The speaker is Theodore Roszak, Professor and author of the well-known book “The Making Of A Counterculture." I interviewed him in 1989 for my television series on the 1960s and of all of the hundreds of people who I interviewed, he was one of the most insightful. He did not debate whether or not white middle-class largely suburban baby boomer children were spoiled. in his opinion they were.
Among other things, he studied the 60s generation phrases and their philosophies.
Be free.
Be happy.
Do your own thing.
Dropout.
Free love.
And he studied the drugs of the 1960s. Marijuana. LSD. Mushrooms.
He studied the powerful influence that Mad Magazine had on many 1960s young people, the sometimes outrageous use of four letter words, the dawn of the ecology and environmental movements, the effect of Dr. Spock and his suggestions about how children should be raised.
As a result of his studies, he helped define the 1960s rebellions as a Counterculture and he studied what caused those cultural explosions and what similarities there were to earlier American countercultural movements. He uncovered the parallels to movements in America in the 1850s including negative reactions to technology and back to the land.
He helped me to understand that while some of the activities of the 60s generation were silly, outrageous, unrealistic, and when looked at from the present, damaging to American society, there will also activities taking place in the 1960s that were relevant and lasting -such as the environmental movement and the back to the land movement, among others.
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