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idealists who strived to perturb those around them to get their point across, either through art or protest, often referred to as the Beatnik generation. From this generation emerged people “in opposition not only to literary tradition but also to social structures…” (Diggory 104) such as Allen Ginsberg. Ginsberg’s lifestyle follows the typical theme of Beatniks, saturated with sex, drugs, and leaving America to find yourself, which he readily…

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does not much in itself. It has only the energy to say goodbye to the wrong life on Friday night and look for the right thing until Monday morning, in the stifling mist of the dance floors, in their flashes of light and their thunder of noise. „For beatniks, for hippies, for ecologists, for punks and other rebels, the fun of the other life in bad life has always been a foretaste of the future; for the raver the party is his life and his future […]" (Schnibben 1996). Furthermore, the techno-goers…

Drugs, music, and sex, Oh My! The 1960s were some of the most turbulent years in American history. Vietnam conflict, Civil Rights, and the counterculture were all coursing through the nation, all of which contributed to modern American culture and society.The counterculture movement of the 1960s had a significant impact on American society and culture. Evidence of this impact is prevalent in both looking back to that time and looking at today’s society. Hippies, as they were called by many, were…

Christopher Phillips is the author behind philosophy bestsellers such as Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy and Socrates Café: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy. Phillips believed in the Socratic method which means “the use of questions, as employed by Socrates, to develop a latent idea, as in the mind of a pupil, or to elicit admissions, as from an opponent, tending to establish a proposition” according to Webster Dictionary. Christopher Phillips is…

hippies and were mainly a group of white children from affluent families. They rejected the culture because they thought it was too unjust, restrictive and boring. Hippies were a part of a long tradition of cultural demurring that goes back to the beatniks from the 1950s and the bohemians. But behind the hip and beat cultures was the black American culture. Some hippies like the laid back and withdrawn approach to the current culture, but others took a more active stance against the current…

After World War II, and The Vietnam War took place, American citizens were extremely disappointed with the government and how government officials handled situations in Indochina, and throughout the rest of the world. As government officials increased the commitments in Vietnam, American casualties soared. The desire for cultural revolution during and after the Vietnam War caused the creation of new developments of art, theater, propaganda, and advocacy. The preceding ideal of American culture…

LaForge US Civics May 19, 2017 The Hippie Counterculture A counterculture is a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or variance with the prevailing social norm. The biggest counterculture in America is known as the 1960’s Hippie era. The Beatnik or “Hippie” era was between the 1950s and 1960s and ended towards the end of the vietnam war. The hippies were mainly white, educated, young adults, who were born after World War II and the Great Depression (A.K.A. Baby Boomers). This era has…

Starbucks: Spilling the Beans on Conspicuous Consumption “Starbucks does not owe it’s success to the superiority of it’s coffee […] as much as it relies on it’s aesthetic experience.” (Grazian, 179) An aesthetic experience that has caused brand recognition worldwide, while changing the historic significance of the coffeehouse into the commercial “coffee shop” that can be observed through customer interactions. But while the company has brought a familiar coffee shop experience to the world,…