Living in a World that Can't Be Fixed

✍ Scribed by Curtis White

• Publisher: Melville House
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 119 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1612198090

✦ 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...