Reddit mentions of Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House

This comment may be insufficiently sourced, i won't argue if it gets deleted, but i wholly recommend reading R.U. Sirius' Counter-culture through the ages on this subject.

Their thesis is that the Jewish people at the time of Abraham is the earliest documented counterculture. Some kind of pastoral peaceful revolt fighting the oppression of bureaucratic and militarized Babylon.

This is an opinion piece written by and about Trump supporters.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/media_antitrump_frenzy_will_backfire.html

If someone supported Trump because he represented the right to say what you believed in the face of a culture that overwhelmingly labeled those beliefes racist/facist/sexist how would you respond to someone threatening your political win with violence? Coming from that point of view, it would confirm that you made the right choice. That Trump is the freedom candidate and his opposition is worse than you imagined in the past.


I think it's useful to view the anti-political correctness chunk of Trump's support in terms of a counter-culture movement.


https://www.amazon.com/Counterculture-Through-Ages-Abraham-House/dp/0812974751

I want to highlight the description on the back of the book.

"Product Description

As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it’s in plain sight, challenging the status quo; and at still other times it erupts in a fiery burst of creative–or destructive–energy to change the world forever. 

But until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history’s great blind spots. Individual countercultures have been explored, but never before has a book set out to demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, and to illustrate its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures. 

Countercultural pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy. With a distinctive mix of scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation. 

Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, which left indelible marks on Western culture, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, which were equally influential in the East, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century–Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women’s liberation, punk rock–to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, which combine science, art, music, technology, politics, and religion in astonishing (and sometimes disturbing) new ways, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we’ve been . . . and where we’re going. "

Counter culture movements feed off the violence used to suppress them. They feel like they are growing, and so do the people that they scare. If that is all true, then Trump is the begging.

comment content: This is an opinion piece written by and about Trump supporters.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/media_antitrump_frenzy_will_backfire.html

If someone supported Trump because he represented the right to say what you believed in the face of a culture that overwhelmingly labeled those beliefes racist/facist/sexist how would you respond to someone threatening your political win with violence? Coming from that point of view, it would confirm that you made the right choice. That Trump is the freedom candidate and his opposition is worse than you imagined in the past.


I think it's useful to view the anti-political correctness chunk of Trump's support in terms of a counter-culture movement.


https://www.amazon.com/Counterculture-Through-Ages-Abraham-House/dp/0812974751

I want to highlight the description on the back of the book.

"Product Description

As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it’s in plain sight, challenging the status quo; and at still other times it erupts in a fiery burst of creative–or destructive–energy to change the world forever. 

But until now the countercultural phenomenon has been one of history’s great blind spots. Individual countercultures have been explored, but never before has a book set out to demonstrate the recurring nature of counterculturalism across all times and societies, and to illustrate its dynamic role in the continuous evolution of human values and cultures. 

Countercultural pundit and cyberguru R. U. Sirius brilliantly sets the record straight in this colorful, anecdotal, and wide-ranging study based on ideas developed by the late Timothy Leary with Dan Joy. With a distinctive mix of scholarly erudition and gonzo passion, Sirius and Joy identify the distinguishing characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that, for all their surface differences, countercultures share important underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism, and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation. 

Ranging from the Socratic counterculture of ancient Athens and the outsider movements of Judaism, which left indelible marks on Western culture, to the Taoist, Sufi, and Zen Buddhist countercultures, which were equally influential in the East, to the famous countercultural moments of the last century–Paris in the twenties, Haight-Ashbury in the sixties, Tropicalismo, women’s liberation, punk rock–to the cutting-edge countercultures of the twenty-first century, which combine science, art, music, technology, politics, and religion in astonishing (and sometimes disturbing) new ways, Counterculture Through the Ages is an indispensable guidebook to where we’ve been . . . and where we’re going. "

Counter culture movements feed off the violence used to suppress them. They feel like they are growing, and so do the people that they scare. If that is all true, then Trump is the begging.


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