Hey kids! you too can be a hippy!!! if you fit into the following catogories:

1) do not bathe,
2) have long hair
3) take lots of drugs and
4) read tim leary and hunter s. thompson, and proclaim them as the true gospels of your life. Lo! they are bringers of the GOOD NEWS!!
5) john lennon is now your modern day saint. accept it.
6) take up a heroin habit to be like janis joplin. quit it cold turkey to walk in the foot steps of john lennon. become like the master.
7) graduate from a university to study organic chemistry, just so you can synthesize quaaludes and LSD in your clandestine kitchen laboratory:-)
8) believe in free, careless sex without condoms with any willing partner.
9) smoke at least 3 joints for breakfast.
10) love eachother-- your anthem is now some hippy dippy song about loving eachother.
11) if you beg for change to buy marijuana at the mcdonalds on haight street--and openly state that you will buy drugs with the money.

the american dream isn't dead, it's just changed. where people before wanted happyness, people now days want a fat pay check and an SUV. quite disappointing, if you ask me.

PS-the idea of hippy has been marketed and capitalized upon so long, that the term "hippy" is just a bastardization. original hippies came out of the Beat generation. But alas, these are the days when the beatle classic "all you need is love" is on a chase credit card commerical. what a wonderful world.