There's always been a class of teenage dropouts, alienated, lost, and
without the education or social skills to get by in the middle-class world.
The hippie movement, as a whole, and the Jesus movement in particular,
gave them a place in the world, something that the kids like that no longer
have.
On the other hand, their lack of skills, and their really desperate
alienation and (understandable) rage made them difficult to organize in any
non-hierarchical communal fashion.
Marty Jezer
Author: The Dark Ages: Life in the USA, 1945-1960
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