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DerekG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:12 AM Original message |
Was the 60's counterculture comprised more of activism or hedonism? |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not sure... |
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NJCher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:21 AM Response to Original message |
2. I was there and serious |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:26 AM Response to Original message |
3. "if i can't dance, it's not my revolution." emma goldman |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:30 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. ps - fathers berrigan were liberationists too. n/t |
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DerekG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:31 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I'm not saying it wasn't liberating, but... |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:36 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. both. |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. do you know them? |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:39 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. Never did drugs, really never saw any... |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:44 AM Response to Reply #12 |
16. so true. so painfully true. wow. kent state. "The world just stopped." |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:49 AM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Are you experienced? |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:55 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. "and changed our culture." absolutely! |
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psychopomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 04:43 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. It is impossible to say *how* |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:43 AM Response to Reply #18 |
42. You got it! There is so much I could add, but I feel that it would |
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JSJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 03:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
24. regardless of the Berrigans... |
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thebaghwan (998 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:27 AM Response to Reply #5 |
30. I would definitely say that it was both. |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 12:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
46. i knew phil...and i would not assume to know what he "believed" about LSD |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. I'm not sure either, all I do know is that... |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:40 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. but it did work. nothing less works. n/t |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:40 AM Response to Reply #6 |
14. but it did work. nothing less works. n/t |
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punpirate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. Your questions... |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 05:27 PM Response to Reply #7 |
49. Speaking in generalities here . . . |
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JSJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:37 AM Response to Original message |
10. equal parts hedonism/activism |
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myopic4141 (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:39 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Look at who remained and who turned |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:50 AM Response to Reply #11 |
19. Bush was a cheerleader in college, the only thing about the... |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 03:07 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. effective contrast! n/t |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:48 AM Response to Reply #10 |
17. yes, the hedonism was the activism, it was about not being |
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ngGale (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:53 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Agreed, the music was the message and it was great...n/t |
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nofurylike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:57 AM Response to Reply #17 |
22. yes. social evolution. n/t |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:03 AM Response to Reply #10 |
38. At least in my area (Midwest) |
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Piperay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 02:43 AM Response to Original message |
15. I would say hedonism |
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Dr Fate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 04:14 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. I'd say the Munsters were funny, but SO were the Addams Family! |
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union_maid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 05:25 AM Response to Original message |
27. Plenty of hedonism |
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diamond14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 07:58 AM Response to Original message |
28. 1 % of Americans could take down the military/industrial complex (link) |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:02 AM Response to Original message |
29. The idea that... |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
31. The profound selfishness of Baby Boomers make the 60s a joke |
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PATRICK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:36 AM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Cancer is an interesting analogy |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:15 AM Response to Reply #31 |
39. "Cancer" speaking here |
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misanthrope (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
32. Since when... |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
33. It was not a monolithic enterprise. |
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bigbillhaywood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 05:38 PM Response to Reply #33 |
50. Right...a brief listing of big activist groups in the 60s: |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 07:08 PM Response to Reply #50 |
54. Thanks, sometimes I think I'm just pissing up a rope. |
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qwertyMike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:41 AM Response to Original message |
35. ACTIVISM |
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cestmoi (211 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 09:49 AM Response to Original message |
36. You don't mention the ECOLOGY movement & QUESTIONNING authority |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
37. The Civil Rights movement |
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starroute (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 10:23 AM Response to Original message |
40. The two were pretty separate until Vietnam heated up |
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diamond14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:34 AM Response to Reply #40 |
41. huge amounts of heroin came into USA in the dead soldiers caskets |
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WillyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
43. What... You Have To Choose ??? |
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bobthedrummer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
44. I was associated with a high-school SDS group in 1965-66 in Milwaukee. |
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bigbillhaywood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 05:43 PM Response to Reply #44 |
51. Dirty Commie |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
45. STRONG activism...the greastest decade of the century for social change |
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qwertyMike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
47. The Weather Underground |
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ElsewheresDaughter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 12:51 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. exactly! ........thank you qwertyMike |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
52. There was something for everyone to do |
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9215 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue May-25-04 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
53. I was too strung out on LSD to remember much of anything except |
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