Which philosophers were behind sixties counter-culture and protests?

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Deckard
 
Reply Wed 23 Dec, 2009 01:45 pm
@kennethamy,
kennethamy;113853 wrote:
But broken dreams of what? The term, "coercive utopianism" springs to mind. Especially now that we are undergoing another spasm of it in government. And with a vengeance! They just have slightly new slogans. "Hope and Change" for instance. And, "the fierce urgency of now!". Here we go again.

The nature of Coercive Utopians.


Some people have to be forced to be free.
 
Arjuna
 
Reply Wed 23 Dec, 2009 02:47 pm
@kennethamy,
kennethamy;113853 wrote:
But broken dreams of what? The term, "coercive utopianism" springs to mind. Especially now that we are undergoing another spasm of it in government. And with a vengeance! They just have slightly new slogans. "Hope and Change" for instance. And, "the fierce urgency of now!". Here we go again.

The nature of Coercive Utopians.
George Will springs to mind. Not only does he believe that anybody who doesn't like baseball is an idiot, he thinks American liberals and Russian Communists are the same thing. Or, I should say, he talks that way so as to be sensational.
 
 

 
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