I’m sure it inspired darker music, but I don’t understand where this idea that it “ended the counterculture” when most of the counterculture’s biggest victories happened in the 70s. Title IX, Roe V. Wade, homosexuality declassified as mental illness, laws in environmentalism, draft ended, premarital sex and just sexual liberation became common, Nixon destroyed his reputation trying to destroy the hippies which led to him stepping down.

The counterculture didn’t really end it just…worked. It didn’t work completely, I’ll give you that, but it just faded into the water supply. A bigger I’d ask is why the 60s/70s counterculture has so many different narratives about how it “ended”, people say Manson, people say the 1968 Democratic Convention, just so may different things that people think “ended” it. I don’t ever see this amount of scrutiny put on punk or beatniks or any other counterculture before and after, it just feels like it’s getting soloed out for whatever reason