THE CYCLES OF ANARCHIC SOCIAL REVOLUTION & THEIR EFFECT ON THE WEST
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The Sixties in the West were a time of creativity and relative affluence, especially in the USA though not exclusively. The UK also saw a rise in optimism and income with innovations across all the arts including popular music very evident. The peak of creativity and optimism spanned the years 1967 to the end of 1969. As the Seventies began a gradual darkening in atmosphere began with the previous hope and celebration diminishing rapidly. The drug culture, once relatively celebratory, generating hopes of enlightenment and progress began to darken also with positive emotions becoming steadily alloyed by abuse. The naive joys of Woodstock transmuted into the horrors of Altamont and would never be revived on such a scale ever again.
THE CYCLES OF ANARCHIC SOCIAL REVOLUTION & THEIR EFFECT ON THE WEST
THE CYCLES OF ANARCHIC SOCIAL REVOLUTION …
THE CYCLES OF ANARCHIC SOCIAL REVOLUTION & THEIR EFFECT ON THE WEST
The Sixties in the West were a time of creativity and relative affluence, especially in the USA though not exclusively. The UK also saw a rise in optimism and income with innovations across all the arts including popular music very evident. The peak of creativity and optimism spanned the years 1967 to the end of 1969. As the Seventies began a gradual darkening in atmosphere began with the previous hope and celebration diminishing rapidly. The drug culture, once relatively celebratory, generating hopes of enlightenment and progress began to darken also with positive emotions becoming steadily alloyed by abuse. The naive joys of Woodstock transmuted into the horrors of Altamont and would never be revived on such a scale ever again.