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Second World War Ends
The Second World War Ends, leaving behind a shattered Europe and damaged world. The People start to rebuild, an attitude of rejection to chaos and war. The people want to rebuild and restore stability. They become very sombre and quiet. -
The Baby Boomers
In the 1950s, the world starts to become more sevre. Life is bland and dark and people are very sober. The Baby Boomer Generation Begins. -
The 60s Rebellion
As the 60s start, the world begins to turn against the sobreity of the 50s. A proper Counter Culture begins. -
The Start of the Hippies
As the 60s came around, people started to call for change, and rebel against the sobriety of the past generation. They called for social change and freedom. This was the start of the hippie era. -
The Middle Years
By this time the Hippie counterculture movement was in full swing. These people were fighting for peace and love, and civil rights. They rejected the tough mandate of the government, and the opinions of thier parents, in the true way of a counterculture. This was the first true example of a major counter culture. -
The Summer of Love
The center point of the hippie era. The counter culture's most powerfull, influential, and steryotypical moment. -
The New Counterculture
The Hippie after a long stretch of power started to wane. This was mostly because of the nature of counterculture itself. When a counterculture, becomes mainstream, then the next generation feels the need to reject it. This lead to a counterculture od depression. Music like punk and dark rock, in keeping with the looming threat of the cold war, and the scorn of the peace and love hippie ideals. -
The Money Age and it's counterculture.
The 80s, where MNCs started to become more and more powerfull, and money ruled the world, was when the real punk counterculture started to emerge. This counterculture also linked in with the anti hippie counterculture. The two of these together made the kind of Gen X 70s and 80s counterculture very messey. There were so many diffrent kinds of groups that counter culture was difficult to define. It wasn't so much about conflicting political ideas, as just being contrary. -
The Counterculture of Counterculture
Finally, counterculture becomes a mere mechanic of growing up. Insted of having meaningfull political connotations, counterculture becomes a trend. To reject the mainstream is the idea of conuterculture. And this, is the current counterculture. -
What's next?
As time goes on the counterculture has started to change again. But the question is what will be the new counterculture that emerges from a counterculture of rejectionisim.