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Lets make fun of Obama while he is still relevant.
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Not exactly on topic, but that's OK with me Wink

Theodore Roszak wrote the book The Making of a Counter-Culture, thus inventing the term, in 1969.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making...er_Culture
He was generally in favor of the counter-culture, though this was a study of it and its deeper roots. It's not about the value of free markets, as Reaganomics is. It's about liberation of consciousness from the technocratic society.

I went to hear him speak, I think it was at the Palo Alto Unitarian Church, in about the early 1980s. I can't quote him in print saying this, but I remember very clearly that he said that Reagan's movement against big government was a "fraudulent attempt" to mislead people who might be interested in or part of the counter-culture.

Roszak also wrote the introduction to Schumacher's 1973 book Small is Beautiful. In the lecture he talked about the link between personal and planetary liberation. The planet is big, he said in answer to my question, but it's institutions that have gotten too big that depersonalize society. He said society needed to be slowed down and scaled down, humanized and spiritualized. He was promoting his book Person/Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society (1979).

from the google search:
The Making of a Counter Culture
Book by Theodore Roszak
3.8/5 · Goodreads
The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition is a work of non-fiction by Theodore Roszak originally published in 1969. Wikipedia
Originally published: 1969
Author: Theodore Roszak
Genre: Non-fiction
Publisher: University of California
Country: United States of America
Nominations: National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

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RE: Lets make fun of Obama while he is still relevant. - by Eric the Green - 11-15-2016, 07:28 PM

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