What exactly is "the counterculture?"

In the 1950’s anti-establishment teenagers were carefully guided toward thrill crime and mindless violence. There was little hint of spiritual enlightenment or political consciousness. Notice rock’n’roll was bolted into this meme from the beginning, so rockers and delinquents were virtually indistinguishable? This was not an accident.

But did you ever consider how useful this meme was to the powers-that-be? By sheep-dipping anti-establishment teens as violent and dangerous, it made them so much easier to control, and encouraged mindless confrontations with police, a battle teens can never win. In truth, white teenagers were falling in love with black culture through the radio and shaking off some of the programming in the process and threatening to break down some establishment barriers.

In the same way, I’ve always wondered about the radical groups from the 1960s that encouraged violence and terror as legitimate, especially the Red Army faction from Germany, the Baader-Meinhof crew and the Weather Underground.

Personally, I never bought into Marxism, Communism, or any other ism, so when I see a logo with a red star and a machine gun, it doesn’t provoke my empathy. In fact, I’d view this sort of sigil as a secret emanation of a security service. Manufacturing violence is how the system works.

Whenever you see violence projected as a legitimate lifestyle, consider the possibility you’re down a rabbit hole, deep in some intelligence operation, lost in the wilderness of mirrors sheltering the sorcerers of death.

My favorite German radical from the sixties is Bommi Baumann, who turned away from violence after realizing he’d been programmed into accepting it since birth in the slums of Eastern Berlin.
Bommi wrote a book translated in English as “Terror or Love?” and in the summer of 1981 Des McEnuff staged an incredible version at the Public Theater in Manhattan. I wonder if Des will ever bring that production back? He’s a famous Broadway director of musicals now, and this was actually his first major New York show, but it was brilliant.

Which brings me back to the point of this blog: the mainstream current sucks people into violence, while the counterculture swims upstream against violence. All the elements of the counterculture were assembled in Congo Square in New Orleans, where a merger of all cultures occurred, one that held improvisational ceremonies. Since all cultures were invited, this culture was free of bigotry by design. This culture brought about integration. They were the activists of change. And this culture made reefer popular. And it continues to evolve today because it is improvisational in nature. And this culture has long been in conflict with the powers-that-be, who prefer to isolate people in groups to make them more vulnerable. Recreational drug habits of a forbidden culture quickly become persecution campaigns. The crime of the jazz heads was not they were smoking weed but they were mixing races. Reefer was just the easiest method of persecution, especially since its odor is so pervasive and distinctive.

So being “counterculture” has nothing to do with your haircut, the amount of cannabis you consume, what religion you follow, what clothes you wear, or what concerts you attend. It simply means you reject violence as the option of first resort and prefer to follow the path of peace. Wars are orchestrated for profit and both sides can be funded by the same banks. This is the greatest hoodwink of the ages, and the assassination of JFK and the events of 9/11 are but small peep-holes into this deeper reality.

One Reply to “What exactly is "the counterculture?"”

  1. Howdy,
    Yes, when my retired CIA father told me in 1969 that “they” were out to opiate my whole generation, I didn’t understand. The boomers were not supposed to come together as a generation. We were supposed to be a “peaced out/drugged out generation. In the 1860, another generation didn’t come together, because of assassination war and opium. That made us as a people more susceptible to the machinations from the shadows. And then we got war, fake money, onerous taxation, huge public debt. etc. ( all control mechanisms)
    “They” had a target date of 1950 to have in place TV, the modern education system and a nascent drug culture. But the cycle of generations (Great book called: Generations: A History of America’s Future) has lots of moving parts and we stepped aside and created a counter culture that went differently than planned. Most of us didn’t take the opium, but created a “counter-culture” around marijuana and we as a generation coalesced as hippies, smoking a joint around a circle. Out of the hippies came the personal computer and the Internet. Those are the tools we as a society are using to expose, fight and root out the corruption of our social, economic and political arenas.
    MHO,
    Aloha, He’Ping,
    Om, Shalom, Salaam.
    Em Hotep, Peace Be,
    All My Relations.
    Omnia Bona Bonis,
    Adieu, Adios, Aloha.
    Amen.
    Roads End
    Peace,
    Kris Millegan

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