whether you youngsters realize it or not the hippies had a lot to do with changing this world for the better

they were involved in or the inspiration for one civil rights movement, anti-war movement, or progressive movement after another -- and i did not say liberal -- i said progressive -- like out of the dark ages like getting folks equal pay for equal work, or helping blacks get the vote, or the unions, or stopping the damn draft (and that's why you ass got saved), etc.

yes, many of those movements were compromised and defused by infiltrators and hippies were branded by the media as nothing but being lazy, into free love, and drugs

hippies invented the damn computers you are using
i have met two of the Apple guys, one used to be my neighbor
they were hippies
hippies gave you yuppies and the baby boomers which gave you much of the damn digital tech, green tech, health food, animal rights, whole fields of academic knowledge, motorcycles, music, and lots of other stuff you love

you don't know your history

quit bashing hippies until you go really study the literature and history of the period

they were change agents
many of us are still around we just cut our hair, you boobs

someone should take a poll
how many people on here used to be hippies
hang around with hippies
or whose parents or grandparents were hippies
i am tired of these kids and conservative labeling everything that had to with my generation as being "liberal" and like the "democrats"
hippies were not democrats
or republicans
they took issue with the whole damn system