>>14163755I'm reading "Ideal Minds" which ...goes on and on about these different waves and causes in the 70s but the main motif of the book is that people gave up on statist answers and sorta crawled in personal myths and cults and weird lil o seperatist causes. Don't agree with it but it's pretty stimulating fare and anyways is it possible to go "both" or "all" sides at once? Of course it is.
We've become a nation of seperate cultures all lorded over by an entrenched machine that does whatever it wants and lets us prattle away as long as we keep seperated and powerless.
>Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews.In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism...
http://libgen.st/book/index.php?md5=7F714707FAFE9C98EF7F882793AFC318get what you can from libgen.
now!
seems like the window is closing there.
