What happened to the hippie culture?
It moved on to a younger generation. I’ve seen some younger people that others might classify as “hippies”, but the original culture is gone, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “Hippies” had an unrealistic world-view, although they were heading in a loving direction. Hippies may have thought that LSD was a cure-all for society – now we know better… we grew up and widened our world-view. I had long hair when I was younger, but I never considered myself a “hippy”, and I never really was one.
The few hippies in the Sixties who really had integrity and genuinely believed in the ideals of the hippie movement (in other words, the ones who didn’t just join a commune because it was the trendy thing to do) have continued trying, in a variety of ways, to make the world a peaceful, better place over the last several decades. They don’t look like hippies anymore, but their values have stayed the same. The rest of them- the phonies- got so caught up in the narcissism of the Me Decade that followed the Sixties that their subsequent lives bore absolutely no similarity to the peace and love values of the hippie movement. Instead their new mantra became “Gimme, gimme, gimme!
