Living in a World that Can't Be Fixed
β Scribed by Curtis White
- Publisher
- Melville House
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 119 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1612198090
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β¦ Synopsis
"This is a book about counterculture, and that's a problem . . . "
So begins Curtis White's thrilling call for the revitalization of counterculture today.
The problem, White argues, is twofold: first, most of us think of counterculture as a phenomenon stuck in the 1960s, and, second, what passes as counterculture today . . . simply isn't. Nevertheless, a reimagined counterculture is our best hope to save the planet, bypass social antagonisms, and create the world we actually want to live in. Now.
White--"the most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" (Will Blythe, Elle)--shows how the products of our so-called resistance, from Ken Burns to Black Panther , rarely offer a meaningful challenge to power, and how our loyalty to the "American Lifestyle" is self-defeating and keeps us from making any real social change.
The result is an inspiring case for practicing civil disobedience as a way of life, and a clear vision for a...
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