How—and why!—countercultures sought to reform psychologies and polities: to counteract alienation, anxiety, and anomie.| Meaningness
Failure to find new foundations for meaning, to recognize diversity, to provide community, and to transcend opposition: all doomed counterculturalism.| Meaningness
Distinguishing irrational, anti-rational, and meta-rational critiques of rationalism helps reply effectively.| Meta-rationality
Fluidity addresses the atomization of culture, society, and self with ships that sail the sea of meaning: collaborative, improvised, intimate, and playful.| Meaningness
The hippies and the Moral Majority both tried to rescue systematic eternalism—and failed. We live amongst their wreckage.| Meaningness
The hippie counterculture was structurally and functionally similar to the Moral Majority Christian Right counterculture a decade later.| Meaningness
A positive and realistic vision for the future of society, culture, and self, drawing lessons from recent history.| Meaningness
The culture war, political polarization, Baby Boomer bafflement: the unending zombie slugfest pairing the two countercultures of the 1960s-80s.| Meaningness
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