Classic hippy ideology. What was it?

I'm afraid I'm not very interested.

Nice to see a literate r1

Seemed nothing specific, just anything other than conservative, christian, bourgeoisie.

Acid, acid, plus more acid.

Stuck on Stupid, Parked on dumb, due to drug use.

I know how I'd classify OP

Hunter Thompson knew but he’s dead.

It is hard to classify. Libertarian, Green, Utopian, Socialist, Communist, Libertine, all apply to some degree. Different people followed the path for different reason.

"Tune in, turn on, drop out" sums it up nicely.

[quote]How would you characterize the classic hippie ideology of the late 1960s/early to mid 1970s?

It was composed of a weed, LSD and cocaine mix.

What I experienced as a young adult in San Francisco in the late sixties and seventies is far too complex to be described by a single word.

My generation changed the world, much of it for the better, a lot for the worse.

Along with the incredible personal and sexual freedom existed serial killers, drugs and death. A significant percentage of my high school classmates fried their brains from drugs, OD's, or died and damaged if they served in Viet Nam. Girls who felt liberated enough to hitchhike where sometimes raped, assaulted, and some never seen again.

The good things were the environmental activism, sexual liberation, efforts to create racial justice (fair housing laws and labor laws) and equality.

What I remember with the most fondness is to just live one's life as you wished, unrestrained from the cultural norms that ruled the lives of our parents. My father once said to me that he would be a hippy if he was born later. Many of us extended our youth into our 40s and beyond, not tethered to the responsibilities of earlier generations.

R11 Today we can see the result of the Boomer generations child-raising skills.

R11 & the state of the US. Thanks brainless boomers..Thanks a whole fucking lot. Too bad more of you didn't OD back in the 60's & 70's so so glorify & try to recreate.

Its Donovan.

We had a lot of fun but also made changes occur. Thanks to us, you can vote at age 18 and we opened eyes about the Vietnam War. It is unbelievable to me what has happened with abortion rights. The Republicans could actually be reasonable back then.

R11, my nieces and nephews were raised by Boomers and they are all college educated in successful careers.

R13, why so angry and bitter? Perhaps you are blaming others for your own poor choices and bad decisions.

Every generation deals with the world they are born into. People react to the world around them as they find it. Would you like to go back to the stultifying 50s when we were still dumping toxic waste into rivers, banning minorities from fair housing and employment opportunities?

Although I was part of the Boomer generation I actually did not take drugs. I finished college and had a successful career in a creative field that I loved. Life is always a circus, a spectacle, and a parade, one has navigate it as best they can.

R1) saw something nasty in the woodshed.

Trump back then would have been more reviled than even George Wallace.

I think it was their generation that first questioned authority. The Vietnam War drove a lot of that. Young men were drafted and killed, fighting a war under a really stupid premise (communist domino theory). Now Vietnam is a high end vacation destination. All that loss… for what?

[quote]It's Donovan.

And it's "hippie," not "hippy."

This documentary from '68 includes a lot of interesting stories from young people in the counterculture, including hippies. The marketing ("Exposed!") is silly and salacious, but the movie isn't.

I was a little kid in San Francisco during the hippie era. The philosophy was basically anti-war, anti-capitalism (but not really), anti-deodorant, and pro-drug, pro-choice, pro-civil and women’s rights. The real hippies were gross and scary to me; living on the streets or squatting in empty buildings, and very aggressive in their panhandling. I remember one started petting my hair as my mom and I were walking down the street, and tried to grab me to ‘keep me’. My mother went nuts, and we avoided the area (Stanyan, near Golden Gate park) for quite awhile.

r19 every generation seemingly believes that... try a review of the turn of the century leading up to the great depression.

If I had to put it in two words, "Ah, man!"

r9 the 70s is more the meat for the boomer generation.... the crazed optimism met with crushing defeatism mid way thru.

Much of the 60s was led by the older... as with other generations. It's merely that it had the backing of naive and idiotic youth that carried on the torch as it were. Or crashed and burned as the majority did.

It's not much of a surprise the boomers despise their elders as much as the younger despise the boomers and so on.... despite many of their enduring idols being older than them.

Fuck off, OP.

Go and create your new political and social un-normative targets, elsewhere.

If you want data, go pay for it, cunt.

I Love You Alice B. Toklas gives a pretty accurate picture.

Classic Hippy Ideology..See Charles Manson & Family.

[quote] What I experienced as a young adult in San Francisco in the late sixties and seventies is far too complex to be described by a single word.

I'm an old millennial living in San Francisco. Was it really the Xanadu that everyone described back then or were their elements of it that were, but ultimately get urban legend over the years. Was it really as wonderful as what it seemed? The city is so beautiful and I picture people just dancing around in the parks and men fucking on the streets in the Castro, everyone smoking week. There is a restruaunt, The Cove, that has been around forever and only shows videos of the old SF on its screens, but it's more late 70's/early 80's, which was still different that the 60's/70's. Despite it's problems, it's still the best place in the world to just be gay - there are gay men everywhere, which is so cool. I'm from LA, lived in London, and there is just no city where being gay is the celebrated norm in a major city.

R29, I used to go to breakfast at the Cove! I think those days were pretty wonderful but not always. As I said earlier it was complex. My family first came to SF late 19th, early 20th century. We have 1906 earthquake tales. They were adventurers and rebels even then, my grandmother fled the rigid hypocrisy of the Midwest in 1919 where she came from an upstanding family with a womanizing father. She was an artist, grandpa was a rough and tumble kind of guy, a gambler, very smart and adventurous, had already traveled the world.

It's hard to distinguish my quirky family from the changes in the late 60s, my father had a business in a gay neighborhood, my mom worked for him and shopped the gay businesses in the 1960s-80s. She was a fan, spoke so highly the the elegant shopkeepers. I worked in advertising with the wackiest crew of creatives and was part of the art scene, it was heaven. I saw Janice Joplin when she was still with Big Brother, we went to concerts at Fillmore, Great American Music Hall, Family Dog, the Polo Field, rock n' roll, jazz, classical concerts in GG Park on Sundays. Crazy parties, he Mitchell Brother's porn theater (went to some parties there), seances, musician friends, late night dinners at 2 am, flats in the Mission and Pacific Heights, a great place to be if you were young, talented and beautiful. People were doing amateur porn even then.

Of course things got bad in the 80s with aids. I lost so many friends. Just before then the gay presence was intense but it started to wane and gays became more mainstream. The old gay clubs were something else. Not quite the hippies scene, but the liberation and uninhibited abandon cut across those lines.

Conforming Non-conformism. They’d all be covered in peace sign and dove tattoos if it happened today.