One thing I don't understand is how we turned from free love and peace in the 1960's mainstream to today. It is like the 1960's never existed at all.

Though, there is probably more truth in that comment than realised. Many people in the 1960's aren't these people you actually see in Austin Powers and other TV shows, majority of them had quite "normal" lives. So if anything, the 1960's are a complete misrepresentation, or only around for a very brief and certain socioeconomic generation.