So I love your Substack and really appreciate your writing and hope you’ll tolerate a bit of dissent! Isn’t it a bit of a myth that the sixties can be summed up in those particular images? (not that myths and archetypes aren’t valuable in general) I dimly remember my parents in the late 60s and none of this came anywhere near working class northern England. It’s also a very particular framing of you think of the movement of the sixties which achieved real change - the civil rights movement.
Yes I agree that it is just one take on the Sixties Gabriel. It is one that speaks to me but i agree that there could be so many other ways to look at it. One that comes to mind, archetypally speaking, is the Dionysian, the rise of a Dionysian kind of energy. Sometimes i think we write on the basis of something deep within our own experience that we are trying to understand. But for another person it will often be quite different. Thanks for your message.
So I love your Substack and really appreciate your writing and hope you’ll tolerate a bit of dissent! Isn’t it a bit of a myth that the sixties can be summed up in those particular images? (not that myths and archetypes aren’t valuable in general) I dimly remember my parents in the late 60s and none of this came anywhere near working class northern England. It’s also a very particular framing of you think of the movement of the sixties which achieved real change - the civil rights movement.
Yes I agree that it is just one take on the Sixties Gabriel. It is one that speaks to me but i agree that there could be so many other ways to look at it. One that comes to mind, archetypally speaking, is the Dionysian, the rise of a Dionysian kind of energy. Sometimes i think we write on the basis of something deep within our own experience that we are trying to understand. But for another person it will often be quite different. Thanks for your message.