Post on 24-Aug-2020
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Hippie Movement
Rise of the Counterculture
• Beat movement of the 1950’s
• Freedom from materialism
Counterculture
• Questioning the world around you
• Not giving into traditional values
Counterculture
• Peace and love
• Social experiment
Counterculture
• Experimented
• Drugs
• Relationships
• Music
Counterculture
• Generation
• Lack of communication between generations
• Different view of the world
Music
• Expression
• Questioning the government
• Protest songs
Counterculture
• Sexual Revolution-
• Making decisions about your own body
• Open discussion
Counterculture
• Communes-
• Challenged traditional living
• Group living together- sharing of resources
Haight-Ashbury
• Neighborhood in San Francisco
• Hippies move to this area in 1967
• Height of the counterculture
Drugs
• Timothy Leary-
• “Tune in, turn on” to drugs
• Drugs freed the mind
Religion/ Spirituality
• Enlightenment
• Late 60’s/ early 70’s live with nature
Decline
• By the end of the 60’s
• Utopia- unrealistic
• Went back into the mainstream