To me the sixties movement was the civil rights movement which inspired the sexual equality or femenist movement. The assasination of all the greatest leftist leaders was the unsaid motivation to stand up and make an individaul difference. The anti war movement got the remaining people who were not marching up on their feet.

The icing on this Nexus of events cake, was the drug "movement".
Any real hippie knows the phrase "tune in , turn on and drop out".
Some did one, others did two but I did all three. I no longer turn on but support the freedom of others who do. Still I wouldn't want a dime going to some murderous cartel.

If anyone wants to have a pissing contest, I suppose we could decide who is the best hippie. I could tell you that those who are hippies, have harmed LESS/FEWER lands, waters, people and animals than those who are not hippies.

The biggest lie about hippies is that they are slakers. I have known high power attoneys who are hippies. The financiers who destroyed the world for the next several generations are those who are definately not hippies.

Yeah the sixties and early seventies had hundreds of people's front organizations. Some of them were bizarre, some religiously bizarre but I suppose human nature has always been a messey affair.

Today it is said we should fear that we are so much alike than different. My artificial yet true seperation of human race into two groups is the linear and non linear. (the literalists vs the metaphorists) seldom will the twain ever meet.