Last weekend marked the fiftieth anniversary of the music festival Woodstock. Held between 15th and 18th August 1969, the event has been heralded as one of the landmarks of the alleged former counterculture, now the prevalent cultural hegemony. It was billed as "An Aquarian Exposition" and "3 Days of Peace & Music", and was descended upon by around 400,000 impressionable baby boomers hungry for hedonism. The Aquarian reference is important, because it gives away the underlying ideology of "the Age of Aquarius" behind the event purported as innocuous at the time. Indeed, on this fiddieth anniversary of Woodstock, the media have not stopped crowing about how the event shaped hearts and minds and helped change society.
