"The hippie movement... is a red warning light for the American way of life... They have dropped out of a society that they feel is obsessed with material success, technological efficiency, and cold war geopolitics. In place of the traditional Protestant work ethic, they offer a philosophy of leisure, immediate gratification, and communal sharing. While mainstream critics view this as a dangerous retreat from civic responsibility, the youth themselves see it as a moral rejection of a society that napalms Vietnamese villages while ignoring poverty at home."
—Adapted from a contemporary sociological analysis of the counterculture, 1968
Based on the passage, which of the following best describes the fundamental tension between the counterculture and mainstream American society in the late 1960s?
- AA unified consensus among youth and civil rights organizations that nonviolent demonstration was the sole effective strategy to achieve political objectives.
- BA dispute over whether the military draft should be used for domestic defense rather than applying the containment doctrine to European allies.
- The rejection by youth of post-World War II consensus values of materialism and conformity in favor of personal liberation and anti-war activism.Answer
- DA protest by young activists against Great Society programs like Medicare, which they criticized for replicating the centralized planning of the 1930s New Deal.