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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 591355" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>I graduated high school 1971 and I knew hippies who seemed less motivated to change the world and more interested in using drugs and making trouble. I was against the war, but I didn't think that blocking traffic so that folks couldn't get to work or home was the way to stop it. Nor use possibly getting drafted as a reason to get high. Most of the kids I knew were very rich and went to college so they got deferments anyhow, but they still took drugs to rebel. I think that, just like now, most of the kids were very apolitical and disinterested and were not particularly bonded, except by groups: hippies/greasers (yes, we had them too)/jocks/brains...that was sort of our groups at our school. Lots of fights between hippies and greasers. Once the head hippie tried to lower the American flag and he was immediately met by several tough greasers who didn't let him and all of us were cheering and booing. Ah...those were the days. </p><p></p><p>Another thing our grandkids/kids won't know that was a great delight to our generation: Very cheap gasoline!!! I remember gas rationing and gas going up to fifty freakin' cents a gallon and all of us thinking that this was so expensive. Then I remember when it hit a dollar and that was the end of the world.</p><p></p><p>And one last thing our grandkids will probably never see is when most families remained intact rather than divorce and remarriage being the rule.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 591355, member: 1550"] I graduated high school 1971 and I knew hippies who seemed less motivated to change the world and more interested in using drugs and making trouble. I was against the war, but I didn't think that blocking traffic so that folks couldn't get to work or home was the way to stop it. Nor use possibly getting drafted as a reason to get high. Most of the kids I knew were very rich and went to college so they got deferments anyhow, but they still took drugs to rebel. I think that, just like now, most of the kids were very apolitical and disinterested and were not particularly bonded, except by groups: hippies/greasers (yes, we had them too)/jocks/brains...that was sort of our groups at our school. Lots of fights between hippies and greasers. Once the head hippie tried to lower the American flag and he was immediately met by several tough greasers who didn't let him and all of us were cheering and booing. Ah...those were the days. Another thing our grandkids/kids won't know that was a great delight to our generation: Very cheap gasoline!!! I remember gas rationing and gas going up to fifty freakin' cents a gallon and all of us thinking that this was so expensive. Then I remember when it hit a dollar and that was the end of the world. And one last thing our grandkids will probably never see is when most families remained intact rather than divorce and remarriage being the rule. [/QUOTE]
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