The reference, as I'm sure Douglas Clarke will have spotted, is to
Pinker's _The Language Instinct_, which discusses the "creolisation"
of "pidgin" languages by the succeeding generation. The point is that
the new generation learns the "pidgin" as its native language, and
systematises it in the process.
I don't know whether Mark is saying that the "happening" of the 60s
was socially enabled by lots of guilt-free bonking, or that at a
psychological/metaphysical level the dissociation of sex from death
freed people's minds in other ways. Maybe both. I've been conditioned
by reading certain 2nd wave feminists to regard the "free love" side
of it with a certain suspicion: whose freedom? On what terms? But
maybe that's already a re-imposition of the very psychic boundaries
that were being lifted, suspended at the time.
Dominic
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