Everything has a cause, so what was so bad, that it caused the hippie movement, which is a culture both of, and from victimization?

The hippie movement formed as a result of the counter-culture which developed in defiance of what was considered the "path of normalcy" espoused in a conservative society at the time. I'm old enough to remember it happening. The single most influential factor fueling the hippie movement was the Vietnam War. There's something about risking one's life for a questionable cause that motivates people to activism. The voting age was lowered to 18 and the draft has not been employed since as a result of the activism.

Hippies didn't see themselves as victims. We saw ourselves as courageous adventurers and artists. How did hippies come about?

Historians have remarked that the 60's were a continuation of the 20's. In both periods there was a sexual revolution (Margaret Sanger championed birth control in the 20's, and the upper classes were pretty free wheeling sexually). There was the same fascination with drugs (alcohol in the 20's, pot and acid in the 60's), and even the same interest in mysticism.

The hippie movement branched out from the beatniks, but the beatniks were cynical and hippies were romantics and idealists. And in no small way, the Beatles were very important to the whole thing.

The Hippie movement was born out of mainly young people who felt that American society forced too many rules in the younger generation such as how they should dress and cut their hair, and the expectation young people had to conform to what the older generation believed was how they should dress and behave. Back then people just followed whatever the government told them without question. Many young people could see that not all government decisions were good for the general public and felt the rich and powerful were making decisions that benefitted a few at the expense of the rest of the population.

So the Hippie culture was born by people who wanted to make the world a better place, where the government did not just pander to the rich and powerful. The generally wore clothes that were different from the suits the conformist citizens wore and thumbed their noses at the ruling class. Likely one of the biggest causes was the Vietnam war where it was the young men being forced to fight in a war and risk death while those deciding war for America was good and right didn't have to fight it. War mongers and armaments manufacturers got rich while young men were killed and maimed. Hippies protested that young men should not be forced to kill while others got rich from it.

The hippy movement wanted peace and everyone to love and care for other human beings. They were also some of the first to protest against environmental issues being some of the first to see mankind could not continue to plunder the pollute the earth and to make stuff we didn't really need. Many saw them as weirdos with their rough clothes, no proper job, long anti establishment hair, protesting everything many saw as normal. Many lived in communes sharing everything including free and open sex. Many went naked at communes and music festivals as they saw clothes as enforced beliefs forced on them by older controlling citizens.

By the end of the 70s hippy culture were dying out as many now had kids and saw they had to give their children a proper upbringing for which the parents would have to work to give them.

Woodstock Baaaaby!

Sociologists in the past have put the cause down to the overbearing control, conformity, conservatism, republican partyism of their parents in the 1950's, plus the murders of the 2 Kennedy's and Martin Luther King in the 60's.

So basically you've started with a belief and demand that others provide supporting evidence for your idea.

I'd rather go to work than be a street bum and one thing that the boomers are known for, is their work lives and another, is their college degrees.

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Kids from the suburbs didnt want to waste their life away domesticated by going to work until your 65 and strict parents that didnt accept them unless they had a degree