I read once. early hippies and proto hippies were German and German immigrants wanting a back to nature life. Then the movement got co opted and drugged.

Lots of good music though

Hippiedom's antecedent seeds were sown with the romanticization of the loose morality and Holy Road bodhisattva burn, burn, burn homosexuality and abandonment of responsibility of The Beats. The whole hippie scene was scripted and disseminated via Laurel Canyon in SoCal & Tavistock in Merry Ol England. Oh so counterculture and edgy tunes promulgated by corporate and advertiser backed primetime slots on Ed Sullivan and Top Of The Pops. Music is, like, gonna change the world, man. Dig it. LSD flooded the scene and was unleashed on a naive and wide eyed mass of soft kids that were historically and culturally unprepared for that ride. Pranksters, gurus and charlatans led the benighted down a swirly path of narcissism and too much fucking hair. "Tune it, turn on, drop out," quipped Leary. He (unintentionally or nefariously) missed the mark. "Tune in, turn on, HELP out," has been the warrior's shamanic path to enlightenment since the first dude plucked a psilocybin bloom from a bovine patty loooong ago. Take your vision quest. Get to know thyself. Glimpse Divinity. Embrace truth. Come back and employ the lessons learned to the betterment of your self, your family, your tribe. The hippies and their Slouching Toward Bethlehem flight Over The Cuckoo's Nest to Yasgur's Farm on The Further Bus captained by an MKULTRA alum and piloted by an unabashed Speed Freak derailed any true opposition to the machinations of The Machine.

They over-reacted to an excessively strict and repressive society, and created an enormity of problems in the long run.

They were fuck-ups who ruined our civilization and made us weak to all forms of destruction we now suffer, the repressive generations above and the overly permissive and coddling generation that wanted to provide an idyllic childhood for their children also fucked up, they made their childhoods too free and the social structure's of adulthood too stuffy.

Generations and their ideals clashed for a lack of foresight, planning ahead and willingness to have dialog and compromise, these thing's were exacerbated by social parasites and predators who egged on the social and generational conflict.

Only two socio-political forms can be stable, benevolent tyranny, and a mildly dissonant, mildly hypocritical society which has liberty and rigged social mores to give structure and form where needed recognizing the weaknesses of total order and total anarchy and so chooses to operate with an affinity to ordered chaos.

People will say Rome was stable for so long but the city was under the later in it's first age and then the former after Cesar, everywhere else they had periodic uprisings and purges or even outright genocides; though border skirmishes often dominated political and social life. distracting from other social problems; after all, the hippie's themselves were a component of the government's eagerness to fight in vietnam.

They got everything right man. Made dope legal, made niggers number one in 'Murica, made bitches equal, gave niggers affirmative action, made colleges into indoctrination centers, made love not war, gave us all these great politicians like Clinton, Bush, Feinstein, Milk. Gave us Meathead, Dick Cavett, and it all culminated into reaparayshuns after it was found out that all you wypipo owned slaves back in the day.

Tune in, turn on, and drop out.

Peace.

Hippies is a jew term coined in the late 60's . Cute name for a bunch of degenerates. Oh yeah the answer is no they didn't. Deadheads fell off the rails and are the ones beating those 5 gallon buckets at antifa rallys.

Their anti foreign war beliefs align to the founding fathers and they were absolutely right.

We're they supposed to?

dont call me hippy bitch

yeah paying taxes to drop bombs on the bug people is stupid

No because most gave up being hippies for being a lawyers and architects and school teachers