No, to be fair to the hippies, they weren’t all like that, but my point is that people see one incidental fix (more sex/drugs=less political wars) and think that that must be the solution in all cases, because that way they don’t have to actually THINK about why the causation occurs. The hippie philosophy of “make love not war” is not actually (and I hate to agree with the friggin’ hippies) a bad philosophy… so long as the definition of “love” isn’t “make sex a habit, take drugs, and call me in the morning”. Because really, then you are only saying “if people just do what they normally do in private in public, then the world would be a better place” and anyone who knows what happens in private, knows that isn’t the solution to anything except “what do we do to entertain the perverts?”

Am I a bit of a prude and anti-hippie? Yes. But my point is that correlation and causation will forever be blurred until people realize that it IS actually important to THINK sometimes… merely saying “every time I see people using umbrellas, it is raining” doesn’t mean that umbrellas are at the root of this nasty thing called “rain.”