Middle-Class Whites Made The 1960s Counterculture
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2018
- The speaker is Theodore Roszak, author, historian, unique philosophical thinker. I loved interviewing him in 1989. He coined the phrase counterculture and had unique insights into the baby boomers without being one himself. If you found this of interest, please subscribe as I will present and future days many more comments from him. Thank you.
#middleclass #suburbs #1960s #civilrights #socialjustice #protest - Krátké a kreslené filmy
What he says makes perfect sense. They had the social and economic space to be dissatisfied with their norm, As someone who was born into a minority family that was below poverty (In Northern California), the struggle to be able to do things that were taken for granted by the white middle class of the 80s and 90s (Decent jobs, university and to be taken seriously in the academic and professional worlds) was something that always weighed on my soul. Whereas the white, middle/upper middle class friends I had would complain about things like their father wanting them to work at his law office or about why their parents wouldn't respect their poetry, or that they felt guilty for having Hispanic gardeners.
True my parents weren't spoiled but spoiled us to an extent but realising the error late I can appreciate every word you've written/typed went to private school's had my own demon's and didn't comply-and-conform to my parents set rule's-and-regulations/rule's-and-restrictions/policies-and-programmes/protocol's-and-proceedures/code-of-conduct which I found draconian had similar so-called friend's acquaintances who were either upper-middle socioeconomic or upper-socioeconomic who lived-and-breathed in another world same family stresses-and-anxieties but without the financial stresses-and-anxieties who would quip sny remarks at my expense at any given whim-and-will I got the best of the worst in ethnic blue-collar personalities-and-psychologies/mind-set's and english/british/anglo-saxon-celtic white-collar personalities-and-psychologies/mind-set's two extreme opposites which fomented-and-fostered unyielding layer's-and-levels step's-and-stages of stress-and-anxiety and I'm already got mental disorder's so it exacerbates it or further exacerbates it
These same privileged, well connected people looked, and still look, down their nose at 'lower-class' white people. It's un-PC to use slurs directed at so-called people of color PoC, but they have no problem with 'white trash' ,etc. The SJW phenomena is connected to perception of socioeconomic status. High status people are 'enlightened', intellectually superior. Isn't really about morality, it's about the perception of intellectual superiority.
Oh wow a californian minority you must be sooooo unique
Very interesting person. Great viewpoints.
Great video.. Accurate perspective..
Interesting
I always thought Roszak was kind of flaky, but this is a searingly insightful three minutes of thinking. You could write a book about it, if anybody still cared about the generation of people who started out as would-be revolutionaries and ended up creating an even more avaricious Establishment than the one they originally opposed.
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He was 56 in 1989, d.2011
Interesting that
RADIUM CLOCK: Is the interviewee Theodore Roszak (sp?)?
They want basic income and to leave the 9-5 without having to live by a social credit system to receive the money or losing their individuality to communism. We have such wage stagnation and growing inequality between the rich and poor in part because of too much order in current industries, too much consolidation of wealth/power where big corporations only hire conformists who are working harder for less year by year.
There needs to be more chaos/disruption, new industries. Entrepreneurship and innovation could be a way for many to make big money, retain individuality, and retire earlier too. Becoming communists, forcing people to be the same, seems ridiculous if you're a nonconformist.
Should I write an essay about communism? In the end it comes down to individuality vs collectivism. If you're more of an individual, communism is a funny thing to want.
Innovate, create, disrupt current industries. Too much regulation and bureaucracy in America, too much order, and consolidation of wealth/power in many industries including health has resulted in growing inequality.