The Struggle Of Young People During The Vietnam War

Because of the Vietnam War, many young people had a feeling of an uncertainty of their future. In the 1960s and 1970s young people were seeking a better path; rejecting middle class values, nuclear weapons and the Vietnam War. They embraced an utopian society, eastern philosophy and sought to find new meaning in life. Young people in the late 1960s and 1970s created their own culture founded on psychedelic rock and the embracement of the sexual revolution. Drugs such as marijuana and LSD were tightly integrated into their culture as a means to explore altered states of consciousness. Both drugs and the conflict of the Vietnam War influenced rock music. The war the uncertainty and fear, Los Angeles Style of rock n roll; drugs that feeling of