Current Events > I've been reading about the 1960s and 1970s American counterculture. Again.

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I was already very knowledgable about this time and place, but I've still learnt some new stuff. John Lennon, with all his moronic protest songs; a guy called John Sinclair, who was an activist, and spent a few years in prison; some of Nixon's pathological fear about activists and what they did; attempts to deport John Lennon from America; various things about the Black Panthers; stuff about the Weatherman, later the Weather Underground.

How does CE feel about the counterculture from this period? I know many on CE think of themselves as modern counterculture, like scenesters, emos, simps, and so on. Counterculture is very different these days, I suppose. It's largely about going to certain websites, to say nothing of ridiculous political views.

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MeIon Bread posted...

I was already very knowledgable about this time and place, but I've still learnt some new stuff. John Lennon,

Lol

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I already knew plenty about John Lennon. I was referring to specific stuff. To be fair, I'd already read two books about British history, that he was discussed prominently in.

Anyway, it's John Lennon.

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