yeah turns out that a movement whose #1 priority was avoiding getting drafted so they could keep smoking weed and dropping acid didn't have the most ideologically disciplined members. don't get me wrong weed and acid is fun and based and I'm generally sympathetic to hippies, but they never had the theory or the anti-capitalist critiques like the Panthers or even SNCC. It was more of a cultural movement than anything else, and once the Vietnam war was over a lot of them didn't have a reason to keep protesting.
yeah turns out that a movement whose #1 priority was avoiding getting drafted so they could keep smoking weed and dropping acid didn't have the most ideologically disciplined members. don't get me wrong weed and acid is fun and based and I'm generally sympathetic to hippies, but they never had the theory or the anti-capitalist critiques like the Panthers or even SNCC. It was more of a cultural movement than anything else, and once the Vietnam war was over a lot of them didn't have a reason to keep protesting.