Hippies.

The Hippie Generation were shamed by the Religious Right under Ronald Reagan.

But what did they do?

Reagan called them: "Unconscious agents of the devil" presumably because their rock stars secretly practised Satanism.

But it was never made clear what the Hippies had actually done.

Generation X embraced this policy with glee.

Targeting John Lennon and the icons of the 1960s.

But it was not made clear why.

It would seem that the problem was that they were Commies, not that they were evil.

And Generation X attacked them in a frenzied generational war.

But the Hippies are innocent.

Their rock stars may have engaged in Satanic magic but the Hippies themselves did little wrong.

Drugs and sexual excess can be attributed to their rock heroes.  

And criticism on this basis is hypocritical to say the least.

So the Hippie are innocent.

Our generation will be absolved.

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