Why is there still so much nostalgia for 60's and 70's hippie culture?

Wow, all the neocons that comment on the drugs of that time amaze me. The drugs available and used in the 60's and 70's don't hold a candle to what is available and used today by the under 40 crowd. The current generation is the most druged up society in the history of mankind.

And for those of you conservatives that think the culture of the 60's has been discredited, I suppose you want to go back to the segregation we had in America before then. Most of your most cherished freedoms you have now were cultivated by the free spirit movement of that time. The poser of the question states that everything we believed in has been discredited.

Not really. The only people who believe that are your basic conservative Republicans who want to go back to the 50's and believe George W. Bush is a great president.

I'm a veteran of the Viet Nam war and I love my country and what it stands for. I am proud to be a member of the so called hippie generation. You ought to be embarrassed for your dumb ... more.

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