Question by YoSafBridge: Articles about 60’s Counterculture, it’s impact and conservatives in the same time period?
I can’t seem to find many articles or information (of the non-wikipedia variety) regarding the 1960’s Counter culture and it’s effects on today’s morality.
Also I can’t find ANY information about the non-hippies of the 60s? Who opposed the Counterculture? Isn’t there any information about the more conservative people in the 1960’s?
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Answer by MVD34
If I might impose a bit of info from experience…
Mainly, I think you are going about this the wrong way — imposing the current (mindset) on the past. That’s really not the way it works. The past has its own view on things, sometimes related to the current, sometimes not.
For example. the counter culture WAS the opposition…to both the culture (at large) and the conservative POV. In particular, I think you need to look beyond a general idea and into the specifics. A huge portion of the counterculture was inextricably tied into three rather distinct political movements: the war, the civil rights movement, & the women’s movement.
A simple example of this is the Vietnam War debate on the Dick Cavett with the future Sen John Kerry in 1971. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6nazz1bu8
Notice it is another young man arguing with Sen. Kerry. (a conservative)
Second, you might want to consider that the 60’s Counterculture is a idea, not a literal time period. It was much more loud and mainstream in the 1970’s than in the 1960’s. It dominated the youth culture in music and college by the time I was 16 (1971). To a large degree it is specifically tied to the failure of the Vietnam War & the success of the civil rights movement…degenerating into sex, drugs, & rock and roll by the time of Watergate.
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