What you describe seems to echo what bassist Corinne Marienneau described in the TV show about hippie communes (see my post above).
What kind of stuff that was taking advantage of?
For instance secular humanism is a framework, confucianism is also one.
A framework for social and individual life.
I don’t know which is the proper adjective: philosophical framework? thought framework?
I disagree. You will find in my original post the features that define transcendentalism, an American literary movement, which is a major source of the hippie framework.
I pop @coffee because it might interest him.
(1) Is it the hippie culture which gave you this freedom, or the Enlightenment political and philosophical framework with is values: the rule of law, reason (science and technology), democracy, a liberal form of nationalism, etc.?
(2) Is it the hippie culture which gave you this freedom, or the military, the police, the intelligence services, who work everyday all day against foreign dictatorships imperialism so that the US can successfully preserve its values in the benefit of its people?
(3) Is it the hippie culture which gave you this freedom, or the scientists, the engineers, the innovators and the entrepreneurs who create and make available at low prices extremely sophisticated products for communication, transport, health, etc.?
(4) Is it the hippie culture which gave you this cultural freedom or the political, philosophical and economic framework described above, allowing many different cultures over the world to collaborate (principles of toleration and freedom of speech, freedom of assembly), inventing products for the massive democratization of culture (the radio, the vinyls), and the very musical instruments that the artists use (the electric guitar)?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the hippie movement overtly attacked each and every (1), (2), and (3).