Likely less than 1% of boomers were hippies. They call it “counter culture” for a reason.
What most people would consider “hippies” consisted of a pretty small group of people mostly living in California.
A larger and much less genuine movement came later when John Lennon decided to appropriate hippy fashion. But that’s all it was (fashion).
People who truly held core values like “peace, free love and compassion” were absolutely not the majority but they were loud and colorful and now we remember that period of time as being overrun with hippies.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A lot of them were hippies that became selfish assholes. People change. Especially when there are propaganda networks working to change them.
Except now every stupid, racist asshole has the ability to spread their message to millions of people.