07. Socialist America - The Suburbs
Korea and after. . . The War to end all wars was quickly followed by . . . Another War. This is a story that follows the progress of Western culture and art that developed at the end of World War 2. It follows a thread that seems to have a life of its own. I began to write about the Beat Generation as a precursor to the Hippy Movement. But I realized I needed to go back in time to the generation that was born at the end of the War. This generation called "Baby Boomers" is the group of children that grew up into the Hippies of the sixties. Apart from being a fascinating era in history it acts like a link to the world we live in today. I wanted to add to the writings of Robert Hughes who spoke of this in his ground breaking TV series "The Stock of the New" in which he stated the Hippies were by and large a continuation of the aims and ideals of the Dada movement. So because we can, I want to use this blog to create a backdrop to the future development of ...