The Hippie Movement – 1960s Counterculture

Monterey Pop Festival was my first concert, haven't stopped being a hippy since.

The Hippies rarely got around protesting. Young people get the radicals and Hippies mixed up. Radicals wanted to change the government while Hippies wanted nothing to do with it. They both liked the same music and drugs so that they did have in common.

People these days may look back on the Counter-Culture of the 60's with disdain but we didn't have the proliferation of "Mass Shootings', people being attacked on the street or in their homes, rampant shoplifting, a non-functioning government, and as much HATRED for others as does exist these days. In many ways it was a much nicer period of time to live in.

So is the hippie the American version of the gypsy?

Damned I miss us.

I loved Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker just to name a few.

The Doors and Jefferson Airplane the best 60's bands ever

The Stonehenge free festival used to go on for a month by the time it got to the mid 80's!

Nothing wrong with weed and lsd

Jefferson airplane rolling stones jimi hendrix the beatles.

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gas, grass, and aXX was all they needed.

Woodstock would've been amazing 🤩

The peace and love aspects were great. The civil rights movements and the fact that people were more open to new ideas was a great concept. But just dropping out of school was a bad idea and yes the drugs aspect was terrible. Also so many young women with teenage pregnancy was a bad idea. There were flaws, but the basic idea of loving others and no war and open to new ideas are all good ideas.

I was not a people person when I was growing up. I barely had any friends and while I would have embraced anyone who wanted to talk to me basically nobody wanted me around. Even in College. I was basically a hard working student who wanted to make money and earn a living. The counter culture did not exist all that much from what I could tell. Basically most kids likes sports and were in Business School or other worthwhile University Majors. They enjoyed parties from what I could tell and liked having fun and all but the counter culture never meant that much. Most of what they established had disappeared by the 1980's or so and without a viable economic base whatever values these unusual people might have had have disappeared.

If large group of people are totally against war and neocons, Im all for them. Thats why government and media didnt like them.

"Dresses like Tarzan, has hair like Jane, and smells like Cheetah !", Ronald Reagan

All today's loose casual dressed culture began then and is still here today.I prefer how there was some classier dress styles in 1970's,and then it all went back down again with grunge in 1990's and we are still not back to a good fashion.

Okay I’m like establishing a link between hair growth and drugs I love using that term here Some people love big hair. Beer too

This video makes such cliched and facile generalisations it is laughable .