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lil_dog
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Posted: 08.27.09, 06:26 PM
A pleasant and interesting person!
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lisbartlett
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Posted: 09.17.09, 10:22 AM
"counterculture condemns you to marginality." interesting.

never thought about the idea of winning culturally but not politically. this highlight gives me new understanding!

"we can't see it because it doesn't have edges."
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Tim Graham
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Posted: 09.17.09, 06:10 PM
Hollywood speaks again. The failed counterculture as part of a progressive movement is a lot of what is wrong in America today. They gave us woodstock, illicit drugs, free love, & Charles Manson just to name a few. The counterculture is synonymous with failure. Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/counterculture
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dadadata
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Posted: 01.12.10, 03:59 AM
Give a counterculture a bad name and you no longer have to acknowledge how thoroughly the adaptation and marketing by the "mainstream" culture of its aesthetics, morés and modes of sexuality, art forms and music, clothing styles, linguistic conventions, and social and environmental awareness have 30 to 40 years down the line transformed your life and largely for the better. The psychosocial paradigms represented by Uncle Milty, Ed Sullivan, The Honeymooners, I Love Lucy, Leave it to Beaver - which could have been your enduring cultural role models - aren't. Can we suck in our tie-dyed microbrewed gut and say "thank you masked man."? As for anyone's problem discriminating between rain and urine on their back - all i can say is "don't look up..." Because something is happening here. But you don't know what it is. Do you, Mister Jones?
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Nonzeroone
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Posted: 01.17.10, 10:27 PM
"I don't think that the counter culture failed."

While I come away from your commentary with a great energy, I, unfortunately, think that while I'd like to meet your daughter (as America, no doubt, creates a dream woman who can kill a terrorist at a hundred yards and fuck like a French whore--under the right circumstances), we are headed for a hellish future within the context of resource scarcity and global wage competition; that is to say, we (the--mostly white--Americans) have had our "way with the world" as a result of a racist and murderous government, and not all of US want to live a life of unnecessary luxury based upon the murder of Peoples living in Harmony with Earth--just to continue to fuck like Kings and Queens.
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