Anything from the white counterculture was called hippies by the press. poets, SDS, Yippies, Psychadelics users, Buddhists, rock and roll fans, folk fans, all of it.
Abbie Hoffman gave a speech about how "Hippies" didn't mean anything, but implied a lot of things and was more a rhetorical bludgeon than a reflection of reality.
What we think of now as "hippies" is a consumer identity built out of the rubble of the 60s and 70s to sell crystals and pyramid schemes to traumatized trust fund kids
Anything from the white counterculture was called hippies by the press. poets, SDS, Yippies, Psychadelics users, Buddhists, rock and roll fans, folk fans, all of it.
Abbie Hoffman gave a speech about how "Hippies" didn't mean anything, but implied a lot of things and was more a rhetorical bludgeon than a reflection of reality.
What we think of now as "hippies" is a consumer identity built out of the rubble of the 60s and 70s to sell crystals and pyramid schemes to traumatized trust fund kids
Yippies were the OG leftist troll army. The world needs more socialist theater kids.