It is interesting that the \u2018Sixties\u2019, that word that is a shorthand for all the things that seemed good but were, it now turns out, associated with some very bad things too (not least the reinforcement of libertarianism). Yes, there was \u2018free love\u2019, great music, liberating dress codes, and rise in laisser-faire attitude, but\u2026<\/p>\n
So, typical of the \u2018revision\u2019 of the Sixties myth is this quote from Karl Schroeder\u2019s essay \u201cNobody is More Woke thatn Trump\u201d:<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Trump is attacking the core institutions of the United States and the international order, it\u2019s because he knows that institutions embody values. He is \u201cwoke\u201d according to the definition that the term has had for the past century<\/a>. I like Gordana Lazi\u0107\u2019s definition of it, as referring to “a heightened awareness of social inequalities and injustices.” The thing is, both the American Left (if there is such a thing anymore) and MAGA share this exact kind of heightened awareness\u2014they just differ on what the injustices are.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
See also Part 3 of: Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age. Raymond Craib<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It is interesting that the \u2018Sixties\u2019, that word that is a shorthand for all the things that seemed good but were, it now turns out, associated with some very bad things too (not least the reinforcement of libertarianism). Yes, there was \u2018free love\u2019, great music, liberating dress codes, and rise in laisser-faire attitude, but\u2026 So, … Continue reading “The Sixties! An illusion of hope …”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brevities.harddfan.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}