In the 1998 movie whose title includes his surname, old stoner Jeff Lebowski reveals that he was there at the beginning of what would become American Sixties counterculture. “I was one of the authors of the Port Huron Statement,” he says. “The original Port Huron Statement, not the compromised second draft.” That places him, in ...
What may seems like a harmless “phase” your child is passing through on their way to adulthood, could really be a way of life they are choosing for themselves – one that can be both dangerous and destructive. In this article, you will learn the meaning of the term “emo,” where the subculture came from, ...
There’s an adage that goes, “If you can remember the 60s, you weren’t really there,” a sly observation to the decade’s rampant drug use. But this was really just one aspect of the times. Perhaps no other decade of the 20th century was as tumultuous, and as difficult to define by a small handful of ...
The beautiful young woman who jumped out of her sixth-floor apartment window at 9 am on October 4, 1969 had no way of knowing that her death was destined to become a focal point of the anti-drug movement in America. Diane Linkletter was the 20-year-old daughter of Art Linkletter, the prominent radio and TV personality. ...
The roots of the monumental counter-culture movement extend back as far as 1963, when President Kennedy’s assassination first began to alienate American youth from the government. After Kennedy was murdered, the ideas of conspiracy and government cover-ups gripped America. As mentioned before, the media had a great deal of power during this time, partially because ...
As the Great Depression dissipated into the post-World World War II boom, the dawn of the 1960s signaled the arrival of radical social, political, and cultural change in the United States. While the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam War, and emergence of the counterculture highlighted the political controversy surrounding the nation at the time, a cultural ...
