Fiery but mostly peaceful terrorists
Hippies
Hippies began as peace loving drop outs until radicalized over the Vietnam War. I got no problem with real hippies.
I consider myself a hippie in a lot of ways. But there's an argument to be made that the hippie movement was just meant to destroy the connection the American populous has with their foundation, in order to uproot and supplant their loyalties elsewhere. Look how many of them worship the literal nothingness of Eastern religions like Buddhism. Communists love these ideologies specifically because they are easy to subvert. In order to build something, you first have to tear down what's already there.
Ding. Ding. Ding.
You have acid raising trait openness, breaking down sexual norms, destroying peoples ability to use money or do math (while on it), making them feel like the whole world is an extension of themselves. The whole time this is being pushed by 'radical' academics and embraced by anarco-commies. Globalism, feminism, communism, eastern pacifism... It all boomed in the 60's, it was a totally degenerate time.
I love a lot of the music, I've even done acid a couple times but it's hard to see the 60's as anything but a decade of destruction and subversion. On top of that hippie music, drugs and aesthetics were easily co-opted and divorced from the anti-war movement (see The Eagles) and made to serve consumerism. There are a lot of parallels to the homos, who have had their degenerate rebellion and spent a good long while destroying society incrementally w/ their hedonism. Also, similarly they have now been co-opted by corporations and do nothing about it (if they have even noticed at all).
It's tough because I have no love for Kissenger and his cold war kikery and warmongering but at the same time 'free love' was anything but sustainable and was a recipe for flaming out as a civilization.
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