epic library friday.

im posting a rough draft to my paper on here because last time i started a big history paper in the library i made the typical flash drive mistake and lose my haight ashbury paper for dr. leonard.... not cool....

also today i have focused on my paper like never before. i dont know what it is or if its some new form of maturity (positive doubt) but it feels great. im about go grab a beer from cambrige 1 and a flatbread pizza. then maybe some cityside to say hello to northboro and then back to my apt to keep truckin.


if you still care about my musical opinion check out the new arctic monkeys album (who i see on sunday with lauren) and/ or the kid cudi pursuit of happyness remix by steve aoki. do it.

(fresh prince of bel air techno remix is also fantastic too if your willing to take a chance)






While looking at American history in the 1960’s one of the most unique aspects is the rise in the counterculture and the effect of radical politics on American policy and domestic affairs. After surviving the 50’s and the swelling threat of McCarthyism, the youth of America rallied unlike ever before. While it is often easy to throw the hippies and new left into a category that often gets shortchanged and left immortalized by stereotypes, in fact the counterculture was a movement that genuinely believed in the American democracy and the basis of social change. Through the constant headlines from leaders like Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Eldridge Cleaver and many more, a culture was able to survive and flourish on the coattails of American society. While media and mass market were screaming about consumerism and violence a core of our society was focused on reevaluating the social norms of the 1950’s. They saw what there parents generation had to offer and decided that change was in their hands. With success in the American South as their kindling they were able to start a fire of which embers still burn to this day. With so much support it is all the more startling that they received so much negative press and were presented so poorly to the American people. Rather than seeing a vessel of change and optimism the focus was often construed and twisted to a media driven purpose shared by the national government. At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968, the riots that occurred highlight this issue. They go to show how the activities of the radicals were massively unpopular with the government and the lengths by which they would go to control these protests. While the government aimed at quelling the radicals middle America began to get comfortable in their position, influencing the mood of government and the course of legislation to their benefit with little actual effort.


(i deleted the rest. thats just the rough draft of the thesis. if you so desire id love to let you read the rest of it though)


(dont bother clikcing on these links they are resources for me to keep using...)

http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~kak7409/groovy60s.html trues and false
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/film/middle.htm time people of the year middle usa
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/students.htm