Actually, all of that didn’t start with the Hippies. It started with Marx and trickled down over a century. Hippies were the end result of cultural and societal rot and dissolution envisioned by 19th and early 20th century radicals.
I tend to agree. I’m familiar with the efforts of The Frankfurt School, and “Intellectuals” like Sarte, but I responded the way I did because I come from the age group (1951) that was attracted to the “hippy culture.” I know firsthand, the ravages of the drugs and the nihilism they fostered, and I’m sick to bucktoothed death of hearing 1960’s retreads applauding themselves.
Marx was something of a prude and hectoring moralist.
Yup. They just thought they were original. In reality, they were just useful idiots.