
bob marley and reggae generally are not a hippie thing imho - if anything reggae was a "punk" totem - and pot smoking does not a hippie make

being of a certain age i grew up with hippies (or people who thought they were hippies) they were all generally 4 - 10 years older than me and consistently gave me (and others my age) a hard time just because we were young- condescending bastards the lot of them - and very fascist too in their left wing radical way - the vietnam war was a big influence and a major radicalising factor i suppose - australian blokes were being conscripted - by the time i was anywhere near 18 it was over so those guys a few years older who had either been conscripted or were faced with the possibility were a bit self righteous about it* - the females were just as bad as they were still digesting Greer's manifesto which they had swalllowed whole without being exactly sure what it was and whether or not all the detail added up...so now i not only got a hard time for being young but also for being a male
and don't get me started on that dreadful olfactory sensation of too much patchouli oil, boiling brown rice and not enough deoderant
* really it was the guys who were threatened with conscription but were able to wriggle out of it some how that were the worst - they even had the gall to give the guys who fought a hard time for doing so