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“Chapter 6,” titled “Fifties Generation, Marijuana, & Caffeine:”

“Rebels Without a Cause, Beatniks, & “Mad Men”...

“Existential Angst & “Phony” Conformity”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022*

by M. Adzema

(pub 9/22)

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CW22Q 6/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

From *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website now & to be published Sept 2022)

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CW22Q 6/2

[*Quotes/highlights:*] “Some [Fifties Generation members] conformed to & followed the WWII Generation mentality & some others, a lesser number, were radically individualistic free-thinkers & social experimenters;” []

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CW22Q 6/3

[] “[these free-thinkers & social experimenters] would be forerunners to the generation succeeding them, the Sixties Generation.” []

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CW22Q 6/4

[] “These free-thinking sorts were cast alongside the pervasive conforming mindset of the Fifties, which was embraced by the great majority of that generation.” []

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CW22Q 6/5

[] “Yet this dual nature of the Fifties Generation was an influential template in creating the stark division that we see in America as the Culture War, today.” []

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CW22Q 6/6

[] “Revolutionary numbers for the 50s Generation were not large, relatively, yet in being the initiators of many of the evolutionary ideas that would come into fruition in the 60s, these 50s Gen members were extremely important.” []

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CW22Q 6/7

[] “Meanwhile, the conforming side of the Fifties Generation would continue their alliance with outmoded & dangerous ideas as brought to them from their culture & their WWII Generation elders.” []

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CW22Q 6/8

[] “The one side of the Fifties Generation would listen to the beatnik poetry & socially conscious folk songs of that era of the Fifties.” []

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CW22Q 6/9

[] “The other side [of the Fifties Generation] would be conforming “Mad men” (Madison Avenue men), corporate cogs.” []

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CW22Q 6/10

[]“A more evolved generation, which was a result of the change in parenting practices, occurring over this time, sought better recreational drugs—ones that were not as much about denial & defensiveness but about openness & self-realization.”[]

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CW22Q 6/11

[] “Janov has said that marijuana acts to kind of “bend” defenses, which allows repressed feelings to surface….”

“Since we all have some degree of primal pain (Pain), we all have defenses to being fully feeling,..” []

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CW22Q 6/12

[] “…so the effect of marijuana for most people is to open them to some of the pleasurable feelings that have gotten repressed along with the repression of Pain.” []

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CW22Q 6/13

[] “…marijuana fosters an alpha-wave state of consciousness—the state sought by meditators. Which brings up another effect: Cannabis reduces one’s feelings of needing to achieve or to be goal- or achievement-oriented.” []

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CW22Q 6/14

[] “In contrast to drugs like alcohol & nicotine, which serve to aid repression & to help to numb or reduce one’s perception of both inner & outer reality,..” []

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CW22Q 6/15

[] …both marijuana & LSD have the effect of opening or enhancing one’s awareness of inner & outer reality.” []

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CW22Q 6/16

[] “…for some people this effect of marijuana changes with continued drug use. It is as if the continued “bending” of defenses can eventually lead to a “loosening” of them….” []

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CW22Q 6/17

[] “This enhanced inner awareness can include the awareness of the underlying motivations of oneself & others, & this is mostly not pretty.” []

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CW22Q 6/18

[]“Because the normal person is motivated mostly by past, or primal, pains or traumas & is acting out scripts or roles that are pathetic attempts to re-create or struggle with events that happened a long time ago,...”[]

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CW22Q 6/19

[] “…[Because the normal person is acting out scripts or roles that are pathetic attempts to re-create or struggle with events that happened a long time ago,] the normal person is not really IN the present.” []

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CW22Q 6/20

[] “The person, as humanistic psychologists have described, is inauthentic & is acting out games or scripts, about which they are totally unconscious.” []

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CW22Q 6/21

[] “[Normal people] have identified with these scripts, roles, goals, & motivations—the outgrowth of a completely unique set of past experiences of pain & trauma—& haven’t a clue as to their arbitrary character.” []

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CW22Q 6/22

[] “In this state of heightened awareness of the inner world of oneself & others, one perceives oneself & others as puppets or windup dolls.” []

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CW22Q 6/23

[]“One can become aware of one’s actions as pathetically seeking to satisfy very old needs,which are totally irrelevant to the present context,w others who are similarly & robot-like also seeking to satisfy very different past deprivations.”[]

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CW22Q 6/24

[] “What follows from this perception is the conclusion that people are basically ‘phony,’ or ‘plastic;’ that life is unreal.” []

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CW22Q 6/25

[]“One perceives that ordinary motivations in pursuit of normal social values such as achievement, status/popularity,& pleasing appearance are meaningless rituals—games—that are totally irrelevant to the true nature of one’s being or reality.”

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CW22Q 6/26

[] “& one can see oneself as being trapped in this prison of unconscious scripts, with no chance of release or true perception of reality.” []

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CW22Q 6/27

[] “Their culture [of the “Beat Generation” of the Fifties] included the rise of existential belief, the glorification & poetification of angst,..” []

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CW22Q 6/28

[] “…& the belief that their contemporary society [of the 1950s] was characterized by alienation, conformism, inauthenticity, and, most tellingly, ‘phoniness.’” []

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CW22Q 6/29

[] “The normal life of the WWII Generation was seen as a ‘rat race,’ motivated by such high ideals (sarcasm intended) as ‘keeping up with the Joneses,’ & pervasive materialism & consumerism.” []

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CW22Q 6/30

[] “…art was deemed a weapon, however impotent, with which to rail against what seemed an overwhelming, huge mainstream ignorance or unconsciousness.” []

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CW22Q 6/31

[] “The Sixties Generation—also called the Vietnam Generation & the Baby-Boomers—would make a complete break with the dominant culture. They would create a counterculture.” []

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CW22Q 6/32

[] “[The 60s Generation] would redefine everything; they would seek to start everything over again, in view of the corruption & conformity they discovered all around them in the form of the establishment.” []

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CW22Q 6/33

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