Why was the hippie generation such a success/influence to overall america?

Question

Why was the hippie generation such a success/influence to overall america?

Answer 1

I don't know where in the world you got that idea from. If you call not bathing, not working, bumming cigarettes, and standing outside stores asking complete strangers, "You got any spare change man?" successful then maybe you should go back and check the dictionary again. :) (only is San Francisco would that be considered success). As far as influence goes, the anti-military, socialististic beliefs that the hippies of Haight-Ashbury and elsewhere espoused are still alive and well personified into today's liberal left wing of the Democrat Party.

Answer 2

Numbers, that's it

You squeeze enough extra kids into a short window of time and presto influence. The rest is all just marketing and pandering to the biggest group you can find. For the last forty years, their every whim has been declared the will of the nation, or a profound change, mostly by themselves. Civil Rights? the people were born before the boom. Feminism? Kind of hard to claim the generation that was benefiting from it, is somehow responsible for it. The economic boom? Come on they got the goodies, the war generation did the work.

Answer 3

The best thing that occurred during that time was the liberation of women. Although I do not totally agree with everything the Women's Movement stood for, there definitely was a realization of the value of the women both in the home and in the work place.

The worst thing that happened was the Viet Nam War. There was never a good plan. So many guys died for absolutely nothing. If the country felt the need to go to war, they should have planned a strategy that would have made the effort successful. They went in half-****** just as they have done in Iraq.

Answer 4

because drugs do funky stuff.

There's really not a good reason why it was a success. Some claim that popular movement was sick of the conformities people were supposed to have. Others claimed the horrors of Vietnam and it's portrayal in the media led many to the peace movement. Some blame the beatles. There's really no good solid answer.

Popular Culture history is really hard to answer and yet so easy.

Answer 5

i'm undecided.. It replace into so anti-enterprise and funky. I wish we'd have a cutting-edge hippie flow. each thing has replace into so uptight back and boring.. i needed I lived interior the 60s, it could have been so candy!

Answer 6

because youth everywhere rebelled, and they weren't uneducated punks. You know who you are ! Lots of those "hippies" are now running the country ! It was that generation that spoke up and said " make love, not war !". They spoke up against the "establishment" !

Answer 7

The great success/influence that the hippy generation had overall was to serve as an example of what happens when you watch what lazy, self-indulgent, ignorant, drug altered people amount to. Which was basically a wasted, useless life. As my daddy said, 'everyone serves a purpose in this life, even if it is only as an example of how not to live a life'. It was a great con job by certain of the men to convince the girls to prostitute themselves under the guise of 'free choice'. Drugging them made it easy to ruin the girls.
It was a sad thing to watch so many young people ruin their lives. That was when STD's hit. Before the sixties it was rare to see ectopic pregnancies. After the 'hippies' influence, the female tubal infection rates soared and right along with it ectopic pregnancies.

Answer 8

Well.. if you put in the effort you put in to ask this question into google.. you would have found your awnser by now and wouldn't be at the mecy of otheres.. my opinion" ... what's up with that? every answer the same? is it just for the points?

Answer 9

It doesn't matter. They sold out.

Answer 10

It was?