Why do people hate hippies?

(Flailing arm wildly)

Oooh! That's an easy one! Me me me me -- call on me!

People hate hippies because they're jealous. It's that simple.

Hippy Chicks: Yup, fun is important.
Now let me do what I'm famous for and say it in rhyme:

Hippies have fun.
Hippies get laid.
Hippies live outside the system;
they are renegades.

If a domesticated steer with its balls cut off could look over the fence and see a wild buffalo bull getting his freak on with no boundaries, how do you think "he" would feel? He'd be all like, "That dirty buffalo so-and-so! No manners! No couth!" Yeah, well, joke's on him. I'm sure the buffalo could give a fark what the steer thinks of him.

That's how eunuch Tea Party types feel, I reckon, when they see the crazy drum circles, the marijuana smoking, the easy manner in which hippies handle their sexual needs. These people like order, damn it! They pay lip service to "freedom," but when they actually see it in action, they hate it with a passion.
Freedom is not free!: Apparently, it costs about as much as 100,000 Big Macs...
Freedom, you see, takes guts. It takes courage. It means going against the grain and opening yourself up to the ridicule of idiots. Hippy haters are jealous of hippies not even so much for their freedom as for the fact that they have the chutzpah to actually be free. This causes fear of the brave hippies with the guts to actually be free. Fear, as you may know, causes hate.

People hate what they fear and envy what they themselves are too weak or stupid to obtain. In a sense, this is why haters hate hip-hop stars: They are a little afraid that a "ghetto" person could attain such success, and they envy the fruits of success. Come to think of it, I bet there is a lot of crossover between those who hate hippies and those who hate hip-hop.