Allow me, Mr. Hamilton, to attempt to make a blicky to the link that opens your post.

14 Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture

Always good to hear from you at this forum.

As for what I have been reflecting on lately myself,
it comes under the category of a single popular-music act by a duo.

Jim Seals and Dash Crofts got their start as teenagers from Texas,
getting into a group called the Champs whose instrumental single "Tequila" was so popular that it refused to go away for a long time.
Seals and Crofts were not on that studio recording.
When one or more of the Champs members on said lucrative recording,
quit the Champs rather than tour with the group,
these two young men were hired for the tour.
They met Glen Campbell, amongst others, in that fashion.

Today, Glen Campbell has passed away after coming down with Alzheimer's.
Jim Seals survived a stroke, and no longer plays the guitar or saxophone (which he played on those Champs/"Tequila" tours); nevertheless, Seals is still alive.
So is Dash Crofts, the older of the two.

For several decades, after the demise of the Champs,
Seals & Crofts took their songwriting and performing out on the road,
converted to the Baha'i faith, and got a contract with Warner Brothers.

I don't doubt that these songwriters and performers have seen everything at least once --
the stories that they could tell!

Do you recall the variety show on television, hosted by the Smothers Brothers? I sure do.
I was pretty young at the time, but I recall watching the broadcasts.
It was on the Smothers Brothers TV show that I first saw and heard Seals & Crofts, and I bought recordings by them as a result of that introduction.
What is there today
with which to compare the Smothers Brothers variety show?

Thanks, everyone, for listening.