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any books on hippie culture?

>> No.13208680

>>13208656

Houellebecq - Elementary Particles

>> No.13208691

What's with the metalhead to the right? Poor guy accidentally ended up in a hippie march.

>> No.13208693

>>13208656
>the children of WW2 vets don't understand their distant, PTSD-affected parents and decide to co-opt black cannabis/jazz culture to lash out at them, adding to their troubles
>meanwhile as part of post-WW2 Cold War era dick-waving, Russia and the USA stage a proxy war with east-asian countries reinforcing the hippie's stance that their parents are cunts
>LSD is developed by accident and early proponents describe it as like "psychic cybernetics" which nobody knows is true or not, causing research resulting in MK Ultra
>Korea and Vietnam finish up (kinda) and hippie burnouts disappear from pop-culture

>> No.13208738

>>13208693
cont

It's not a book, but check out this 4-part doco about mid-century culture starting with pre-WW1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04

>> No.13208739

>>13208656
Just listen to the beatles lmao

>> No.13208744

>>13208739
Based /mu/ crossposter

>> No.13208781

>>13208693
>Korea and Vietnam finish up (kinda)
Finish up? You lost both of those wars, yankee scum.

>> No.13208790

Gravity's Rainbow

>>13208781
lol cope

>> No.13208817

>>13208656
Thousands of them

>> No.13208822

>>13208656
>any books on hippie culture?
Yes. Tens of thousands.

>> No.13208836
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Pic related makes the case for the flower child movement being a government backed psyop to defang the anti-war movement of the day by enticing it toward mindless hedonism. It gets a bit freewheeling with its conclusions toward the end, but the the initial scene it sets with all these musicians who are the children of high ranking members of the military or state flocking to a single suburb and creating similar music with each other within a matter of weeks is compelling.

>> No.13208849

>>13208817
fuck off fake cis butterfly

>> No.13208852

>>13208656
imagine the smell in this picture

>> No.13208854

>>13208836
Oh yeah, a lot that is true. FBI were drug pushers.

>> No.13209009

when you think about it, "make love, not war" was the 60s version of "have sex"

>> No.13209044

>>13208836
Came here to post this. The creation of the hippies was an intelligence op and you're a fucking moron if you think any broad cultural shift happens by chance.

>> No.13210322

seasons of the witch

>> No.13210613

>>13208656
Dude in the army jacket and red shirt looks like Cillian Murphy.

>> No.13210832

Pynchon gives off a pretty hippy vibe

>> No.13210846

>>13209009
>We should love people instead of killing them
vs
>You are probably misogynist because you spend your time on 4chan conspiring with other men rather than having actually dated women in the real world

not really

>> No.13210853

>>13208739
Fuck off /mu/ the Beatles weren't even as good as King Crimson or the Velvet Underground but you wouldn't know that because you guys have shit taste

>> No.13210870

>>13209044
nah, you got it wrong. you're a fucking moron if you think any broad cultural shift is manufactured. you're a fucking moron if you think that spontaneous, organic cultural shit aren't subverted from the get go. this is cia 101 by the way, they didn't expand their power by producing shifts or coup or new paradigms, they act as reagents, so no matter where society is headed, they are here to REACT not to PRODUCE. You can't win everytime if you produce, whereas if you act as a reagent, you are guaranteed to leave a mark on the product of the reaction. CIA imprints.

There are no cia agents, only reagents.

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>>13208693
>>LSD is developed by accident

>> No.13210896

>>13208691
His looks like he was just looking for the bathroom

>> No.13210903

>>13210832
This, Vineland is specifically about the end of that lifestyle. Bits of Inherent Vice too.

>> No.13210904

>>13210896
His expression* how did I miss that

>> No.13211141

>>13208836
Beat me to it. Always disliked frank zappa for no reason. Now i know his dad was a mkultra researcher and his handler a spook.
Something mcgowan didn't mention in the book, but the producer of the only doors album not produced by paul rothchild, ttg, was co owned by an officer of the israeli army

>> No.13211302

>>13208691
He looks like Scarecrow from Batman Begins

>> No.13211374

>>13208656
From Counterculture to Cyberculture by Fred Turner. How Hippies were actually a vehicle for repurposed cold war deep state ideas about emerging cybernetic order, the same ideas that gave us the free maret revolution in the 80s and 90s, and sillicon valley. after the failure of the new left technology replaced politics as the vehicle for utopian yearnings.

>> No.13211442

>>13210853
Umm basically everyone on /mu/ likes the velvet underground and king crimson, they are both /mu/core. And OP was asking about books about hippie culture in which the Beatles were inexorably enmeshed. You must be new.