he world's mind. According to Stern, "The
dazzling thing about them was that they were so happy. They did not reject the perkiness that
suffused the early sixties. They smiled and danced and got high and loved everybody. They
wore flowers in their hair and painted their bodies like freaky Easter eggs. Their program for a
better world was one where everyone was mellow."
The hippies embraced music and drug, especially marijuana and LSD. The hippies felt
that LSD would help free their mind, and they embraced the effects of the drug. Burton Wolf, a
contemporary of the hippie scene, wrote, "Several times, I saw barefoot hippie girls in a big pile
of dog excrement, calmly walk to the curb, and scrape it off like you would from your shoe, 'I
used to worry about things like that before I took LSD,' one of them told me. 'Now my mind has
opened, and I see that it's all part of life: dirt, feces everything. Feces are groovy.'" The hippies
were peaceful people who were trying to make the world better, this, however, would change. A
large portion of the hippies would be brought into radical groups and unknowingly be turned
1967 marked a change in the way of protesting. "After 1967, countercultural activists
followed two major paths: the revolutionary 'magic politics' of the Yippies, and the 'here and
now' revolution of rural communes." The break from the hippies way of thinking is in part due
to the ineffectiveness of their "here and now" revolution. They were tired of peaceful protests as
the means to their end and they were sick of the interminable theorizing of the New Left. They
wanted results. The Yippies (an acronym for the Youth International Party),". . .were conceived
by Abbie Hoffman, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, Jerry Rubin and friends on New Years Eve in
1967 to coax, goose, entice a...