Sixties counterculture: everything you wanted to know
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Is the Counterculture Coming to an End?
1968 had shown the limits of where the counterculture and the wider movement beyond that, the limits of how far it was going to get. Young people are still in a minority. And 1968 saw an older majority decide to reject this world. The Prague spring that you mentioned earlier, that is crushed. There is in Britain, we have probably the biggest political event in mainstream politics. Is Enoch Powell making his rivers of blood speech, which attracts a huge amount of support from the public? In America, Bobby Kennedy is murdered in America, who is the great liberal hope. And Richard Nixon, the most right wing president since the war has been elected as president. So it's already, it
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