towhee wrote:
I don't know how many letsrunners are old enough to remember the hippies, but it actually was a fairly short-lived phenomenon. It really took off around 1968. My recollection was it really came into full bloom around the time of the release of the Beatles 'Abbey Road' which I looked up and was dated Sept, 1969.
1) Drugs. No real explanation required. I'm all for drug legalization, but no reasonable person still thinks that drug use is something to be promoted like the hippies did.
7) Exercise and fitness (had to cover this one on lets run). Very few hippies worked out.
Your research is shoddy, pal. I will give you a D+.
The hippie movement went national during The Summer of Love (1967). Abbey Road had nothing to do with it. Try Surrealistic Pillow, Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced?, or Magical Mystery Tour.
Fact: in the late 60s very few few people worked out. Nike didn't exist. Jim Fixx and Kenneth Cooper had not published their fitness books and Frank Shorter had not won gold. Aside from YMCAs there were no fitness clubs.
Your assertion that all hippies were druggies is false. I am old enough to know. Your assertion that hippies are responsible for today's sexual promiscuity is absurd. Feminism, birth control, and popular culture changed sexual mores in the US and around the world -- whether your hair was long or short.
Your assertion that ex-hippies then went on to became evangelicals is laughable. How on earth do you think this crap up?
I am guessing you are just a garden-variety forum troll. But if I'm wrong, you are one gifted moron.