"If “underground” still carries a faint renegade and utopian charge, it’s because the concept comes from the late 1960s and originally referred not just to long hair and trippy bands but also to the counterculture, the free press, and at the extreme end of the spectrum, guerrilla outfits like the Weather Underground and Angry Brigade who actually blew stuff up."
I love Simon Reynolds. In this article he discusses the proliferation and simultaneous demise of the counter-culture in the wake of a generation of uber connected youth.
