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Your college does not dictate your eventual status as a "square" or counterculture icon. Timothy Leary, whom Nixon described as the most dangerous man in Americ
by tyrmored 14y ago
Your college does not dictate your eventual status as a "square" or counterculture icon. Timothy Leary, whom Nixon described as the most dangerous man in America due to his immense countercultural influence, was a Harvard lecturer. Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) was accepted there at age 16 for his undergraduate degree, later became an assistant professor at Berkeley, and has inspired a whole generation of ecoterrorists and neo-luddites. And what about all the free software/open source advocates that came out of buttoned-down tech schools like MIT, including Richard Stallman?
- yoasif_ 14y agoYep. But all those guys were clearly counter culture figures: drugs, terrorism, open source (that last one is so different and hard to categorize that I just called it what we know it as). Zuckerberg? Where's his support of Occupy Wall Street, or the Tea Party, or even marijuana legalization? Facebook doesn't even allow pictures of breastfeeding mothers! http://abcnews.go.com/Health/breastfeeding-advocates-hold-facebook-protest/story?id=15530012#.T4gP7qVetfw http://abcnews.go.com/Health/breastfeeding-advocates-hold-fa... I know that you were providing examples where the college someone went to doesn't preclude them from being counter cultural. Zuckerberg, though, while not "square" exactly, is basically what our culture basically expects of people that go to those schools. Leary and Kaczynski, not so much, and that may actually be a part of the reason that that they grew to have outsize influence as counter cultural icons!