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We hit one third of boomers being dead in the last few days. (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that's just not true. Time Magazine put the number around 300,000. In a country of 200 million, that's only 0.15% of the population. They were a counterculture not mainstream culture. The vast majority of kids did not become hippies, and many actively hated the hippies.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

A hell of a lot more than 300,000 people experimented with drugs and protested Vietnam.

True, but not all of them were hippies.

A lot of regular people, especially the younger generation, were doing drugs and protesting Vietnam.

Those two things are not what makes a hippie a hippie. It's their life view that does.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

People seem to have this view that everyone in the '60s was a hippie but that’s just not true.

'60s, maybe not, but 70s? There was a lot more of them then.

But yeah, not everyone was.