What happened to peace and free Love.
It went commercial.
The summer of love lasted 2 months. A lot of 'hippies' were to poor, to get out of Vietnam. Anti war protesters, were all leftist college kids. The crux of this article, tells about a generation, who's young lives were changed by a number of events, not all of them, in their control, but very different than any other time, in American history. The government, music, birth control, radical changes in racial discourse, caused by our government, Vietnam, Drugs becoming an alternative to alcohol, or even an add on, to drinking. The JFK assassination was a trigger, of sorts. The Cold War even played a role. The 'hippy' became a classification, for people to put a name to all these changes, and lump us all into it. Today is no different. As young people of that era, we had a lot more choices afforded us, like no generation before it or after. Long hair became a fad, that has never ended, but evolved. This generation, was the most mistrusting of establishment government, we had ever seen, up to this time. Unfortunately we split in half, by traditional capitalistic Constitutional believers, who weren't all Republicans, and the socialist myth, promoted by communist professors in college. I can't stand nation building wars, far from our shores, corporate jerrymandering their lazy a$$'s, by giving money to power to avoid competing. I don't care what someone wants to do with their lives, as long as they live within the lines of the most liberal form of government, in the history of civilization, and quit hurting each other. And we have already fixed the era of pollution, went created, and we never stop improving. Our culture in those days, mirror how I believe. The music I listened to, mirror how I believe. Yet the so called counter culture of the 60's and 70's, have joined up with tyranny, which was the no.1 thing we fought the hardest, back then. The establishment has taken our counter culture, and turned it into power grabbing selfish enterprise, with many who fought and sang against it, eating at the same trough of totalitarianism.