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Originally Posted by John Mercier
They think about ''hippies'' because the Greatest Generation had a different set of standards; and though they didn't use the term ''woke'' were concerned about what Frank Herbert wrote of by using the term ''the sleeper will awaken''. The generational change meant that anything they didn't agree with would be labelled ''hippie'.
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Haha I’m not so sure hippies were defined by what they thought. I think the way they looked (unkempt, bearded, long-haired), spoke (man, cool, dig, grouch), and acted (drugs, jobless) were and are the hallmarks of hippies, no quotation marks necessary.
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