What PODs could prevent the social/cultural upheaval of the late 1960s?

We all know how the social/cultural upheaval of the late 1960s has shaped politics ever since. What PODs prevent that social/cultural upheaval from occuring? What butterflies would result?
 

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You'd have to avoid WW2. The Baby Boom and disruptions of the war, social, economic, everything really, caused the major changes of the 1960s as the children of the WW2 generation or least those born during the war were reaching their teenage/twenties and driving a cultural backlash against the culture of their parents. Part of it was inevitable, but the WW2 generation returning home and trying to seek normality and creating a stuffy culture of rigidly enforced norms created an outspoken youth culture. Part of it too was a lot more kids going to college than ever before, unheard of prosperity (the go-go '60s), the Cold War and Vietnam, demands for racial justice breaking out into the open thanks to media allowing people to see the realities of the Jim Crow South, as well as the WW2 generation's experiences of what White Supremacy and Racism meant in Europe spreading to the next generations in their formative years and taking to heart.

Without WW2 culture doesn't get revolutionary, it remains more evolutionary due to society staying intact during the 1930s-40s and on as well no Cold War. There aren't the same dramatic actions and reactions that reverberate, while without the shock of the Baby Boom the youth of the 1960s-70s aren't such an overwhelming part of the population relative to everyone else. Demographically the Baby Boom generation was a giant distortion to country and gave the youth an outsized voice just as media was becoming modern and prosperity meant TV was widespread and youth culture could be commodified in a way it had never been before. Then add in the Vietnam war and the clash of generations and cultures that resulted, with the large youth population getting organized and radicalized by the fear of having to go fight and die in a horribly foreign war that could be seen in all its gore on the nightly news and it was a perfect storm of events that produced an explosion in the 1960s-70s.
 
Vietnam was a big deal. Unlike previous wars where almost everybody you knew got drafted, in Vietnam you were slightly unlucky to be drafted.
 
Change has to come. However, what made it as visceral and militant and the rest as it was is the JFK assassination, the escalation of Vietnam, the deaths of 1968, and the Nixon election. That worsened everything at each step. Without Vietnam, there will be counterculture and related backlash but you are looking at more Flower Power than "by any means necessary". Without Nixon, you would have things only as bad as 1968. That is still bad but not as bad as it became. Nixon purposefully divided an already divided country and we still live with the rot.
 
Delay the introduction of popular radio and television or severely censor electronic media.
Every generation wants its own genre of "angry young man music."

The Roaring Twenties listened to Jazz music while they danced the Charlestown. Jazz music incorporated African poly-rugby if melodies imported from Africa by slaves. Jazz riffs were often invented-on-stage vs. stagnant melodies written years ago.

Depression era folk singers like Woody Guthrie and UUtah Phillips wrote songs about poverty and about the advantages of labour unions.

The 1940s had big band, swing music (a white variation on negro Jazz). LP record sales made this music available to much wider audiences.

During the 1950s, white rock-a-hilly musicians (Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, the Big Bopper, etc.) spread blues music rooted in slave work songs and Southern Baptist gospel music to much wider audiences via high-powered radio stations broadcasting from Nashville, Boston, etc. Electric guitars helped them entertain larger audiences.

During the 1960s, TV broadcast "the British Invasion" to even wider teenaged audiences. The British Invasion was merely British boy bands (Beatles, Joe Cocker, Long John Baldry, etc.) re-introducing North American audiences to negro blues and jazz. British musicians hopped across the Atlantic in new-fangled jet airliners.
The 1960s also heard a revival of 1930s-vintage folk-singers singing protest songs. Giant music festivals (e.g. Woodstock) helped create a new hippy culture that rejected WW2 values. Massive amplifiers and speakers helped music festivals attract thousands of fans.

During the 1970s disco music offered a new urban chic melody to over-sexed teenagers. Semi-automated Electronic synthesizers laid down dance beats. Since electronic synthesizers were a fraction of the weight and bulk (of the pipe organs they sounded like) bands were able to play a different venue every night.

British punk music emerged in the 1980s as an angry, minimalist alternative to over-produced disco music.

All those electronic advances allowed new genres to reach larger audiences and ingrain their distinctive "sound" on different generations. The only way to prevent "angry young man music" from proliferating was tighter censorship.

WI Senator McCarthy had censored popular music ...... Instead of communists .....?
 
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Vietnam was a big deal. Unlike previous wars where almost everybody you knew got drafted, in Vietnam you were slightly unlucky to be drafted.

That wouldn't stop the counterculture. It would reduce it (maybe it would attack nuclear profile ration) but eventually a reaction to the social conservatism of the era would occur.
 
Things change. Fashions evolve. The social issues of the era were already pressing toward the counter culture. The things you could hear 1,000 hippies say in 1967, you could hear 100 hipsters say in 1958.
 
We all know how the social/cultural upheaval of the late 1960s has shaped politics ever since. What PODs prevent that social/cultural upheaval from occuring? What butterflies would result?

Are you familiar with generational modelling? The work of Strauss and Howe?

Basically, the eruptions of the time had to happen in some form. You can moderate them to some degree, maybe squelch Vietnam and keep JFK alive. But the Pill, and Betty Friedan, are still going to set off the Sexual Revolution, the struggle of African-Americans will still come to a head, a generation of young people growing up in relative peace will still not be satisfied with recognition of adulthood given to them on their parents' schedule.
 
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