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Very classy.
Another hippie puncher.
THEY certainly have made the world a better place 
When is it going to be released and will it be in movie theaters??
I don't think your premise that hippies weren't right about things is incorrect. It has been my observation that the hippies were right about some things!
I don't think the hippies thought that marijuana was going to change anything. The hippies weren't dumb they knew that TPTB would never give up their power. I grew up hearing that war was necessary for economic stimulus. I also knew that working at a defense contractor I could make a lot more money than the career path I ended up taking. I did not want to work for a company whose sole purpose was making bombs or planes in which to drop those bombs on innocent human beings no matter which country they lived in. And yes I was a pot smoker, so my decisions were about peace and harmony.
Society has to want to change to make things better. That is where DEVO gets it right. They understood that! We as a society have to want to make the changes that are necessary to coexist on this planet. However, we have not evolved yet in making the necessary changes.
From an old hippie. 
And we still are. And we prefer the term "free spirits".
Haters gonna hate.
Get over it. Lighten up. Come and get some free love, sexy baby! 
back in the 1970s. I was insanely jealous that we never had a horror host that cool in the Twin Cities back in the day. Nowdays you can find much cool Ghoulardi material on youtube.
Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson eventually became an announcer for ABC. He was the voice of "The Loooooooooove Boat" voiceover. What an age we live in, Dobie.
STAY SICK! KNIF!
I was too young to be a hippie, but was very much a freak in the 1970s. Rock 'n' roll (the weirder the better), weed, the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, homemade water pipes, hair halfway down my back - the whole nine yards. Had "Impeach Nixon" stickers on my bass cases. Ahh, those were good times.
"The hippies were right" videos mean that we are now living in peace and harmony, widespread use of marijuana has brought paradise, free love, etc. In fact, you're trivializing something really important here, and you shouldn't--which makes me think you are either misinformed, a troll or making a joke that no one is going to get (if the last, you might want to start making use of the smilies there to cue people to laugh). The "Hippies were right" videos say things like "The Hippies were right, we are ruining the environment and we need to take care of it." And "mass processed food is full of bad stuff," and "war is bad" (that's not right? Huh. Coulda fooled me given the whole Iraq fiasco).
But, again, what you're really getting wrong is the message, which you seem to take as "The hippies pop culture phenomenon was the best!" This upsets you because, obviously, your '80's pop culture phenomenon was the best! Still stuck in "Breakfast Club" High School are we? Like bubble skirts, Ronald Reagan, crack cocaine, "The Facts of Life," and Mili Vanilli were such great culture contributions....
News Flash: "The Hippies were Right" isn't an argument for "free love." It's an argument against the usual conservative, 1% bullshit which demeans and mocks (wow, just like you're doing) certain important facts so that the messenger of such facts, and his message will be ignored. This allows certain conservatives and 1% type folks to keep doing what they want to do--the stuff that makes them rich and powerful. Like polluting and creating weapons for pointless wars.
Oh, and FYI, the ridiculous culture war between Gen X and the Hippies is 30 years out of date. Get over it. The "Hippies were right" doesn't mean that the Gen X folk (and Devo) were wrong. There is a common enemy here, and so long as you turn your sights on the Hippies rather than on that common enemy, it doesn't matter who is right, no one will listen to your message.
I was there in the '60's and we really did believe that understanding in conjuncion with peace and love could accomplish a lot. We weren't wrong, it just didn't take hold and that's why we are where we are. 
I have their cd's and have seen them perform a couple of times.
This hippie approves of Sons of Hippies.
Your loss if you still can't dig it, man.
For what it's worth there never could have been a Devo if we hadn't cleared the path for them. You obviously have no idea how repressively authoritarian social mores were before the sixties. Don't blame us if you're painfully lacking in hipness as originally defined by Jack Kerouac:
the ability to figure out what's really going on without having to have someone explain it to you.
And as has been noted above, "hippie" was actually the establishment media's propaganda term, we called ourselves "freaks" and "heads".
at the time, since it was clearly a pejorative label, but I guess at some point I gave up and came to accept it. Maybe we should try to remove the word from polite conversations like we have the N word. Heads of the world, unite! Take back your identity.
ed. And they can bring back the $10 lid while they're at it. 
oh, yeah....DEVO.... they weren't doing any drugs, noooo...
... that the term "hippie" means lots of different things.
The version put forth in this article is by no means the definitive one, more like a straw man.
In any event, Devo, or any band that Eno would deign to produce (with the possible exception of U2 but hey the dude had to get paid somehow) is just all right with me. 
The Tikkis
