi 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Still here, were called Lib's.
2006-12-04 15:39:33 · answer #7 · answered by edubya 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
's what happens when people grow up.
And, I actually agree with Ri.
2006-12-04 16:12:52 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
they cant remember what they were then. you know the whole drug thing....
2006-12-04 15:44:56 · answer #9 · answered by CaptainObvious 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because they grew up.
2006-12-04 15:34:59 · answer #10 · answered by C = JD 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋