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To: i-node who wrote (984197)	11/27/2016 4:03:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574487

Leave koan ALONE! His reality is different from yours.

To: i-node who wrote (984197)

11/27/2016 4:26:08 PM

From: koan

Respond to of 1574487

Why the 1960s was the first major existentialist movement in history mankind:

Before the 1960s all the people on earth, for all of history, lived according to myth and script. By and large whatever your family and society, or culture was and believed, their norms and mores were, you would be also be and believe. And it was very hard not to follow the path set out for you by your parents, culture and society. The pressure was great.

During the 1960s, the most enlightened people realized that this was ignorant. All of our norms and mores, one way or another were primitive. Some societies believed that women were second-class citizens, we were still segregating the races in the South in the early 1960s and gays had to stay in the closet for fear of harm.

In the 1960s people realized for the first time, en masse, that every individual had the right to manifest their destiny as they saw fit. No one should feel any undue pressure from anybody to conform to ideas that they did not share, or do not believe in."Do your own thing".

Every person had the right to self-actualization according to their own desires and beliefs. That was the foundation of the 60s, and that is the foundation of existentialism. An Individual interpretation of reality, and the freedom to manifest it.

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>> The thesis of the 1960s, that virtually no one understands, is that it was the first existential movement in the history of mankind. So in that sense, it was as important as the Industrial Revolution.

You, being such an intellectual and all, might need to explain the above remark. Because when I look at it, that group of people have created the most regulated, un-free environment that children of that era could possibly have expected. That is NOT existentialist.

We can do whatever we like as long as we buy health insurance. If I choose not to pay Social Security taxes -- purportedly for my benefit, but in reality, for the benefit of others who have beaten me to it -- then my property can be taken hostage by the government. People still go to prison for marijuana possession when a clearly majority don't want that.

There is no existentialism in this country. Not in any pure sense of the word.

San Francisco was a moment in time which is now subsumed with $5000 apartment rent an an obscession with making vast sums of money -- necessary, for paying vast sums of taxes and living with insane government mandates and the interest on even more insane levels of debt. Those former existentialists now ready to retire on pensions that for many, aren't going to be able to make ends meet.

So, what does "existentialism" mean to you? Because it certainly isn't the usual definition.