HREQ 2020 Lecture Notes - Jimi Hendrix, Nations Of Nineteen Eighty-Four, Cutting Class
18 Apr 2013
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Today is about social reactions and social movements over time. Need a lot of work and coordination for social movements to work. Kennedy and martin luther king (we became a generation of might have beens after both died) War, racial equality and counter culture, nation rebelled and lost its innocence. World was going to change and white men would not control everything. Civil rights act: eliminate injustice and declare war on poverty. President johnson had the power to wage war in south east asia. Americans accepted the war as a struggle with communism at first. Martin luther king said that his government promoted violence and that he was ashamed. Reinvent your own world and freedoms to experience new ways of living. These new forms would have to be supported to maintain in society. Competition and conformity, sexual freedom (birth control pill), music and drugs changed the world: political movement 2) conscious movement. Experimenting with drugs and relationships and music.
