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Hippy history index

I have written several blogs on the history of the Hippy revolution also written 'hippie'.

The hippy revolution was truly one of the great decentralized undirected human experiments.  I am not finished writing about the subjects but here are several starting points:

1. The blog on my summary of the hippy contributions, focused on business and related subjects that I know better than most people.

2. The shocking blog about the fact that the political and media world of the early 1970s completely misread the peace movement.  The peace movement was large because the marches were hippy parties.  The hippies are not  around today, in great numbers, consequently there is no American peace movement.

I said a similar thing in this blog.

3. My many blog musings on the hippy disappearance:  sex and ...

Hippy History

I want active participation in this project.  Hippies made an extraordinary contribution to American life that is sadly unappreciated.  I believe part of the bi-coastal malaise and bitterness is the surviving sense of hippies and others from that era that their 25 year endeavor to create a new world failed.  It was not a failure.  The hippy successes are part of the American mainstream and have made life more colorful and pleasurable.  The great hippie experiment needs to be appreciated. 
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Is it fair to suggest that the hippy experiment was the greatest voluntary human experiment in history?

The hippy experiment began in 1964....