Underground newspapers proliferated, broadcasting the latest progress reports: the sit-ins, the love-ins, the be-ins, the antiwar and civil rights demonstrations, the Democratic National Convention of 1968, the Chicago Seven Trial, Woodstock, etc. Every day there was a new victory for change.
Or so we thought.Īt the time it appeared that massive cultural changes were about to sweep away the capitalist system (or the “military-industrial-complex” as we used to call it). Peace would reign supreme and all peoples of the world would unite and be free from the chains of oppression. “The establishment” was doomed and soon to be replaced with a kinder, gentler society.
Art, music, poetry, philosophy, ecology and human rights were just a few of the buzzwords floating around the collective psyche of the Sixties generation. I never tire of reading and re-reading his posts.įor many of us who came of age in the Sixties and Seventies, the counterculture and its promise of an alternative society based on love and peace was an important part of our lives. This is an older Editorial by my good friend Padmpani Prabhu over at Prabhupada Connection.
