2007-07-03 07:53:48 · 25 answers · asked by Ringo G. 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Why do you care? Just so you know the culture lives.
2007-07-03 07:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by gone 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I like Kim Stanley Robinson's description of it..."...you old hippie, you got lucky and were born in the right little window and got to grab all the surplus of happiness that history ever produced, and you blew it, you stood around and did nothing while the right reaganed back into power and shut down all possibility of change for an entire generation, you blew it in a ten-year party and staggered off stoned and complicit. You neither learned to do machine politics nor dismantled the machine. Not one of you imagined what had to be done. And so the backlash came down, the reactionary power structure, stronger than ever."
2007-07-03 15:03:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The hippies turned into Yuppies.
However, their are a few hippies still around today in the deep south.
2007-07-03 14:56:57 · answer #3 · answered by hardcoredlw 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I concur with Dave R. Charles Manson gave hippies a bad name, then everyone got totally wrapped up in Vietnam on a full-time basis...eventually the entire country burned out.
It looks like we're heading there again, with all this rancorous divisiveness.
2007-07-03 15:05:28 · answer #4 · answered by Mathsorcerer 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A) The Viet Nam war ended.
B) Eighteen year olds got the right to vote.
C) Nixon resigned.
D) The hippies all grew up.
E) All of the above.
2007-07-03 15:01:47 · answer #5 · answered by Chredon 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The 80's
2007-07-03 14:56:26 · answer #6 · answered by Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It still exists... today there are still hippies, the same kind of hippies that existed in the 60's... but most of the hippies transformed their "counter culture" into the more mainstream Marxist-Enviromentalist movement...
2007-07-03 14:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Schaufel 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
A tidal wave of corrupting influences swept all the hippies out to sea, leaving only poor Ed Begley and his bike.
2007-07-03 14:57:31 · answer #8 · answered by Steve C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact that the hippies grew up and had to support themselves.
2007-07-03 14:56:14 · answer #9 · answered by the_defiant_kulak 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
a lot of them started seeing the dark side of drugs, the commune populations dwindled. They had to get back to work because drop-out, turn-on, & tune-in (or whatever the slogan was) eventually burned out on it's own. Long live Woodstock!!
2007-07-03 14:58:27 · answer #10 · answered by Sounds of Ed's football game 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The hippie counter culture is still alive and well, only now they call it democratic liberalism. Neither of them recognize the world the way it really is, and both live as though the world was actually the way they want it to be.
2007-07-03 14:58:21 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋