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Aviv Grill The Sixties From Recreation To Revolution “Don’t worry, be happy.” This phrase for the most part summed up the philosophy of the hippie culture. People were to love each other, and there was happiness and bliss. The hippie philosophy, though, didn’t just create itself. The hippie movement was revolutionized by Eastern influence in the areas of spirituality, music, theater, art, and drugs. The views of the East made the hippie culture …

…clearly by the rest of the world. One might speculate that without Eastern influence art wouldn’t have broken all the barriers the Western world had previously set up for it. If the hippie movement didn’t have Eastern influence, it very well could have become a big party rather than a revolution. Eastern Philosophy took the hippie culture and transformed it, bringing a group of radical liberal extremist together and turning them into revolutionaries.