2. What’s Up With The Counter Culture?
• Late 60’s Historian
Theodore Roszak deemed
the new youth’s culture, so
uncultured that it’s actually
a COUNTER CULTURE!
• Sparked by the non
conformist’s “Beat
movement” of the 50’s,
young people followed
Psychology Professor, and
counter culture philosopher
Timothy Leary’s “Tune In,
Turn On And Drop Out!”
movement.
• Leading to ten’s of
thousands of drop outs,
jobless bums moving out of
town to create a community
of peace and harmony.
3. Peace And Harmony?
• Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll with a
touch of Buddhism. This
marked the Hippie Era.
Dressed in ragged clothes,
military garments and some
native American ornaments.
Oh and of course, long hair.
• Hippies main goal was to live
communally. In other words
they wanted to share…
EVERYTHING.
• By the mid 60’s Haight-
Ashbury of S.F. was deemed
hippie capital. But we all new
it was because LSD stayed
legal there untill 1966.
4. Do Your Own Thing?
• After a several years of
this type of attitude most
of the hippies realized
that while been ripped all
the time, trying to rely on
each other proved
difficult.
• By 1970 many were just
drug addicts. Legendary
Guitarist Jimi Hendrix and
female rock singer Janis
Joplin both died of drug
over dose.
• And finally when the hippie
movement died, thousands
lined up at the hated
government offices in
hopes of collecting
welfare.
5. Culture Will Never Be The Same
• Other than being
crazy and going
against governments…
hippies, as well as
their drugs put a
lasting imprint on the
world. A world with
more open sex, social
drug use, and a music
change that rocked
the nation.
6. Pop Art Begins
(Finally)
• Pop art was started by
Andy Warhol. Bringing art
into the mainstream. Using
simple commercial images,
Warhol repeated these
works of art over and over
again to make them seem
massed produced and
impersonal. His goal was to
show how individual
freedoms had been lot to
a “Cookie Cutter” lifestyle.
7. Rock & Roll
“The loud and biting anthem of protest”
• After “The British Invasion”
from “The Beatles”
Americans world of music
would be changed for ever.
• Many new artists came soon
after and artists still do the
same today. We got bands
poppin up everywhere.
• One of the biggest shows in
rock and roll history was
Woodstock. In 1969
400,000+ people lined up for
a free music festival with
countless rock stars. This
show was peaceful and well
organized. Just the way the
hippies wanted.
8. New Attitudes!!!
• Here it comes! The sex
revolution, once taboo, is
now casual. Throughout
60’s- 70’s mass media
culture began to address
the sex and violence in
life. Many people enjoyed
this new attitude and in
the long run it lead to an
accepting of liberal
attitudes about
appearance, lifestyle and
social behavior. However
back then it had an
opposite effect.
9. Conservatives…………
• By the late 60’s many believed that
the country had totally lost sense of
“Right” and “Wrong”. People such as
Richard M. Nixon (A.K.A. Tricky
Dicky) felt they should express this
anger.
• Well, Nixon wasn’t the only one many
other people believed that this
behavior would lead to revolutionary
terrorism, and anarchy.
• Psychiatrist, Bruno Bettleheim
believed that members of the counter
culture that grew up with a pampered
childhood actually didn’t have the
ability to express gratitude.
• This growing conservative movement
would put Nixon in presidency and off
set the nation for a while.
10. We’re Where It’s At
• In many ways we can still see the liberal lifestyle
today. Even though we have an understanding for
the most part that drugs aren’t exactly healthy,
and having sex all the time isn’t safe. We still have
the same liberal attitude, and we won’t not be so
judge mental and narrow minded for the most
part.
• For kids now, we have more well educated
lifestyles, although many of us try certain things
most of us are aware of what the outcomes can
be.
• I believe that we are the final generation that will
change the world and that after a century of
racism, war and overall confusion we can finally
put that aside and change for the better.
