People nostalgize the past but Stewart Brand attended the same prep school as Zuck, Leary was a Harvard psychologist who first tried shrooms at an affluent resort town outside Mexico City. These movements were privileged, even if it’s not as extremely unequal as it is now.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1064639819123351552 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Is it more significant where those movements took people rather than where they started? For all its privilege, the counterculture opened a lot of wc minds - enough to start asking questions about race, class, gender. Zuckerberg seems more about closing doors and burying evidence
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where did what part of what movement take people? 1960s counterculture is arguably many simultaneous movements. How much do Brand, the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez and the New Left actually overlap?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Good question! My parents were at Berkeley in the 50s, starving pre-med students. The coffeehouse/folk music scene made room for a mixed-race couple like them. But then... so had Harry Bridges changed minds with his integration of the ILWU (‘30s) & defiant marriage. CC is repeat!
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To be fair, Brand and the Black Panthers did put out a magazine issue together once. http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2003/
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