The counterculture is often remembered as a purple haze of sex, drugs, and rock  and roll. Visions of back-to-nature, neo-Luddite communes complete wi

"Machines of Loving Grace": Alternative Technology, Environment, and the Counterculture

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2021-05-24 09:00:06

The counterculture is often remembered as a purple haze of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Visions of back-to-nature, neo-Luddite communes complete with bearded wilderness advocates and naked children draped in flowers living off edible plants easily spring to mind. Many counterculturists did in fact reject the modern world of large-scale technological systems in favor of a simpler, more primitive, and environmentally-conscious lifestyle. Faced with the grim reality of mechanized death in Vietnam, rivers so polluted they caught fire, smog alerts that sent children and the elderly running for cover, the omnipresent threat of nuclear annihilation, and the cold dehumanization of the labor force by industry, many understandably technophobic younger Americans rejected industrial society outright and began experimenting with alternative lifestyles and communities that de-emphasized reliance on modern technology.

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