You guys who are in your late forties really missed the so called "hippie movement". Your image of "hippies" seems to have been formed by the shop-worn media stereotype and by the movement's detritus. Events such as Altamont, the Manson murders and the growing extremism of political movements such as the Black Panthers and the Weather Underground really spelled the end of the peace and love, flowers in your hair, peace brother, stuff. By 1970 people in the "movement" had either gone the back-to-the-land route, got involved in radical politics or social change movements or got jobs and "rejoined" society. Most who were living the "hippie" lifestyle by this time were Johnny-come-latelys who thought that the "movement" was what was portrayed in the media so they assumed the sex, drugs and rock-and-roll part of it without any of the "spiritual" aspects such as community, self discovery and the celebration of life.