At 75 I am in the baby boom and I was in the counter culture. Lets just say from 1965 to 1985. The counter culture was driven by the Vietnam war. Reciprocal to the war was the peace witness inspired by the Quakers. During this same period, instances of cheap real estate and low cost apartments and free places to live existed. Also developing the skills needed for living a counter culture life were helped along by, unemployment insurance. Unemployment irregularly functioned as a cost of living help when I went back to junior college to study film and sewing.
The valuable and durable things of the counter culture decades are the peace witness and parallel teachings leading to the development of integrity and friend spirited relationships.
Cultural think pieces, I think, stand in inverse correlation to the vibrancy of a counter culture. They often seem to me to indicate that the author is mourning their lack of ability to participate in a prevailing current creatively, so they do so analytically. Our methods for distributing ideas increasingly optimizes for receptive talents rather than creative ones.
Another way of looking at it is that sometimes there’s something “off” in the culture that is difficult to articulate. Putting your finger on just what that is, and articulating it well helps other people see it and talk about it. And those conversations inspire solutions.
At 75 I am in the baby boom and I was in the counter culture. Lets just say from 1965 to 1985. The counter culture was driven by the Vietnam war. Reciprocal to the war was the peace witness inspired by the Quakers. During this same period, instances of cheap real estate and low cost apartments and free places to live existed. Also developing the skills needed for living a counter culture life were helped along by, unemployment insurance. Unemployment irregularly functioned as a cost of living help when I went back to junior college to study film and sewing.
The valuable and durable things of the counter culture decades are the peace witness and parallel teachings leading to the development of integrity and friend spirited relationships.
bro needs to read the society of the spectacle asap
Cultural think pieces, I think, stand in inverse correlation to the vibrancy of a counter culture. They often seem to me to indicate that the author is mourning their lack of ability to participate in a prevailing current creatively, so they do so analytically. Our methods for distributing ideas increasingly optimizes for receptive talents rather than creative ones.
Another way of looking at it is that sometimes there’s something “off” in the culture that is difficult to articulate. Putting your finger on just what that is, and articulating it well helps other people see it and talk about it. And those conversations inspire solutions.