“We left the cities and the colleges not to destroy, but to rebuild our lives on a human scale. The competitive drive for material abundance, the obsession with careers in the corporate hierarchy, and the reliance on technological solutions for spiritual emptiness have alienated our generation from the natural world and from each other. In our communes, we seek to cultivate cooperative labor, shared resources, and a consciousness freed from the rigid discipline of the post-war corporate state.”
— Excerpt from a commune newsletter, *The New Earth*, 1969
The lifestyle described in the passage was most directly a reaction against which of the following aspects of post-World War II American society?
- The emphasis on consumerism and conformity that characterized the post-war consensusCevap
- BThe mobilization of the 'silent majority' to defend traditional social values and restore law and order
- CThe intellectual disillusionment of the 1920s Lost Generation with post-World War I isolationism
- DThe legislative expansion of the welfare state through New Deal-style federal programs
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The emphasis on consumerism and conformity that characterized the post-war consensus
The correct option is correct because the 1960s counterculture, particularly the commune movement, rejected the consumerism, materialism, and social conformity that defined the post-war consensus of the 1950s and 1960s. The passage explicitly criticizes the pursuit of material abundance and corporate careers in favor of alternative lifestyles.
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Counterculture and Youth Rebellion