The Root Causes of Why We're FUBAR
or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” ...
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The Root Causes of Why We’re FUBAR
Or “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” I’m tempted to simply post: “The U/S is FUBAR and the UK is heading the same way. “That’s it. That’s the post.” I was going to say that coming in the wake…
![Image containing a text quotation, with the word "LOVE" in light blue and the "O" made into a ban-the-bomb peace sign, in the lower left-hand corner. The text, from Eugene McCarraher, The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity, reads:
“Demanding release from the Apollonian prison of instrumental rationality, the counterculture [of the 1960s] beckoned to Orpheus and Dionysus unbound, a gemeinschaft of festivity, pleasure, and mysticism embodied in communes, rock concerts, “be-ins,” handicrafts, and organic farming. Sponsoring a profusion of experiments in consciousness, it practiced “expressive individualism,” in Robert Bellah’s words, another Romantic celebration of unrestrained feeling and sensuality.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kxmqkqrpm2hfuswp7k5mqd6f/bafkreiatnbm7fhpnzfn4dtqcjjpuq2vibaavuzbf2rxobyge36n45n4vh4)
