Did the hippies/hippie culture of the 1960s really change the world? If so, how?
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MeMySelfAnEye
ANSWERS: 3
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Yes, we will be paying for their "love in" for a long, long time.
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It's funny,because my husband and I were just talking about this the other night.We are both old hippies,and were about 15 yrs old when Woodstock took place. He was saying that we all thought that drugs and free love were cool THEN,but to see what the effect has been on our culture ever since,we both think now that it was wrong. Not to say that ALL aspects affected the world in a bad way,but the drugs did,I think. I would have to say that most of the young kids I have met today at the very least smoke pot every day.A lot smoke crack,or pop oxy's and percs like its going out of style.I keep telling them it's like "Hillbilly Heroine" and really,really addictive shit to get into,but they,of course,don't listen.Sounds too familiar.My husband and I wouldn't listen either.
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No, the marketer's of the fifties, sixties and seventies made kids think they were changing the world. Putting the hippy vs. flat top fight on the news was a great way to keep everyone glued to the set and watching the advertising every night. Getting the kids to buy music about changing the world made guys like Phil Spectre filthy rich so they could shoot actresses years later in their glamorous mansions. Really the only thing it changed was to make once close knit families hate each other for 15 - 20 years so they could miss out on each others company and if they were lucky, make up just before the parents died. Then the media provided us with books like "The Greatest Generation" so we could all plunk down our money and feel better about treating our parents and grandparents like sh** for years.
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