Difference Between The 60 ` S And 70's

The 60’s and 70’s brought a huge counterculture and with it came a completely different experience to the youth. Teenagers opposed society and the war. They cared little for middle class values and institutions. However, they embraced equality and a peaceful more natural lifestyle. Some of the same things could be said today, the only difference is that Vietnam is now the Middle East. Jimi Hendrix is electronic dance music and unfortunately there are still battles over equality and women’s rights.

Hippies felt alienated from middle-class society, which they thought was dominated by materialism and repression so they developed their own distinctive lifestyle. Although the movement arose in part as opposition to U.S. involvement in the war,
The misconception however isn't completely false, for some people drugs gave them an escape from their reality and some of these hippies even became quite famous, some becoming rock and roll stars. In 1966 a group based on novelist Ken Kesey brought out his belief that psychedelics were were a tool for transforming society as a whole, and believed that if a sufficient amount of the population had the psychedelic experience then revolutionary social and political changes would occur. In a time before all of the effects of drugs were widely known, some hippies used drugs as natural mind-expansion supplements however not all hippies used these supplements . But Most hippies have had contact with uncontrolled substances, then again, most non sheltered people in touch with reality have had contact with drugs. Despite of the fact that most hippies were drug users, a great amount of people only used them to express their dissatisfaction with the social norms. People hated them for their appearance and lifestyle, but it was mainly induced by their fear. Tt cannot be denied that their movement was an open rebellion against society's ideas. However, after years society still believes that the lifestyle will always be connected with addictions. That image has been also maintained by entertainment and the movie industry. In
Asking a series of questions I wanted to understand everything I was unsure about. From an interview with a lady named Michelle, who's 35 I realized one of my own misconceptions. Before this interview I thought of hippies as a group of people with a certain set of values. I was completely wrong. Hippies are just regular people with children who have jobs and responsibilities and although there are many similarities in every hippie each lives, their own way and find different things to make them happy. What I loved most about this interview was Michelle story. She grew up in a hectic household her parents were divorced she told me a lot about how she knew she wanted to be completely different than her parents, but not because of their social or political beliefs but because of their life style and negativity. She told me that she raises her daughter to be happy and accept people no matter what they believe in or how they live. What really hit home is realizing that every common factor is that people find solitude in the most simplest, purest things in life simply because they have been faced with poor lifestyles or beliefs in their past. In my second interview things didn't go quite as well, so much on the information part of things so I searched for hippies online. I found several boggers one of which stood out to me. A 27 year old who actually lives in Denver. What was interesting to me is that she grew up in