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What do you think about the whole thing now? I think it caused most of the problems we have now.

I really should write a book. It was all great fun for me, a convent educated white-glove-wearing young woman. I was in the thick of it, but not part of of it...it was like living on a movie set 24/7, and I did appreciate the freedom after a lifetime of repressioon. But yes, I agree that unreconstructed hippies continue to louse up this country. And I've seen the dreadful waste of humanity that drugs cause. Some of those pretty young men playing guitars on streetcorners in the '60s are still playing those guitars, totally wasted, ugly, unhealthy, and without a purpose to their lives. Sad. Stupid. But they were probably stupid to begin with.

I don't know what bothers me more, the wasted lives or the incorporation of these counterfiet values in to the mainstream of American life.

The latter is certainly what has harmed us most. Now youngsters don't even need to take drigs to get the mindset because they are taught it as the norm.

And I've seen the dreadful waste of humanity that drugs cause. Some of those pretty young men playing guitars on streetcorners in the '60s are still playing those guitars, totally wasted, ugly, unhealthy, and without a purpose to their lives. Sad. Stupid.

I saw one of those unreconstructed hippies at Florida International University a few months ago. Sandals, beret, the whole bit. He was in the student center with a pile of leaflets protesting the war on terrorism. He was both a sad and HILARIOUS sight to behold. Oh, and only ONE person picked up a leaflet from him the whole two hours he was at his table---ME! I was curious as to what it said.... And he was wearing a Green Party T-Shirt. It seems a lot of Greens are former hippies.

tallhappy:
"What do you think about the whole thing now? I think it caused most of the problems we have now."
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I really should write a book. It was all great fun for me, a convent educated white-glove-wearing young woman. I was in the thick of it, but not part of of it...it was like living on a movie set 24/7, and I did appreciate the freedom after a lifetime of repressioon. But yes, I agree that unreconstructed hippies continue to louse up this country. - Poised Woman -
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I was there, up on Kings mountain in '65, as an already free, unrepressed 29 year old white male, with friends in both cultures. -- Still have most of them, and the 'problems' most of you claim to see are vastly overhyped.
-- The 'hippies' are all around you, - many, imo, right here on FR, pretending to now be conservatives.

They aren't. They are Rinos.