Hot take but the hippies fucking sucked and I absolutely despise the entire movement. They had no political message, no demands, no way of achieving their goals, and were an entire movement based on vibes alone. The 70s was a time of great economic upheaval and there was a real chance that things could change, that we could have became a more progressive society, even revolution was possible, but then the hippies came and channeled the revolutionary energy of an entire generation into doing fuck all. Quite frankly I feel the same about the no kings protest today, an entire movement based on vibes with no plans of accomplishing anything.

[–] MartianRecon@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Half the boomers were absolutely not hippies.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 17 points 13 hours ago

We forget that it was a minority of them. The majority is like every other generation: kept disinterested and selfish.