the 60's and 70's, as young'uns, could turn into such assholes, worse than their uptight parents. And now their kids are worse than them. All the good things that came from those decades, it's like it never happened.

Although would like to see it become Earth for Life or something

The divide is always there. I read somewhere that as a population ages, or as individuals age, they become more conservative. And in my own experience, if the parents are liberal, the kids seem to be conservative or vice versa. Not always, but I saw many examples. My own kids were conservative when they were young, but as time goes on, they are more and more in agreement with my own world view. Which is comforting

I think some people are conservative and others are liberal regardless of nature/nurture. But I think being liberal involves some kind of enlightenment, emotional or intellectual or both.

but my babysitter told me hippies took acid and cooked babies.

But then I got to spend more time with my uncle (my dad's younger brother) who was a real-life hippie. He turned me onto Pink Floyd when I was 6 or 7. He never cooked a baby that I knew of so now I think of that beloved babysitter (I totally had a crush on her but didn't know that's what it was at the time) as a liar.

I'm 56 now and go to work every day, which is terribly un-hippie-like, but I go with a pony-tail down to the middle of my back (was longer but mother nature has her own mindset about my head hair. And my ear hair too for some goddamn reason) and I work in my cubicle (again, non-hippie-ish) but I have a music server with mostly death metal and classic rock but tons of folk and 50s and 60s music too that I blast in my cubicle 24/7 (my computer is always on in case I need to RDP in to it from home to take care of something).

My beard sticks out from under my mask but we have cut way back on shopping and going out and at work I'm by myself (everyone else working from home and that's why I can play my music pretty much all I want) so I'm not at too much extra risk I don't think.

The 2nd best part of wearing a mask in public though is that it upsets the RWNJs something fierce and that's makes me laugh. I love to laugh.

I met my husband the weekend I graduated from high school. The first song he played for me was The Fish Cheer (Country Joe and the Fish). I don't think we even knew each other's last names. lol I keep my radio on classic rock. I feel like I am catching up on music I missed when I was younger. It was like we had this marvelous soundtrack for our lives, but a lot of times, we didn't notice what was playing in the background.

Even if I didn't go to Woodstock, I did organize events at my school for the first Earth Day. And wore bell-bottoms. And had hair to my waist for years. I think I was born for the hippie movement, though, even if I was just a shade too late to embrace it as fully as many good souls did. You have unleashed a flood of memories. Many thanks

I'm pretty sure the same treatment was applied to 'Okies' during the depression.

people who couldn't afford shoes and clothes, what did they do? My mother-in-law grew up poor in rural WV. She told me about having to change schools, and going from a tiny country school to the town school, and how the town kids made fun of the way she and her siblings dressed. God. That was back in the 30's.

I don't remember the signs before the hippies made it a political statement. Although I grew up in suburban Cleveland, which was a good place to be back then. My Dad owned a grocery from the late 40's to the early 70's. He was very conservative, but I don't remember him putting the No Shoes, No Shirts, No Service sign on display. (He did have signs posted such as Better Dead than Red)