Reply #4: Only the eldest boomers got to be hippies

[Warpy]

and those born after 1955 were just wannabes who later settled for money since they missed everything but long hair and drugs, neither of which was satisfactory for the long haul.

People who try to lump everybody born between 1946-1964 into the same ethos are making a huge mistake. Younger boomers don't remember much of the civil rights struggle or the Vietnam War except images on TV during their early childhood. All they really knew about hippies came from tired old white guys trying to make sense out of them and failing.

While there are exceptions to every rule*, most boomers fall into two distinct demographics: those who were there and part of it and those who watched it on TV in their jammies before they went to bed. Our government has been fighting the former and trying to co opt the latter for the past 45 years.

*the obvious ones being the old boomers who sat in YAF meetings in college and rural beer joints growling about them damn commie hippies and the younger boomers who got the point and ended up working for peace and economic justice.