The Squelchistani Crank

In the previous blog post I put together, it was in regards to the original Sage caste source the Counterculture adhered to when they started forming. That was the Beat Society, aka the Beat Generation. Or rather, the literature it produced and the logic behind it. And then they warped it by turning some of the survival mechanisms the Beat Society used upside-down and adding an element of Marxism to it. For those who may be lost to what I’m talking about, one can refer to the three links below: Part 1 – Counterculture Territories Part 2 – Why The Counterculture Came To Be Part 3 – The Beat Society Connection I remarked in the last blog post of this series on how much the Counterculture during its early days was eerily similar to each other in the sub-cultural territories; someone from the West Coast would feel just as socially at home as on the upper East Coast, as well as in the Great Lakes region, and vice versa (at least on an ideological basis). But there was one area t...

In the last post regarding the Impossible Divide, I talked about how the Counterculture came into existence back in the mid 1960s, the typically agreed upon time when the ideology willed itself into being both in the sub-cultural territories of Cascadia and Vespuccia. As a recap, one can view links from the previous two entries… Part 1 – Counterculture Territories Part 2 – Why The Counterculture Came To Be In regards to Part 2, I left off where the Counterculture got its original influences from. Most Squelchistanis can figure it out without too much thought if they remember their history classes from high school. But given how many Squelchistanis tend to be clueless about their nation’s history and in a responsible fashion to boot, I may as well spell it out for everybody reading this blog post. The key influence the Counterculture based their ideology from originally was the Beat Society. Or more specifically, the literature it produced and the logic behind it. But in order t...