The entire thing is indicative of the failure of the hippy project to even contemplate enacting real change. You wanna change the world? Nah, take LSD instead, “don’t you know it’s gonna be alright?”.
The idea that any of these people genuinely believed they were doing anything other than assisting in the maintenance of the status quo is laughable.
Of course I’m not saying I thought rock stars represented the ideological pinnacle of the movement, but I’d claim that this sort of thought is indicative of the wider milieu.
Generation Loss did an episode on Fear and Loathing in LV on their last pod, they made some great points talking about leftists today needing to avoid to pitfalls that the counter-culture fell into (the discussion was kind of a tangent about the “you can see where the wave broke” monologue). Good episode.