Comments by "alex carter" (@alexcarter8807) on "JimmyTheGiant" channel.

  1. The Beats were admired by the hippies but were NOT hippies.
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  2. They were middle-class, could drop out of college - that their parents paid for - confident that they could hop right back into college. They could take a "vacation" in Canada or Switzerland or wherever, while working class kids got drafted. Silver spoon kids. These days, I can go to a town inhabited by the (now much older) hippies, Santa Cruz, and they are insufferable. Smug, nasty, very entitled. There are no poor hippies. Big houses, expensive cars, and contempt for the working-class are par for the course. Your typical "Karen" was a hippy in her younger days. I think people confuse the hippies with the people the hippies claimed to admire: The old socialists and social activists from the old 1930s folk/protest music people to the Beat generation. Those were people who really were poor or were willing to become poor to further social causes. Not the hippies! A hippy would never willingly make less money. Being a hippy was all about not being sent to the Vietnam War and having some working class kid have to go instead, and hangin' out and bein' groovy until the Vietnam War blew over and you could inherit your father's business/stock portfolio/real estate/etc.
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