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.
The Puerto ricans, various radical factions of the black panthers, a group of blue collar bostoners with like kids and shit did it on the side, whole thing. Most groups were like you and your closest three mates if you decided to go blow shit up