> Frankly, I consider him the first hippie, an advocate for a lifestyle that didn’t even exist when he rose to fame.

Hippie-like movements have always popped up as an escape from authoritarian rule and oppression. Raoul Vaneigem frames this well in his book The Movement of the Free Spirit, about medieval and Renaissance heretical movements: https://monoskop.org/log/?p=7986

"He sees not only resistance to the power of state and church but also the immensely creative invention of new forms of love, sexuality, community, and exchange."