Where Have all the Flower Children Gone?

So I'm a post hippie believer.  What I mean by this is I was born in 1961 which really makes me too young to be an actual hippie.  The problem is I was impressionable as they were coming of age, which means I was listening.  I listened to the whole "make love not war" mentality and I bought into it.  Their voice was strong and it sounded absolutely right to me.  There was a huge push regarding pollution, both land and air, and also it was a very natural timeframe.  People believed in being low maintenance.  The whole thing was totally sold to me.  Unintentionally at the time. 

These days, if this was society's message, it would be packaged up and we'd all be following along.  It wouldn't be accidentally marketed by teenagers.

My issue with this is that I believe actual hippies sold out.  Most of them became the power people we watched on 'Thirty Something' during the eighties.  They became rich through mergers and arbitrage and forgot about the message they made me believe.  They wore their suspenders and red ties and became the thing they most abhorred, I'm thinking now that I've been ripped off.  Where are my people?

Did reality just become too overwhelming to stay in our communes and wear our birkenstocks?

My career has never totally fit for me.  I go through the motions, attend the meetings, write the proposals, create the powerpoints but it's surreal.  I still want to be dancing barefoot under the stars.