Happily Hippie-American

Paul Dougan is a Hippie-American living in Boulder, Colorado. A teacher, editorialist, writer and activist, he is looking for those willing to endorse and participate in a Hippie-American ethnic organization, a civilrights organization for Counterculturists.

With a bold new perspective, Happily Hippie-American rethinks Hippies, explaining how theydidn't end with the 1960s; rather, we exist today as a thriving ethnicity (with unusual ethnicorigins). Also, Hippie parents are often having Hippie kids and grandkids--generational transfer.Over ten percent of today's US population is Hippie-American, from toddlers to seniors--over 30million people. Hippiedom has been a boon to humanity: we invented the Personal Computer.We helped bring down the Iron Curtain. We created the natural/organic-foods and "adventuregear" industries and that hybrid of East-West healing called Integrative Medicine. We startedthe Greening of America. We are a huge presence in Hollywood--everyone from JenniferAniston to Woody Harrelson to Shailene Woodley to Quentin Tarantino. We are the driving forcebehind today's highly successful Legalization (of cannabis) Movement. We are so accomplishedthat if Hippiedom were an individual, we would call that person "the genius of the age." Butalas, we suffer from "social invisibility"; we have been targeted by neoconservatism and its Waron Drugs, and we exist as an oppressed minority of disrespected, second-class citizens. Weneed our own civil-rights organization and Happily Hippie-American shows us how we might dothat--for the good of ourselves and the larger nation.