Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making a culture which rejects this suicidal way of life, and what sort of culture is it? Roszak reveals his urgency. He places all his hope for a humane future in the maturation of a counter culture-which, right now, is just beginning to grow...
...should all quit our masochistic flag-waving for drugs. Roszak doesn't have much faith in dope as the way to achieve the new life, and as much as I'd rather not. I have to agree with him. The hallucinogens could easily become the opiate of the counter culture...
...event, this odyssey takes up nearly half the book; it is a fascinating trip which defies summary. In it Roszak also thinks out many of his own opinions on the directions the counter culture must take for the future...
...short run, there is only one effective sort of action that the counter culture (and for that matter, everybody) can take in oppositon to the ultimate acsendancy of technocratic totalitarianism: in Marcuse's words, the "Great Refusal...
...most difficult, most meaningful experiments, the counter culture must refuse official legitimacy and easy publicity, for they will certainly lead to quick vulgarization. The free universities, for instance, have to refuse that absolute corrupter, academic credit. The communes have to decline the slick publicity which will no doubt spawn Communal Weekends at posh resorts. Horny house-wives are already flocking to places like Esalen, looking for miracles and a good...