Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

The hippies practiced all this talk about peace, love, and mistrust for adults. If you watch old interviews of them they all talked like they were so different than their conservative parents. Yet as years went by, the hippies grew up and became the very thing they preached against. Their generation is the ones who try to censor rap music, elected george bush twice who is keeping us in the Iraq war, wear suits and ties to business meetings, introdudced the term "be cool, stay in school", etc. We now have more media propaganda, more commercialism, more lexus's, bmws', mercedes benz, than any other era in American history. And guess who is currently in power, the baby-boomer hippies. How could a generation who preached turn on, tune in, drop out become so close minded to the youth of my generation, and such commercial sheep? Was their movement just a matter of fitting in with their friends cuz it was cool? They gave their parents grey hair, but ultimatly became just like them.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

I was a hippie in the 60's. Another attorney said called me that the other day. I am still anti war. I was a Robert Kennedy Democrat in 68, and a supporter of George McGovern in 1972. I worked for Clinton and several other Democrats. I drive a compact car. I still love Eric Clapton and the Beatles. I do hate rap music, but that is my choice. I did not like bubble gum pop either.

A slogan of the 60's was speed kills. It destroyed one of my best friends. I still hate speed. And as a prosecutor I always will. Oh, yeah, and my kids, both girls, are both able to talk to me. They are both in college and both liberals. I am proud of what I was and proud of how I lived my life. Lastly, I still don't trust anyone over 30. Even me. ;)

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

Reality check. They had to get jobs to raise their families and live in the real world like the rest of us.

We all have to grow up sometime.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

Do you think maybe they have the experience and, now know they were wrong, they can speak out. It would be prudent to perhaps listen, they may have something to say.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

Hey Stevie, we got rid of the draft. Imagine no Bush for a second term if there had been a draft! Why, you might not even be here to post a question like this if there had been a draft.

Just know that we thought the Commie Hunters were the same as you think of the hippy generation. And know that the young people before WWII thought FDR was a threat to a prosperity.

When you're young and stupid. Everything, including Rap "music" and tattoos that don't shrivel nor fade is possible, remember that.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

The boomer's who draw your enmity were for the most part not hippies or in the Peace and Freedom movement, they were young republicans. Is everyone in you generation the same? We have all types of people in mine.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

Everyone was not a hippie in the sixties. As it is now, and will always be, many people have many different opinions on how to live life and how others should conduct theirs. As for the people who were hippies, they turned thirty and quite a few found out that having a job and taking care of a family took precedence over taking drugs and protesting for any cause that came along. You speak about how they became their parents. That has been happening to people all across the world for a long time. I'm a Gen-X guy myself, and quite a few of us were apathetic about things in general because we saw that nothing really changes very much. If you notice, I used the term "quite a few of us", because many of my peers didn't feel that way. Life has a way of changing you as you gain more experience. I didn't think that I would live past thirty, so I partied my twenties away, finally to "grow up" and realize that there were certain goals I wanted to achieve. Money and material things aren't everything in life, to be sure. But one thing is for sure: Money doesn't buy happiness, but it sure beats the heck out of being poor. The work ethic of most of the young people I meet today worries me. Years of sports where no one keeps score so everyone wins, awards to every child just for participating, etc., has spawned a generation of kids that come out of school and expect to make six figures a year and have every whim catered to. Enjoy your youth, but prepare for the future. If you really care about a cause, keep fighting for it. Be yourself, but respect other people's opinions. Just remember that everyone has to grow up sometime.

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

"hippies" are (were)people too. The movement was (is) about personal freedom.

Everyone including hippies feels the need for some rules to govern "other's behavior". First, you support some controls of behaviors that "there oughtta be a law against".

You pass a couple more laws to "make things better".

The next thing you know It all becomes a prison, (man).

The worst part is: when you help build a stronger prison for everyone else, (and things are not really better) you built your own prison (man). Soon there is no place left to go when you "drop out". The next step is "survive".

Just surviving sucks. Control your destiny (oops! there goes the freedom of others and self -again).

If you are going to get to the top do what works! (ethics? I will create a new definition for that later)

"We are always just one rule or law away from the total loss of freedom we abhorr" -(me).

Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's grow into such hypocrits?

because they were nothing but spoiled self centered drug addict losers from the start