The Influence of the 1960's Counterculture

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"While there is truth in the statements cited to the effect that the counterculture and the upheavals of the 1960s were often hedonistic in nature rather than politically directed or directed toward improving society, it is not fair to say that these tensions produced no significant alteration of the structures of American society. There were really two levels to the tensions of the 1960s, one politically and socially directed toward effecting major changes and toward improving American life according to the tenets of the movement, and the other an imitation of aspects of the counterculture, aspects directed more toward shocking the establishment than to effecting change, and based more on hedonistic and selfish desires than on any desire to make relevant and lasting change. The levels were not always distinguished from one another and indeed were not always ... "

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