Merry Pranksters
They didn’t change America — they staged a perceptual intervention and called it a revolution.
The sixties
The decade everything is still dated from, accurately or not.
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Counterculture
Counterculture isn’t rebellion—it’s a sociological category defined by structural conflict, not attitude.
Hippie
Hippie wasn’t a worldview—it was a demographic accident dressed up as revolution.
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