Hippies

Why isn't the world a better place? The hippy culture of the 60's preached love , sharing, peace and tolerance and there seemed to be a lot of high profile adherents to these tenets. The people who were amongst the movers and shakers of the counterculture often came from influential families and were well educated with every chance of changing the system as they inherited property and power.
Didn't happen though did it?
It seems that as the flower people grew older and reached middle age (during the "greed is good" 80's) they were worse than the generation they professed to despise. The hippies should have been able to change political goals and the exploitation of the least fortunate in society. They should have scoured the system like a peace and love enema. Instead when it became time for Moonchild and Bilbo to attend public school and living in a tee pee started to lose it's charms they grabbed everything that capitalism could offer. It's often stated that "if you can remember the 60's you weren't there" but i think it more likely this amnesia is caused by embarrassment that they had the chance to make life better and fairer and they blew it.
"Never trust a hippy" said the Sex Pistols, or at least Jamie Reid and they were right. The man that remark was aimed at was hippy poster boy Richard Branson who now fails to make the trains run on time - which makes him worse than Mussolini.
Joe Public smiles as Richard bleeds them dry in his role as the great British ballooning eccentric and alt capitalist icon so it's our own gullible fault really.
AND.....he's responsible for fuckin' Tubular Bells too!