A review by bibliocyclist
Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed:Reimagining Counterculture Today by Curtis White

3.0

Flannery O’Connor’s character Misfit proclaims, “She would have been a good woman if there had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life.” White applies this characterization to the “inconveniently stupid” among us today. Read the short stories and the social criticism, and draw parallels of your own.

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“In capitalist culture life does not live.” —TA

What humans aspire to is the pleasure of homeostasis.

Consider this dystopian vision. We get the Guaranteed Minimum Income we’re all supposed to want, and the economy then looks like this: the oligarchs take the profits through prodigious monopoly rents; robots do most of the work; the world is awash with cheap consumer goods; and we superseded humans have the privilege of paying for those goods with free money.

How do I remain rich even after the end of money and a habitable planet?

“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.” —MA

“Delusion will last until it is about to become fatal, at which point an onset of sanity is certain.” —JKG