How did the hippie period end?

The 1980's is when the push to "grow up" really started. There was an effort to make hippie ideals seem childish and unobtainable. Those in marketing were hungry for that generation and it worked the yuppies went all in on material goods. Those that were "hippie" laughed it off as inexperienced youth. It's a message we still see today. If you want equality or love you are just a pot smoking college kid. We in the adult world see how things really work.

 

Now this is just my opinion but I think that 'hippies' was a term and a lifestyle to justify young men avoiding the draft. And it did sort of die out after the draft ended.

I joined the Air Force in 1966, about the time the hippie era began and was discharged in 1973, when the war was ending. I never really experienced any of the hippie things.

Oh well, I didn't enlist out of any patriotic purpose so I never condemned draft dodgers until some, like Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and this piece of shit we now have, wanted to be Commanders In Chief. I joined for the excitement and adventure of military service.

 

How many subcultures lasted longer than 20 years?

 

Manson and his Girls more or less killed The Hippie Thing !

 

Yep...I was in a college bar in Ft Collins in the summer of 1981 at the beginning of theRegan years. Instead of a funky rock band the lights dimmed and on came a celebration of military conquest slide show complete with marching music...and cheering frat guys. I knew that a part of the dream was over.