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Hormeze

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May 12

What did the 60s get right? What did they get wrong? How do we do it right this time?

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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· May 12

9. in other words, what happened in the 60s needs to happen again but better this time. better ideas, better techniques, better visions of a future worth fighting for. reconstruction and not just deconstruction

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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free love was not that great i think. it must've seemed liberating at the time but we're dealing with the fallout now 😬

8:56 PM · May 12, 2022Twitter Web App

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

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i was also told (by

iirc?) to read slouching towards bethlehem by joan didion on this topic

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Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Wikipedia

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Hmm, I think interpreting the free love part of the 1960s movements as negative may be a uniquely 21st Century American critique of ourselves: a lot of the problem was "so, what if we did this to 'liberate' ourselves but actually did nothing about domination by men?"

The rest was predictably reaping the rewards of mindless "negative libertarianism": with no positive obligation, nor significant reward for doing good, and no negative prohibition, nor force keeping people in check, the people who already had power abused it.