[woofie]

If you look back to the founding document of the 60's left, which was the Port Huron statement (also promulgated in Michigan), you will easily see that it was in essence a conservative manifesto. It spoke in vaguely Marxist terms of alienation, true, but it was reacting to bigness and anonymity and urbanization, and it betrayed a yearning for a lost agrarian simplicity.

[BunnySlippers]

Maybe. But your take on this was not the gist of the "hippie movement".

[Pinetop]

And, IMHO it was fueled by fear and drugs. Which raises interesting questions: Did the hippies take drugs because they were self medicating because of fear, paranoia, etc? Are the people of that generation that are now on Prozac taking it because of the effects of the drugs they took or did they always need to be medicated?