Like I said in the first place: a generation later and somehow most of us grew up okay.
Remember that many of the "hippies," like their "Occupy" descendants, lived off of people who weren't hippies. "Do not live off the labor of others."
To be sure, there were some who walked the walk, earning a modest living selling crafts, running little restaurants, or doing handyman work. I've seen a lot of them in the coastal towns of Northern California. I'll bet there are several locations in Florida that come to your mind, too. They're quiet, cheerful, smell like marijuana sometimes, and somehow they strike you as the sort of people who would go to a lot of work to look you up to return a lost wallet.
"Don’t trust authority, neither commercial nor political nor moral. Even the most benign and humane institutions always serve their own agenda first."
Good advice. But remember all of those categories.