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EARLY REVOLUTION

The small but important pre-requisetes that led up to what we now know as the hippie movement.

1. The word "hippie" comes from the word "hipster" which was first coined by Harry Gisbon in 1940 in a song titled "harry the Hipster" (which he reffered himself to).

In the song, hipsters were beatniks who moved to Greenwich Village in NYC. Beatniks were followers of the Beat Generation literary movement who through their writing, promoted anti-conformist attitudes and ideals.

2. The "Beat Generation" was introduced to the United states in the 1950's. The word "beat" came from "tired" or "beaten down", which is how the Beat Generation basically described their era.

Follwers became known as "beatniks"- a combonation of "Beat Generation" and when the Russian satellite Sputnik was launched because it was "far out of mainstream society" (litkicks.com).

3. Cofounder of the Cabale Cremery in Berkley, Chandler A. Laughlin II, was influenced by the Beat generation and their culture.

In 1963, he followed their lead and established a tight family-like identity between 50 people in Berkley.

Laughlin also recruited many of the early psychedelic musical talent acts such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and The Charlatans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)

4. LSD manufacturer Owen Stanley (left), also lived in Berkley, and provided much of the LSD to the hippie scene at the same time.

Stanley converted his amphetamines lab into a LSD lab and beame one of the first millionare drug dealers in the US.

His LSD product became a part of the "Red Dog Experience", the early revolution of psychedelic rock and the emerging hippie culture.

*Stanley with Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead ---> (nytimes.com).

5. Hippies were not satisfied with the consenseous culture that developed after the second world war and wanted to distance theselves from American Society- hence the term, counter-culture.

As a result, memebers of the counter-culture attempted to establish their own towns, economy, political institutions and societal values.

6. The counter-culture wanted a more peaceful and tolerant world with equal rights for all and the elimination of war.

Their goals were to end the war in Vietnam, spread the use of psychedlic drugs, achieve equal civil and social rights for all and question the material system their parents had raised them in.