Adam Curtis's "The Century of the Self" traces a line from Reich and
Marcuse (and Laing, and...) to yuppies to celeb-culture.
It's always important to ask "whose sixties". Most people weren't
involved in the swinging metropolitan version. The things my folks
passed on to me from the sixties were things like Martin Carthy, the
Incredible String Band - intensely curious about the past, about the
signs and tokens of our shared culture (conceived vastly more widely
than "official" culture, but extending rather than abolishing it),
about the future possibilities repressed precisely by a too-limited
conception of what our traditions were.
Dominic
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