![]() ![]() There was a pervasive feeling that things had changed in some irrevocable manner. I was too young to participate in the Summer of Love or attend Woodstock, but when I reached my teen years not long after these events, I couldn’t imagine society going back to its earlier stodgy ways. The strange part about this is that during my coming-of-age, in the aftermath of the counterculture, I firmly believed that it had triumphed. It was an experience (to use a popular word of the era), but experiences don’t last, by definition - perhaps that’s even what makes them so special. THE COUNTERCULTURE of the 1950s and 1960s now seems like a relic of the distant past, as quaint and charming as those colorful hippie outfits and thrift store love beads, but with about as much real-world impact as an LSD trip. Like so many literary and arts organizations, our funding has been upended and we need your support now more than ever. The Los Angeles Review of Books is a reader-supported nonprofit, providing free coverage of culture, politics, and the arts. ![]() LARB IS ALWAYS OPEN - open-minded, open access, open for debate, open-ended, open to you. ![]()
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