After living in fear, traumatized with the Vietnam war hippies are leading the baby boomers to a new diverse society. Hippies, they are young teenage individuals that range from the ages of 14 to 25 years of age, during the time period of the summer of love. Baby boomer’s generation were born 1945 through 1950, the …show more content…
A world that helped them cope with a strong structure that freed them from war, discrimination or racial displacement. Baby boomers started a new way to direct the happy living, by uniting and securing a safe place to relate at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. They had a good since of calmness and respect for humanity and nature. There was also a group who was called the diggers. Diggers would help them by providing free food that was salvaged from the market, and they would prepare and serve it to the hippies. The mistakes that were done by hippies was not working, believing money is the root of all evil and using LSD. The drug that were being used started attracting drug dealers who wanted to introduce higher addictive drugs to susceptible adolescence. Misinterpreting the genuine reasoning for the hippies’ gatherings, a new group joined with a different purpose of delinquency