Vietnam War

[lanooshable]

Explain what the ideas/beliefs of the hippie counterculture and student posters were and explain what they disliked about conformist american society and the war in vietnam

[woofgang]

No, go and do your own homework

[janbee]

well said woofgang.

[woofgang]

Lol I know this is answerbank but a please and thank you wouldn't go amiss either

[janbee]

Once again, well said woofgang. There are several posters and they NEVER say please or thank you. I refuse to ever answer their posts and questions. By the way, good morning woofgang. Hope all well with you? xx

[factor-fiction]

Hi lanooshable. Welcome to Answerbank. This is a Q&A site and everyone here likes to help where they can but I feel assistance is more likely to be given where the questioner has tried to engage with the reader rather than just copied a homework type question. It helps if you explain:
- how the question has arisen
- which level you are studying at,
- what sort of answer you need to produce (a paragragh or dissertation),
- what research and ideas you have done already,
- what sort of help you want (e.g. links to sites, bullet point ideas, etc).
And a please/thank you also goes down well.
I don't know about other ABers but with coursework type questions I also prefer to help where the poster shows they have already given the question some thought and suggested some ideas.
Good luck

[jno]

you might also need to specify what country you're in. This is a UK site and the answers you get will be different from those if you asked on a US site.

Very short answer: hippie dislike of a consumerist and money-driven society. In America the hippies were people of draft age, so many of them faced the threat of being killed in a war in a country where they felt their country had no business to be.

You might like to remember that yesterday's hippies are today's acquisitive baby-boomers, the first generation to leave their children worse off than they were themselves.

[VHG]

Remember the USA used some terrible "weapons" in Vietnam such as Agent Orange and Napalm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm

These have caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and deformaties in Vietnam since they were used.

Strange thing is the USA complain about what happened in 9/11, where about 3,000 people were killed, but the USA have been responsible for far more deaths and deformities with what they did in Vietnam and other countries.

In fact some of the things they did in Vietnam border on chemical warfare and terrorism.

And of course sometimes you reap what you sow and it could be said 9/11 was as a result of the USA's continuous abuse of its size and military might around the world.

In fact the recent documentary shown on BBC called "Oliver Stone's Untold History of the USA" comes out strongly against the USA "Military–industrial complex".

When Eisenhower left office in 1961 he used the term Military–industrial complex to indicate he felt that some people in the USA thought it was in their interest to have a strong military industry in the USA and to initiate wars around the world to justify the building of these weapons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex

I think it was this Military–industrial complex and all that surrounds it that the hippies were complaining about.

Of course the drugs like LSD helped as well !

[FredPuli43]

"The LSD helped as well!" Yes, VHG. Hippies in San Francisco, up in Haight Ashbury (it's so long ago I'm not sure how to spell it, and I went there but I won't say why :) ) who were very much the poster people for it, were all from comfortably prosperous families. Other of their age couldn't afford the luxury of hedonism in the guise of living a simple life of apparent poverty; no, they got drafted. Peace and love were for other people , not them