I think it's permanent, it will just change shape and be less radical.
The hippies are still a bit hippies deep down inside, and their main objective has been achieved. People know they can be hippies and it will be fine.
I am more unsure as to why subcultures have been ostracized in the first place if they do no harm to others.
When I lived in a huge city for the first time, i realized how unimportant all that was, I got to speak to all kinds of people, name any -ism, I have spoken to them, and they have all been nice folks.
Of course. Steve Jobs dropped acid, went to India and didn’t bath. He also stole ideas from others, screamed at people who disagreed and drove his employees like slaves and became a billionaire.
