Me, Andrew, I'm having a series of interesting conversations with
ghosts about relative values. There's a considerable family of those.
And listening to what jokes people tell, learning recognise the
territorial marks gangs leave on lamposts, what a language of trees,
looking at graffiti, listening to how males identify selfhood in rap,
hearing the tap-tap signs from the bottom of edifices like churches
and so forth and so forth. I know there were a lot of positives paths
etc from the Sixties, but quick fix transcendence buys its supplies
off a dark dealer. The Sixties wanted to throw away the burden of the
past, well if you dump memory you piss on the future.
Of course there was an element of play on my part, but one has to
continually plot the present. The Sixties went for Liberation Now, an
instant abandonment of restrictions, and in doing so they liberated
the Beast itself. They liberated Mammon from restraint. The point of
culture is to cultivate this garden that feeds us all, not turn it
into a dope-factory. The hippies all used to go to Afghanistan didn't
they? I wonder what's going on there now.
Best
Dave
2008/6/10 andrew burke <[log in to unmask]>:
> Let's see what you are doing with the present, David. I'm of the Sixties
> myself and hope your tone is playful in part: otherwise, I can only say you
> have limited knowledge of the many positive paths started in the sixties. I
> believe 'money money' already had too much power before the Sixties and it
> swamped many of the good seeds sown. Not all the dreams came true, granted,
> but the Sixties hardly started capitalism or the imperial aggression of
> Western nations; it lost the battle against them but some stratas of society
> since know that there are alternatives to these platforms. I'm no scholar of
> the period, but I would think that the a/g in art and music certainly
> changed things, and the influence of the Beats/San Francisco
> Renaissance/Black Mt was powerful.
>
> Time for dinner now (and it's not macrobiotic), so I shall close.
>
> Andrew
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> 2008/6/10 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Yeah, the Sixties, its avant-garde are the Elders of today. And did
>> they fuck-it up for those coming after, man. effectively the
>> liberation of the Sixties opened the door for the Far Right. The drug
>> trade, the art market, the arms trade, I don't want to think about the
>> rest right now. They wanted the ultimate short-cut to transcendent
>> salvation, so we have Facebook, gang-culture, money money. Stephen
>> Hawking looking for the Ultimate in his machine blah blah.
>> The tossers, they had a real chance and they blew it for their own
>> gratification. We're in the future they threw away now.
>>
>> 2008/6/10 Frederick Pollack <[log in to unmask]>:
>> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Hondros" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 12:20 AM
>> > Subject: Re: Conference on Poetry of the Seventies
>> >
>> >
>> >> I wonder whether the sixties and seventies even existed.
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> > They did, they did!!! I got laid more than linoleum.
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
>> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>>
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>
> --
> Andrew
> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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