Hippies from the 1960s ask today’s progressives, ‘What happened to freedom?’
5 min readJan 4, 2021
The counter-culture movement wanted more personal freedom.
In the mid to late 1960s and into the early 1970s, large numbers of mostly college students were called hippies. The Encyclopedia Brittanica defines hippies as being a “member, during the 1960s and 1970s, of a countercultural movement that rejected the mores of mainstream…