I think you'll find with every generation that there are those who joined a counterculture when young but ended up chucking it as they grew up. It's not just B

I think you'll find with every generation that there are those who joined a counterculture when young but ended up chucking it as they grew up. It's not just Baby Boomer hippies; you've also got Gen-X slackers doing the same thing, and you're starting to see it with the older Millennial hipsters as well. Young people say they hate mainstream society and want nothing to do with it, and as they grow up they change their minds. It's a universal constant. On top of that, a lot of them were never sincere when they were part of the counterculture; a lot of Baby Boomers became hippies just because their friends were hippies or they thought becoming a hippie would get them laid. When being a hippie stopped being cool, they stopped being hippies. No different than any other generation chasing a trend for coolness points. And then there's the fact that while the hippies were loud and got a lot of attention, they were still a minority of their generation. Not every yuppie was once a hippie, even though the hippies and yuppies were born in the same years. Remember that the Religious Right was founded by people of the same generation as the hippies.