The Summer of Love
By Michelle Pinto published

Where the idealists of 1967 went wrong – and the positive things they left behind
What began as a social experiment in free love quickly descended into chaos as up to 500,000 naive kids poured into San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district in the summer of 1967.
This second and concluding part of the exploration of the far-reaching impact of the Summer of Love looks at the dark side of the counterculture.
The death of the hippie, the birth of the yippie and a militant new left followed.
They lost political arguments, but the cultural influence of hippies can still be felt today in the rise of feminism, not-for-profit enterprises and the development of the internet, with global, collaborative ideals the hippies would recognise.
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