To: koan who wrote (192033 ) 6/18/2012 11:16:10 PM From: JohnM Read Replies (1) | Respond to I don't need to read anything. I was part of it. I lived it. So did rat. The power and glory of this movement was in California, and specifically UC Berkeley and San Francisco, not Texas. Why Raygun tried to destroy Berkeley university. That may be Texas's experience, but it has little to do with the reality of the movement in its true form. Good for you and I don't doubt that's true. Nor am I denying it. Just two counter points, however. Your California experience was no more the "true form" than my Texas experience. There were many, many elements. I've never read the various histories of the sixties with any degree of seriousness but I'm told there are several that are quite good. This conversation leads me to think I should take a look again.You need to try and open your mind to what I am trying to explain you. If you want to read about counter culture you need to read Thomas Wolfs "The electric cool aid acid test, or watch some Daria cartoons, or read a history of Eric Nord and the North Beach Beatniks. Counter culture is, of course, a different topic from existentialism. I've read Tom Wolf's book and liked it. But the national counter culture movement was really quite varied if we are going to include the civil rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam war under that label. As I said in a previous post, C. Wright Mills' work was important. Lots of folk were reading their Marx quite seriously, particularly interpretations pulled through his period as a young Hegelian in the 1840s and as a political pundit.
