The ultimate question ...

Something I will be dealing with in the years to come: Can a counterculture ever create a movement that rejects all of the banal and reactionary elements which seem to be part and parcel of our current political and social makeup? Or, as Heath and Potter state in Nation of Rebels will it do so only at the expense of the gains that progressive politics have made via the current political system? Is the counterculture destined to always be adopted and exploited by consumer culture and thus rendered impotent?