"Meh, the counter-culture petered out for a reason." If you read about the history of the 60's counterculture, you'll see that there was a massive political, p

"Meh, the counter-culture petered out for a reason." If you read about the history of the 60's counterculture, you'll see that there was a massive political, physical, economic, and social backlash against it from the dominant culture. Kind of hard to keep participating in the countculture when the whole rest of society is hell-bent on eliminating "those dirty hippies", putting you in jail, and making illegal the drugs that aided consciousness expansion and questioning the status quo. Not to mention the huge incentives for conforming and working on Wall St or in Silicon Valley vs giving up your posessions, dropping out, living in a commune, and refusing to participate in the dominant culture. Also, it takes quite a lot of dedication, patience, and perseverence to stay part of the counterculture for extended periods of time. There are consequences to all of this and prices to pay quite apart from whether you achieve wisdom from psychedelic trips (which, sadly, most aren't even interested in).