How+The+Hippies+Changed+The+World

 "People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around- the music and the ideas" - Bob Dylan The Hippies changed the world in many ways. Their changes began during their era, but were everlasting. some of these changes were...

The Hippies took control of everything even the government to an extent. President Eisenhower once was quoted as saying, "I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. "  You know that a group has real influence when even the president wants to step aside and give them what they want. Most of the hippies were drug addicts. this lead to many adverse affects on their generation. During the movement many hippies shared needles for their heroin, this fact lead to a generation of people with HIV and AIDS, of course the people with theese diseases were the ones that didn't die from an overdose which many did. Of the many that overdosed such as Jimmi Hendrix many were icons of the movement, some people believe that this loss of leadership was a cause of the end of the hippie era.