Abstract
The slogan “Make Love Not War”, so identified with the hippie experience and philosophy of the 1960s, has almost seemed quaint and corny for decades. Yet it should never have lost its charmingly simple appeal: the ties that bind, that hold us together, are stronger than those that tear us apart and love must transcend the hatred of the military machine.
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Anthony Ashbolt University of Wollongong [* This is the edited and updated text of a paper delivered at the conference on the Summer of Love in San Francisco 2017: Revisiting the Summer of Love, Rethinking the Counterculture, Northwestern University / California Historical Society / Medill School of Journalism, 27-9 July, 2017.]
The slogan “Make Love Not War”, so identified with the hippie experience and philosophy of the 1960s, has almost seemed quaint and corny for decades. It should never have lost its charmingly simple appeal: the ties that bind, that hold us together, are stronger than those that tear us apart and love must transcend the hatred of the military machine
Ira Chernus has reminded us in two perceptive Tomgram articles that this hippie conception of love had much in common with the agape love promoted by Martin Luther King.[1]
Summary
Anthony Ashbolt University of Wollongong [* This is the edited and updated text of a paper delivered at the conference on the Summer of Love in San Francisco 2017: Revisiting the Summer of Love, Rethinking the Counterculture, Northwestern University / California Historical Society / Medill School of Journalism, 27-9 July, 2017.]. Recommended Citation Ashbolt, Anthony, We Can Be Together: Hippie Culture as Radical Community, Counterculture Studies, 1(1), 2018, 48-63.
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