"Bye bye Miss American Pie"

           Know this :  Among the Hippies there existed a 'Drive' to Understand "The Meaning of Life".  Attention to Drug Induced Contemplation, Transcendental Meditation and Buddhism (in general) was a Thread of Consciousness that had Spirituality as Ribbon.  Sexual and Intellectual Hedonism was ALMOST avoided, in that the Kama Sutra was championed as a Vehicle to attain Liberation and Enlightenment through Sexual Congress .   However, Devotion to the Practice of the Various Forms and Deliveries of Spirituality waned, Diluting Virtue Purity to unrecognizable Levels. Indeed, Pirsig notes that "the Pill" had the unintended Consequence of DEVALUING (the 'propagation' of) Children .  Children were Obstacles in the Life of not only Career but one's desire to be Free of ALL `Encumbrances` allowing for  an Existence of Dis-Responsibility to Evolutionary Demands and Societal Obligations .  "Smoke Dope, Drink Beer, Get High"  >>a Rally Cry of 70's Nit Wits<<  extended well beyond college colloquy and into Street and Gutter Obeisance .  

           Hippie-Ism died and died a Horrible Death .