2010s counterculture coming soon

I believe the phenomenon of the 60s counterculture is going to be repeated during this decade.  This belief is based on a number of things.

The 60s counterculture wasn't really thought of as such at the time - the vegetarians weren't especially interested in being linked with the black power movement, who weren't especially interested in being linked with the hippies, who weren't especially interested in being linked with the women's libbers, who weren't especially interested in being linked with ....etc etc.  But now we look back at all that stuff and we call it the counterculture.
I think the same will happen with various things going on during this decade.

Some of those things have already begun, and some might have been around for ages (just as 60s vegetarianism wasn't a new thing, and so on.

Examples include the Occupy movement, Pussy Riot (both started small and exploded worldwide), various naked protestors (Stephen Gough, Femen, WNBR, etc) freecycling, permaculture, and so on.


Edited by Stool Man - November 17 2013 at 08:00

The old man is against it, dude.

I wasn't choosing, (thou' admittedly I was glibly dismissive), I genuinely believe it isn't happening and isn't likely to happen. And by "this" I mean any dramatic change to existing cultural norms as a result of an cohesive opposition by those groups regarded as being part of this counter-culture.

How to spot someone who will never save or change the world, but wants everyone to think he really wants to, whilst remaining anonymous, yet really wanting to be on TV.

He/She wears one of these:



Edited by Jim Garten - November 21 2013 at 06:57

sounds close but .....

I wouldn't recognise counterculture if it jumped up and bit me on the &rse to be honest.

Things like the occupy movement don't really count IO, because they are comprised of people from different backgrounds and social classes who ultimately want the same thing; a larger slice of the pie so they can live a normal comfortable mainstream existence. I'm sure they would claim they are challenging the status quo, but to be honest, I don't think many of them really understand what the status quo is, and how it works. Most certainly will have no grasp of economics.

You could argue a modern counterculturist is someone who makes sure they don't burden themselves with stacks of debt...

I think the power establishment is much more "ready" to counteract any would-be changes to the system, than they were in the 60s.  Nowadays, they can manipulate the mass media into making us believe that these colorful countercultural icons represent a real shift in the national mood and the way things are done.  Meanwhile, nothing actually changes.  The rich and powerful still own and control everything.  Any real changes are superficial and not fundamentally important in the grand scheme -- the powers that be see to that.

I wasn't alive in the 60s but if there's a "counterculture" today I can hardly see it. I see a million types of "sub-cultures" to give it a name but nothing like a mass generational (arguably useless) movement . 

It just emerged. It is the Alt-Right

Counter culture is a cosmetic and meaningless concept anyway. Silly discussion topic for adults to engage in. We all thought we could change the world by smoking a few joints and playing a guitar when we were 17. The only things that change the world, sadly are wars and economic depressions.

The 'people' will come together when communally facing something that equally threatens them all, otherwise people will only care about themselves, their immediate families and a handful of ideological kindreds. When the fascists, the hippies and the Islamists all face being wiped out in one job lot, they may start seeing the benefits of co-operation. If they don't then maybe they deserve to burn.

Merry Christmas!