[lbo-talk] Yahoo! News Story - 'Dormouse'RetellsSiliconValleyHistory

Adam Souzis adamsz at gmail.com
Sun Apr 24 17:15:39 PDT 2005


perhaps you have an overly idealistic idea of idealism? -- adam

On 4/24/05, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Adam Souzis wrote:
> >
> > >
> > recall that my initial reply was a pointer to an essay by theodore
> > rosak. From the introduction:
> >
> > "[we] are left with many questions, not least of all how we got from
> > the heady idealism of the counter culture to Reaganomics and the Moral
> > Majority, Nine Inch Nails and the dot.com feeding frenzy.
>
> The problem for me is the phrase, "heady idealism of the counter
> culture." It has never been demonstrated to me that there _was_ a
> "counter" culture (as opposed to one of many inflections of The
> Culture). And I never (at the time or since) saw much if any "idealism"
> in what went by the name of the counter culture.
>
> Carrol
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