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I've been planning out an alternate counterculture, one that goes far to the right (like a lot of modern countercultures seem to do). I'm calling them Libbies, right now (from Libertine)

It includes, as basic, underlying tenets:

An aestheticization of violence
An exaltation of the modern and the future, with the automobile as a major symbol, both social and technological
A love for individualism, and a dislike for supposed "communal" forms of life
A dislike for agriculturalism and a love for the cities

(Some of these run counter to "hippie" ideals, but some are ones that I can see cropping up considering the roots of the counterculture)

1. Considering the youth gangs of the 50s and 60s, and the general love of the rumble, I basically want more of that to be thrown into the ethos of the counterculture. Expect a lot more violence from these unwashed masses........ Of course, if feminists are to be believed, this might end up being more macho-istic (or is it machismistic or machimic?)

2.This is not all that hard. The youth were enthralled with their cars, and with new inventions that proved to be revolutionary (the microwave, the television, the space program later and more....) it isn't hard to exalt the modern. And if we emphasize the future, we can do what the hippies and otehr like-minded movements did- ignore the problems of teh present, and offer something new. This movement will especially call attention to the freedom an automobile grants, and could fall in with the ideas of a mobile society that were popping up.

3. A love for individualism was always there in the hippie movement. Throw in a dislike for communism and the establishment (with its own suppression of the individual and communal systems) and basically just make the Soviet Union less liked. No communes, and with the future outlook, no back to the land stuff.

4. With the love for the future, the mobile and the free, going back to the land is simply unappealing.

How plausible do you think this is? I have no POD, cause that is well, impossible to pin down, and want to know what people think the likelihood of Libbies are.
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