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First Hippy?

HeeHee.

The word Hippie was a play on the word hipster. It became a meme for anyone with long hair rejoicing conventional social norms and dress. The broad category was 'counter culture'.

There was no original hippie, there was a cultural evolution.


Before Hippies there were beatniks or just the beats.

There was no 'movement'. It was more of a media invention.

It was a bunch of young white middle class people hanging around getting high and fornicating..

As a goof Abbie Hoffman said on camera if front of reporters he was starting the Yippie Movement and the press ran with it.


Socially Ginsberg was very influential. An established poet. Hoffman was influential as was Timothy Leary for that matter. Hippies and drugs went hand in hand.

 
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