But then again he was a yuppie not a hippie trying to levitate the pentagon so that all the evil spirits fall out. ;)
And here we are where we are eh?
ISTR yuppies were years after the Youth International Party (and quite different).
Anyone?
Meant to say Kerouac was a beatnik, Abbie was a yippie who inspired a generation of dirty hippies.
And we've sunk further still but I don't know that there is a lasting term yet. Maybe it will be NPC? I favor Quaranteenie (which makes less sense but sounds more fun, I mean by it a teenager who was locked up during their formative years and ended up a politically active mentally ill ignoramus)?