By Theodore Roszak

Whilst it used to be released twenty-five years in the past, this publication captured a tremendous viewers of Vietnam conflict protesters, dropouts, and rebels--and their baffled elders. Theodore Roszak came across universal flooring among Nineteen Sixties pupil radicals and hippie dropouts of their mutual rejection of what he calls the technocracy--the regime of company and technological services that dominates commercial society. He strains the highbrow underpinnings of the 2 teams within the writings of Herbert Marcuse and Norman O. Brown, Allen Ginsberg and Paul Goodman. In a brand new creation, Roszak displays at the evolution of counter tradition seeing that he coined the time period within the sixties.Alan Watts wrote of The Making of a Counter tradition within the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969, "If you need to recognize what's taking place between your clever and mysteriously rebellious teenagers, this is often the booklet. The iteration hole, the scholar uproar, the hot Left, the beats and hippies, the psychedelic circulate, rock tune, the revival of occultism and mysticism, the protest opposed to our involvement in Vietnam, and the possible bizarre reluctance of the younger to shop for the prosperous technological society--all those concerns are right here mentioned, with sympathy and optimistic feedback, via a such a lot articulate, clever, and humane historian."

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But precisely what do groups like SANE and TIP tell us about adult America, even where we are dealing with politically conscious elements? Looking back, one is struck by their absurd shallowness and confonnism, their total unwillingness to raise fundamental issues about the quality of American life, their fastidious anticommunism, and above all their incapacity to sustain any significant initiative on the political landscape. Even the Committee of Correspondence, a promising effort on the part 26 THE MAKING OF A COUNTER CULTURE of senior academics (formed around 1961) quickly settled for publishing a new journal.

So the radical adults bid to become gurus to the alienated young or perhaps the young draft them into service. Of course, the young do not win over all the liberal and radical adults in sight. From more than a few their readiness to experiment with a variety of dissenting life styles comes in for severe stricture-which is bound to be exasperatin, for the young. What are they to think? For generations, leftwing intellectuals have lambasted the bad habits of bourgeois society. " So the restive young, believing what they hear, begin to try this and that, and one by one they discard the vices of their parents, preferring the less structured ways of their own child- 36 THE ~KING OF A COUNTER CULTURE hood and adolescence-only to discover many an old-line dissenter, embarrassed by the brazen sexuality and unwashed feet, the disheveled dress and playful ways, taking up the chorus, "No, that is not what I meant.

More important, the young seem to feel the potential power of their numbers as never before. No doubt to a great extent this is because the market apparatus of our consumer society has devoted a deal of wit to cultivating the age-consciousness of old and young alike. Teen-agers alone control a stupendous amount of money and enjoy much leisure; so, inevitably, they have been turned into a self-conscious market. They have been pampered, exploited, idolized, and made almost nauseatingly much of. With the result that whatever the young have fashioned for themselves has rapidly been rendered grist for the commercial mill and cynically merchandised by assorted huckstersincluding the new ethos of dissent, a fact that creates an agonizing disorientation for the dissenting young (and their critics) and to which we will return presently.

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