"Hippies": far from flattering

It's depressing enough to see your high school and college years show up on the History Channel. But it got much worse when they interviewed former hippies who now look like Granny Clampett or shuffleboard supervisors at Seizure World Retirement Village, waxing nostalgic about their glory days sleeping with 60 other unwashed flower children in a commune. "All of our money went into the pot," one said, "welfare checks, everything." I don't know what kind of pot she was buying. But the hypocrisy was more revealing than naked mud dancers at Woodstock. "Welfare checks"? So the hippies who moved to communes to reject "the system" didn't mind feeding at the system's welfare trough, even though they were all able-bodied and healthy? How embarrassing. "Cappies Puts The 'We Generation' On Stage" Cincinnati Enquirer