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geoph_chicago t1_ixipsq2 wrote

Question: did they stay hippie or did they become more conservative over time?

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SoberWill t1_ixji0ep wrote

Not OP but my hippie rural Appalachian parents stayed liberal. They however did fade from being hippies and got office jobs in the early 80's when I was born to afford a kid.

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dba1990 t1_ixjbdh4 wrote

A snapshot of the standard Baby Boomer homeowner at 21YO in 1974, about to piss away the ethos of the hippies and replace it with being conspicuously-consuming yuppies under Reagan.

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DISHONORU-TDA t1_ixjvi8h wrote

as Dylan and others pointed out, Death of a Free Festival (Bowie), it was a scene interrupted by financial opportunism and social fraud

just like every other scene before and after. I was With It, once; but they changed what It was. Now everything's weird and scary to me... And it'll happen to yoooou

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