I dont think that anyone from the younger generations can truely call themselves hippies. To me a hippie is someone who was there in the 60's, who were there protesting, lived in communities, gave up the whole life that was expected of them, and really changed the way Americans live their lives today.

People in the fallowing generations that do wear tiedye, and try to fallow that hippie generation, just are that, fallowing what they think is "cool". I think that they should go out and being themselves, most just are trying to be something they arent.

What i have noticed since i first started smoking, is that even I was trying to be the mainstream stoner. the one that is portrayed in the media. As i have grown older, i have devoloped my own path, my own style. Most people that know me dont even think that i smoke any more. they only think that im a nice outstanding person. I help out in my community, i am worried about some of the enviromental problems. but am no way a true hippie. may share the same beliefs, may live alot in the same way, but i was born 20 years after that era.

I admire those old stoners that talk about the years of free love, of free life. Maybe when im old, and i have a fw younger people sitting around me, maybe they too will admire my stories as much as i admired the stories from my elders. And maybe too, there will be a media "lable" for our generation that later generations will view as "cool"