[Nat]

A friend on facebook wrote today, "Never trust a hippie." He then got many responses back from people who either identify as hippies or who like hippies. He later apologized and said he'd recently been hurt by people he considered good friends.

This led me to a question: What cluster of attributes do you think defines hippies of today?

I don't define myself as a hippie, but I do feel a kinship with much of the hippie movement and a debt of gratitude for the contributions hippies have made to our culture in terms of challenging conformity in many realms - including the areas of gender and sexuality.