I went to a hippy revival party and
wore my Israeli Defense Forces t-shirt and my George W. Bush White
House cap. Both were intended to provoke conversation to point out
that some people from the hippy era are not brain dead and stuck in
1971. I only got a few conversations, most hippies are afraid to
have high intensity dialogs. “Peace, brother.”
This is a good time to summarize the great contributions that hippies made to American life and to some extent the world. There were also failures that didn't go very far.
Successes: music, the revolution in....
Successes: music, the revolution in
fresh and diverse foods, openness in dozens of major areas of
information from book publishing to medicine, new competition for
traditional American medicine (acupuncture), new visions of health
(yoga, tai chi, organic food, running), new thought (Zen, Dao) and
new vitality in hundreds of small business products and services,
respect for recreational drugs, big improvements in sexual mores,
casual clothing styles, environmental awareness, the personal
computer, open software, a new form 
of simple living and my realm:
fun in business, open financial books, business that offers mutual
support and community-business direct interaction.
Failures: girls hitch-hiking, back to the land, communal living, coops, democratic management of business, open marriage, guru centered cults, barter, pacifism, Luddites, yurts, sleeping on the floor, water beds and medical voodoo.
The successes far out number the failures and I've neglected many areas where there are modest results or none, such as socially responsible investing, activist foundations and child rearing.