Hippie Villification
Posted by earle on 9/16/2014, 10:15 am
You know what I really can't stand?The way TV network news and the "Man" in general always depicted the members of the counterculture movement of the 60's as the villains in their plight against the establishment.What a smear campaign!They were out to stop a completely and totally unjust and even immoral war and THEY were the bad guys?The establishment press also had a way of misconstruing the whole LSD thing.According to the main stream press at the time,the drug was nothing but trouble as they would show pictures of those who had gone overboard with the drug and wound up sleeping on park benches in Golden Gate Park as if to say "This is DEFINIELTY what will happen to you.Nonsense!The psycho-tropic effects of the popular psychedelics at the time would differ from person to person depending on the mindset of the user as well as the environment in which it was taken.What was SAC's take on the main idiom of the youth of the times which obviously was to do their own thing and not just fall in line with the establishment and how their parents lived their lives at a similar age?A great example here would be the whole "Free Love thing".Suddenly,little or no taboos attached to things that if teens and early twenties types had done just a generation sooner,their parents may have wanted to tar and feather them.
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