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Originally Posted by Kegmama
Most contemporary counterculture movements seek to defy "authority", "conformity", and "convention" on an individual level; and instead celebrate the "individuality", "freedom" and "independence" of each person, and perhaps "defiance" in itself.
The prospect of a constructive and inclusive counter-cultural movement aimed at fundamental change and dedicated to increased public awareness, such as the people's rights and peace movement of the 1960s, seems unlikely to spring from any one of modern day's specific trends, so long as they remain disinterested in public action and simply "deviate" from inconsequential social and cultural norms; finding a niche in a subculture as opposed to challenging the fundamentals of pop culture.
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Spot on!
I think a lot of what other people are describing here are "subcultures". A subculture tends to be quite happy to find its space within a given society. It may reject parts of society but has no real interest in overturning the 'system' so long as it can still function within it. A counterculture on the other hand tends to want to transform the very society they're a part of. IE a skateboarder is part of a subculture, an anti-globalization protestor is part of a counterculture, and so on.