They want the salt on their food. Naked hippies would need to dance vigorously over each meal to release a sweat shower, and then maybe let the sweat dry up a bit before chowing down. This could mean their food risks the odd shitpit detritus falling in along with the sweat.
Over in Cyberspace, the squares and blue meanies tried to make their lives feel less meaningless and oppressive by trading jokes about pits and bodily secretions.
Meanwhile in Cosmicspace, the hippies were living it up.