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What does it mean to counter the culture? Our friends at Wikipedia tell us that “it is a sociological word used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day,[1] the cultural equivalent of political opposition.”
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive? (Irv Kupcinet)
Our well-trained American minds immediately think of hippies smoking weed in the back of the VW, war protesters burning American flags… unproductive actions like that.
But what is culture? “All the values shared by a society” is the key phrase here. Our culture consists of those societal structures, traditions, and values which we accept as normal (thus, right) simply because they are. Everyone around us accepts them; they are familiar and comfortable. We do not question their rightness. continue reading…