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Because the term didn't exist or was popularized by people that are now over 60. --- counterculture (n.) also counter-culture, "way of life or collective val
by gtirloni 3y ago
Because the term didn't exist or was popularized by people that are now over 60.
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counterculture (n.)
also counter-culture, "way of life or collective values deliberately at variance with the prevailing norms of a time and place," 1968, from counter- + culture (n.).
Popularized by, and perhaps coined in, the book "The Making of a Counter Culture" by U.S. academic Theodore Roszak. As an adjective by 1972.
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Because the term didn't exist or was popularized by people that are now over 60. And because even if it was nominally a generic term, its use to describe the generic phenomenon faded with the aging of the particular youth counterculture movement it was coined for; “punk” and later movements which might fairly be described as countercultural were never as popularly labeled with the term “counterculture” as the hippies were, and now it's a term groups overtly focused on exaggerating traditional elements of mainstream culture claim as a means of clout chasing.
- parentheses 3y ago++ I'm too old to know what the current counter culture is. I think when I was young it was the emo crowd making melancholy ok (not emo so guessing).
- dragonwriter 3y ago> I'm too old to know what the current counter culture is. Its old people from the establishment culture that elevate particular countercultural movements to the status of “the counterculture” of the time.