pynchon-l-digest V2 #3858

[Mike Weaver]

> >> the counterculture ... having once been a more or
> >> less unified and potent sociocultural entity and
> >> political lobby.
>
>And indeed it was. For a number of years during the 1960s.
>
>It was never a single, unified Organization, however. That was the straw man
>argument.
>
>best


Rob - there were two intersecting youth cultures in the 60'/early 70s, both 
having their reps in Vineland - one was the political -'movement'  the 
other the 'counterculture'. To put it another way, radicals and hippies.
The counterculture was only political along one fringe, being mostly more 
mystically or hedonistically minded. Plenty of rads smoked dope, plenty of 
hippies took part in demos, but they weren't the same sociocultural entity, 
and were more or less allied but never unified.
You're setting yourself up for another malignant lashing...


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