Ask the Brain The World's First Computer-Generated Encyclopedia Computer Generated Encyclopaedia

 Ask the Brain! :)
Ok "Brain", what's the deal with ?
 
   In the News - 7 Jan: Barry Bonds  Mitt Romney  Rupert Murdoch  Santa Claus  Pearl Harbor  
 
 
 

Topic: Counter Culture

Related:
  Culture    Counter  
  American culture    Different cultures  
  Society and Culture    World Cultures  
  Indian culture    Culture Group  
  Kitchen Counter    Popular Culture  
  Corporate Culture    Page Counter  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Yoko Ono,  Che Guevara
Personality:Nostalgic
Politics:Gay activism,  Feminist,  Religious right
Religion(s):Christian - Evangelical
Favorite artist(s):Andy Warhol
Favorite era(s):1960s,  1970s,  1950s
Favorite great thinker(s):Timothy Leary
Likes to wear:Sixties
Listens to:Punk,  Rock and Roll,  Bob Dylan
Favorite quote(s):"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be."
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Reflecting the counter culture's interest in communal living arrangements as well as the model of the ashrams and monasteries being established by the new Asian spiritual groups, many early Movement participants felt that MSIA should establish a spiritual household.
Open Tent seeks to counter negative stereotyping and encourages the development of constructive relationships among the many cultures and religious communities with ties to the Middle East.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

The 1960s counter culture saw the emergence of the New Age religions and practices in the USA, which quickly spread to Britain and which are so prevalent in Europe today.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Unfortunately, although these early alpha training experiments were instructive, they were associated with 1960s counter culture movements, and consequently, did not gain much scientific credibility with the traditional medical community.
Mark Harris,
Priest

Our culture teaches us that incompatibility and conflict are grounds for ending a relationship, but this idea counters nature's intention.
Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

They are the five to eight million counter-culture revolutionaries who took over by force the university campuses in their young adulthood in the mid-1960s, dodged the draft, demonstrated against the Vietnam War, set the stage for major societal disfunction by their appeals to sexual liberation of women, and organized the alien concept of 'welfare rights.
Selection was based on documenting the social conditions particular to the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially the counter-culture and anti-war demonstrations of the period.
Bill Ayers is a member of and, now, the 'hero' of the eight million or so elites of the Boomer generation who carried out a counter-culture revolution on our nations campuses during the mid-1960s and 1970s.
Sveta Romanova,
Intelligence Officer

The counter-culture of the 1960's began to claim the dominant world view in the 1980's and the decade became known as the “Me” generation and “I” became the center of the universe.
Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator

The counter-culture of the 1960's had a revolutionary effect on Sennett who would conclude that the chaos of true social disorder would offer the course of least resistance as a means to return individuals back to viable areas of social interaction, where the immediate emancipation of a modern society of formerly adolescent individuals would depend upon attaining "the freedom to accept and to live in disorder represents the goal which this generation has aimed for, vaguely and inchoately, in its search for 'community.
Tony Howell,
Skateboarder

Chances are, if you've paid even the slightest attention to the lifestyles and counter cultures of the post Acid house youth , if you've been awake and up for dancing in the last ten years, this man will have touched your life somehow.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

Indeed, America has produced and still harbors terrorists of an earlier age, the counter-culture revolutionaries of the mid-1960s and 1970s, who attacked the same type of targets - and they are still at large in America.
 
 
 User Talk
Comments from our users:
Got a question? Got an answer? Let's hear it!

Name:


Protection code:

 
 
 Pass this on!
Now you know all about Counter Culture, you gonna keep it to yourself?

Your Name:
Friend's Email1: eg. friend1@hotmail.com
Friend's Email2: (optional)
Friend's Email3: (optional)
Friend's Email4: (optional)
Friend's Email5: (optional)
 
 
Contact Us | What is AskTheBrain? | Terms and Conditions
Feel free to link to this page.

This is a satirical computer-generated website. By using this site, you agree to abide by our terms and conditions.
Copyright Rapid Intelligence 2003. All Rights Reserved.