re: #338 jaunte

re: Woodstock.
Thomas Frank wrote an interesting book, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism that suggest that woodstock (and the whole ‘60’s experience) was part of a blending of the tendencies of youthful revolution into an ongoing “counter-culture” consumerist attitude: rebelling by consuming.
See Whole Foods, as an example.

I’ve referred to Conquest of Cool many times here at LGF, though not recently. I have called it the Rosetta Stone of media bias, for example, since it documents the existence of a profit motive for the link between media culture and leftist politics.
Of course, there was also a genuine (small c) counterculture at the time. This article, History of the Hippie Movement, has some interesting insights, going all the way back to the Wandervogel movement in Germany in the late 19th century.