As is so often true, a Monkee makes the most convincing case

From the new Entertainment Weekly story on the 40th anniversary of the "summer of love:"

Peter Tork, singer and multi-instrumentalist, the Monkees:

"The Vietnam war was going on, of course. We knew it was bogus from the start-not unlike contemporary situations. One of the reasons for the Summer of Love was that a ton of kids simply withdrew from Lyndon Johnson's world because it was so clear that those who were in charge were totally bereft of any moral underpinning whatsoever. We said: You guys know nothing, so we're going to run off and have our fun."