It depends. Some people were literally using the counterculture movement as a sort of cover for their insanity, you’ve got people like Manson that were turning hippies into serial killers.
Then you’ve got the polar opposite, of actual hippies staying dirty hippies and not caring about anything that might be a bother to anyone. The worlds most innocuous and mild people after Buddhist monks maybe, assuming you don’t mind the smell of patchouli oil.
So, it’s a whole range of people, as usual. Any attempts to lump them all together into a group and apply a universal set of traits to that whole group is dangerous, mistaken and oversimplified.
Yeah, both aspects of the movement/culture were very real. It’s the same in the poly communities of today. You have people hiding behind the positive veneer of modern polyamory to abuse. You also have people so genuinely overflowing with love that they need at least two romantic partners to use up their normal level of romantic energy. And most people are somewhere in between those two extremes.
It depends. Some people were literally using the counterculture movement as a sort of cover for their insanity, you’ve got people like Manson that were turning hippies into serial killers.
Then you’ve got the polar opposite, of actual hippies staying dirty hippies and not caring about anything that might be a bother to anyone. The worlds most innocuous and mild people after Buddhist monks maybe, assuming you don’t mind the smell of patchouli oil.
So, it’s a whole range of people, as usual. Any attempts to lump them all together into a group and apply a universal set of traits to that whole group is dangerous, mistaken and oversimplified.
Yeah, both aspects of the movement/culture were very real. It’s the same in the poly communities of today. You have people hiding behind the positive veneer of modern polyamory to abuse. You also have people so genuinely overflowing with love that they need at least two romantic partners to use up their normal level of romantic energy. And most people are somewhere in between those two extremes.