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Quotes from The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America — Roger Kimball

born 1953 United States

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As with most revolutions, the counterculture's call for total freedom quickly turned into a demand for total control.

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

Incidentally, why is it that drug abuse is always described as an 'experiment', as if some important scientific enterprise were at stake instead of hedonistic self-indulgence?

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

In short order, the unconventional became the established convention; the perverse was embraced as normal; the unspeakable was broadcast everywhere; the outrageous was met with enthusiastic applause.

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Kerouac were all on the side of the savage. That their penny-ante gnosticism was not only perpetuated but mythologized and spread abroad as a gospel of emancipation is something for which we have the Sixties to thank - or to blame.

The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America (2000)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Kimball (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.