Counterculture Ideas are now Mainstream

It is amazing to me that an idea of community evolved from a paper form to what we have come to expect with today's Internet activities. My brother was not even alive when these people were in communes and make a better community for everyone, but today he is in their world on the Internet daily. Like many other Americans living on the computer in the late 90s to early 00s, my brother played video games that create worlds away from real life. These worlds featured "clans" or communities that brought Americans from every walk of life together. I have met some of his friends and they all seem to be what I will call "Internet hippies." My brother, like most of his friends, now have children that are growing up with some ideas that evolved from the counterculture. For example, the idea of hierarchy is largely not supported by members of the counterculture and today these kids largely do not believe in a hierarchy of authority. They do not see how anyone can possess authority over them, be it their parents, the police, or whomever. The problem with this is that the new generation is going to be at odds with every generation since the baby boomers - the counterculture may have had a following but it was not in the main stream. As time goes on though more and more opponents will die off and perhaps more ideas like community and denial of hierarchy will become even more main stream. It seems to me that Facebook, Twitterhttp://twitter.com/, and these video game networks will contribute even more so to this phenomena.