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Photo by Al Lazo
Called the founder of the love movement by some, Ken Kesey Is pictured here at the 1986 Oregon
Country Fair reciting a story.
Counterculture Con"nuetl lrom l>a?e 4
But people did choose jobs
where they felt they could con
tinue to contribute to society.
Whalen says
The counterculture didn’t
produce “stock brokers and us
ed car salesmen and high paid
executives,” he says, “they
tend to be people who are pro
fessors, writers, nurses, doc
tors. lawyers — people who
are trying to pursue some voca
tion, but typically with some
social responsibility “
People also found they could
enter government on the local
level and stay accountable to
their beliefs, Whalen says,
r
referring to Wooten and Rust
On that level, politicians can
avoid the image-conscious,
bland politics that characterize
the national arena, he says
But the counterculture peo
ple weren’t the only ones who
made accommodations.
"Someone once said in the
’60s that being a radical in
America was like trying to
punch your way out of a paper
bag," Whalen says, "that every
thrust was met not with repres
sion but rather with some form
of absorption.”
Accordingly, society at large
swallowed up many of the
movement’s values. So many.
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in fact, that some take issue
with the term “counterculture"
— in many ways, the move
ment no longer counters the
mainstream, but is part of it.
The granola once prepared
in homes and sold from bins,
Rust points out, is now mass
produced and sold in boxes.
Society has adopted the idea
that fresh vegetables are
healthy, that war is abhorrent,
and that children need nurtur
ing, he adds.
Bulk foods are available at
most any grocery store,
Schrager points out.
And being healthy has
become exceedingly popular,
Wooten says.
“People are spending hun
dreds of thousands of dollars to
work out and eat well and be
vegetarians and all that stuff the
people of the so-called
counterculture were ridiculed
for," she says.
Eugene, especially, enfolded
the counterculture.
That so many of the institu
tions established during the
counterculture’s heyday re
main strong attests to that. In
addition, it was the community
as a whole that elected Wooten
and Rust.
And, Conner adds, there are
bike paths and parks here
because the people want them
here.
But there are those who say
they never considered
themselves the counterculture
in the first place.
“I always liked Kesey’s state
ment that ‘We’re not the
counterculture, were the
culture,’ ” Rust says. “The
other guys are the counter
culture The ones who want to
have nuclear war or at least the
ones who are compelling us to
prepare for nuclear war —
eating too much red meat,
harvesting our resources faster
than they can be replenished,
consuming all the oil,
dominating Third World coun
tries, discriminating against
blacks and women (and) gays.
“Kesey turns the question
around and says ‘I’d rather
choose to be on the side of
culture and progress. And to
me, the backward elements of
our society ought to be thought
of as the counterculture.’