@okayultra Yes; what I’ve read about is his later work (Eros&Civ,1D man) which analyzed USSR and USA as both oppressive totalitarianisms.
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@okayultra wrt USA, I don’t think that was utterly insane in 1950s; it wasn’t true then, but things could have developed that way, and1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra afaict, 1950s USA actually was pretty stultifyingly conformist. His theory of why, and what to do about it, was mostly wrong, but1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra not unreasonable given what was understood at the time. And tbf a lot of good did come out of the ‘60s counterculture, along with1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra a lot of idiocy and bad consequences. I see the problem now as politics having “atomized” into incoherence, so jagged shards of1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra ideologies that once made sense in a specific historical context are wielded senselessly as contemporary culture-war weapons.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@okayultra I’ve started writing about this: http://meaningness.com/meaningness-history … http://meaningness.com/modes-chart http://meaningness.com/systems-crisis-breakdown … etc
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