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Countercultures: modernity’s last gasp | Meaningness

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The hippies and the Moral Majority both tried to rescue systematic eternalism—and failed. We live amongst their wreckage.

The countercultural mode of the 1960s-80s marked the final attempts to rescue the glory of systems from the maw of nihilistic collapse . It failed, and we live in its wreckage. It would be polite to say “enduring influence” but I’d rather call it “wreckage.” As civilization burned , we built two vast, fantastical, ornate galleons as escape ships. But they were not the slightest bit sea-worthy; and they collided and broke up in the harbor. The crash left a floating mass of broken spars and tangled lines, choking access to the exit. Millions of people are still trying to live on that flotsam, so

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