The Hippie generation was extremely privileged relative to all American generations that came before them. A mostly white generation of Americans who enjoyed the emergence of a middle-class, relatively inexpensive housing/higher education, broad-based prosperity.
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it was that new mass affluence that enabled that generation to "tune in, turn on and drop out," as sociologist Ted Roszak wrote about when he coined the term "counterculture" https://monoskop.org/images/b/b4/Roszak_Theodore_The_Making_of_a_Counter_Culture.pdf …
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