Hippies were the flower power people, inspired by Woodstock, who went to India, Nepal or other places to live an alternative life, some of them early ecologists, others attracted by Eastern mysticism, meditation rites in Hinduism or Buddhism. The believed in "make love, not war" and also were pacifist-minded people. Some of them eventually ended up as drug addicts.
A yippie hippie?
Would these be the whispering yippies per chance?
No, certainly not this Malaysian "son of Mohammed". It was rather a yippie-hippie from the 1970s who believed the sky is red, the sun is blue and the night is light and finally went to China in the belief that all people were highly spiritual there and that crappy training centres were actually Buddhist monasteries run by Buddhist monks. They worshipped the crappy TC owner as the greatest man who had ever lived on earth because they thought he was the Buddha, reincarnated from a previous life. On the way to Nirvana, he stopped by that crappy TC and took some crack and even more speed to find the Enlightment on the place where all people are equal instead under a tree. He later took a flying carpet and suddenly disappeared in heaven. Only the NSA knows where he has gone - because they know everything!!!! .....hahahahaha
I do believe Mahathir was behind that?