![]() ![]() ![]() The Hare Krishnas rejected materialism and lived communally. ![]() That same year, Timothy Leary, a Harvard professor, published The Psychedelic Reader, in which he wrote that he had experimented with drugs and advised readers to “turn on, tune in, and drop out.” In 1966, the International Society for the Krishna Consciousness, which was founded in India in 1958, was brought to the United States and Canada. This term was used to describe a strategy of friendly cooperation in confronting what the flower children considered the injustices of the day. A popular slogan of the counterculture was “Make love, not war.” It was in 1965 that American poet Allen Ginsberg introduced the term “flower power” at an antiwar protest in Berkeley, California. They also protested America’s involvement in Vietnam, emphasized spirituality, particularly Asian mysticism, called for a sexual revolution, and advocated the use of psychedelic drugs to expand one’s consciousness. Believing that it was possible to build a society based on love, happiness, peace, and freedom, the counterculture rejected materialism and traditional middle-class values. A movement that developed largely as a reaction against the war, the counterculture was made up of young people who called themselves hippies or flower children. The late mid to late 1960s also saw the rise of the “counterculture” in America. A year later, on May 4,1970, four students were killed at Kent State University in Ohio by National Guardsmen during a war protest. Many young people protested the war, and these demonstrations reached their peak in 1969, when 250,000 people marched in Washington D.C. America’s involvement in the Vietnam War, particularly from 1964 to 1973, caused much domestic unrest. The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of enormous political, social, and cultural upheaval in the United States, and most likely the events of this period influenced Le Guin’s writing of the story. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas was first published in 1973 in New Directions 3. ![]()
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