Why did the baby-boomer hippies of the 60's become 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 l

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

Because they grew up and realized that life isn't all sunshine and lollipops. There are winners and there are losers. There are those who will suffer and those who will be suffered. There are wars to to be fought and battles to be won. This is real life - get used to it or get out.

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

I never thought of it this way. But are you positive it's the hippies or the CHILDREN of the hippies? The power suits of the 80's? Because most of the hippies we're adults during the movement or young adults, and many had children very young due to "free love".

You should email me sometime, this sounds like a good debate.

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

I dunno but it reminds me of this disscussion back in my Junior Government class back in high school. We talked about how most of the time, Democrats( or more liberals..."Hippies") are a majority of younger people all about change but as the grow older their views shift from making change to staying the same. (Republicans or "Hard asses") This is why more Republicians are older. They changed what they wanted to change now they want it to stay the same....hence yesterday's idealists makes tomarrows hypocrites.

Granted this isn't always the case but in majority I believe thats how it is, I'm from a family of die hard Republicians (even my twin is one and we're only 18!) and I'm more democrat-ish....or whatever.

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

Hi,

Because politics, they come and grow but greed goes on forever. I remember some members of the establishment in our time used to just laugh and say that while we had not yet cut the umbilical cord and were comfortable in school we could have time to protest, grow our hair longer and feel for our fellow man but once someone would grease our palms with a car, house, secure job in order to look after our spouses in the manner which they would like to be accustomed, have children etc, we'd shut our mouths, get to work and tow the line... they were right on this. Now instead of marching for social justice and getting beaten on by cops, we worry too much about carbon build up in the valves of our overated BMW's, should the house have a swimming pool, jacuzzi, home theatre etc.

On luxury cars, credit became far easier to get over the last 40 years. Foe example the only credit card available around 1957 - 1960 was American Express but the balanace had to be payed in full every month and by today's currency, one had to be making 80k plus to qualify. Loans are easier to get than in that era and if you owned a Mercedes or Cadillac, boy you were really somebody. Today if you put 2 - 5k down and pay 700 a month anyone can have one so they are no longer reflective of social status.

As for hair and music, I remember my dad howling about the Beatles when they appeared on our 15 inch 2 channel, black and white TV on Ed Sullivan. I bet they sit down to go to the bathroom and wear pink panties he roared. Many other parents felt that way and when hair started touching our ears the family crisis started. We got barred from class and restaurants sometimes over hair length. Perhaps others have forgotten but since that time I swore I'd say nothing to kids who grew up after me and pink spiked hair through to pierced bodies and tattoos are something I do not complain about and often I need to remind yuppies of how short their memories are on this.

That said, I am not happy with music today. There is little skill and just a pretty face backed by computer generated music makes icons of many who are talentless. Look back to clips from the 60's and see how the likes from Eric Clapton to Jimmy Hendrix could handle their instruments without artificially generated music. Rap was unique in the early 80's when it came out but that is all there is other than whiney Whitney Huston type piono bar songs. In my time and collection you had a huge variety of music in Afro American culture from Otis Redding through to the Supremes, Issac Hayes, Sly and the Family Stone, IIke and Tina to the Boxtops etc. Where oh where has that talent and great variety gone? In the case of music I consider myself to be realistic and not hypocritical.

Cheers,

Michael Kelly