Yet another "another"

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

Interesting...interesting, too, that he wasn't (?) against drugs or  
rock-and-roll; I guess sex was the one of the big 3 that hit closest  to home...
 
In a message dated 08/13/2005 7:39:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
paul.mackin at verizon.net writes:

Rcfchess at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 08/13/2005  5:38:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> paul.mackin at verizon.net  writes:
>
>     Marcuse's One Dimensional Man also  is highly
>     critical of at least the sex part of  drugs, sex, and rock-and-roll.
>
> And that was way BEFORE AIDS!  What was HIS problem?!

It was  even before the 70s, when the  sexual revolution REALLY took 
hold.  (among grown-ups  even)

Marcuse  I gather was quite an old fart as far as  traditional connubial 
behavior was concerned. It had seemed OK in theory  but strong doubts as 
to earlier hopes that  full release of sexual  energy might lead to a 
less destructive society arose from the observation  of how sex could be 
commodified, etc., etc.

Interestingly. while a  lot of the action at College of the Surf was in 
progress, Marcuse was  doing his academic thing right down the road  
LaJolla way at UC San  Diego.  Apparently Marcuse was quite appalled by 
the student  revolutionaries' turning their wrath against the authority 
of the  professors. He considered the academy a sort of last hope. We all 
live and  learn.




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