There was a professor at school who considered monks, nuns, the Amish, DIY punks, etc to be countercultural.
The hipsters of the forties+50s,the beats, the hippies, etc he saw as seekers of higher, truer things to consume, and he didn't see that as significantly different from trying to consume the appliances/cars etc that the Joneses have.
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There was a professor at school who considered monks, nuns, the Amish, DIY punks, etc to be countercultural.
The hipsters of the forties+50s,the beats, the hippies, etc he saw as seekers of higher, truer things to consume, and he didn't see that as significantly different from trying to consume the appliances/cars etc that the Joneses have.
the former are true countercultures. The latter are just subcultures. Often people use the two terms as if they were the same.