Reply #16: Not very far indeed

[randr]

Hippies realized early on that the joy of life was to actually live the life we envisioned. The return to the land by thousands of middle class urban children of America succeeded in benefiting our nation more than the yippie movement or any one else could have ever imagined.
Some of these benefits have been:
The health movement, the back to nature movement, alternative education movement, extreme sports movement, and sustainable housing movement just to name a few ideas spurred by the hippie phenom.
In small communities across America hippies joined with "locals" to transform years of government neglect of education systems. They have created coops to fight the corporate agri/business. The lifestyle of the hippie is now sought after by thousands more people who have become disillusioned by the compromises enforced by urban success. Try to find a reasonable priced piece of land in any of the hippified communities.
I also believe that the emergence of a value oriented political consciousness, such as DU, has been part of this process as people come to realize that our happiness is dependent on our personal responsibility to have all the fun we can have without harming any thing or body.
Additionally I was amused that in a spell check the word yippie defered to yuppie.