Hmmm. Hippies are all free thinkers? Wasn't there a "Manson Cult" that consisted primarily of hippies? People in a cult aren't free thinkers.
In fact, the whole hippie movement of the late 60's/early 70's consisted of a whole lot of people who simply "followed" some radical movement because it was the "cool" thing to do at the time. Hell, any lifestyle that promotes drug use and free love must have been appealing to the underdeveloped minds of the masses just coming into or out of puberty in that era.
Everyone is brainwashed in one way or another. Don't fool yourself into thinking your mind is all your own.
Everything you see and hear when you are young can influence you. YOu conform when you follow either path... be it conservative or radical, or whatever else "category" there is for a way of thinking these days.
