Since I’ve been blogging for a few years now, I feel comfortable posting a few of my most popular posts. For whatever reasons, this one has garnered by far the most hits:
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Conceptual spaces: politics, philosophy, art, literature, religion, cultural history
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Thanks, Daria!
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S’alright.
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I read the original post, and I agree with you, on having experienced liberalism both in the 60’s and in the 80’s. Also, I wonder if the situation has gotten a bit better among liberals since the 80’s. It seems to me that it may have, though that view is affected by a couple geographical moves; and the spirit of political correctness is more-or-less pervasive among progressives in varying demographic regions.
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I cautiously agree, A.P. Whereas the counterproductive (in my mind) form of cultural liberalism (I’m leaving economics and foreign policy out for now) dominated from the late 80s until recently, I believe today we see erratic swings. Sometimes the “identity politics/political correctness” liberals seem louder than ever, sometime those fed up with all that and seeking a new way seem ascendant. And the latter group quite explicitly draws on the archival hippie movement. From a major London exhibit last month (“You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels, 1966-70,” Victoria and Albert Museum) to a forthcoming (2018) Carnegie Hall series on the 1960s that rattled The Wall Street Journal (Joe Queenan, 02/16/17), hippies are resurgent in the popular imagination. Good news for you, for me, and, let’s hope, for my novel 😊
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