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What does it mean?
Leary frames 1960s counterculture as a self-aware experiment to create art-focused living.
In plain terms
Activists saw themselves as future observers building a new life as art.
What can you take from it?
View culture as a designed experiment.

Where it applies

  • social movements
  • creative living

Putting it to work

  • design your culture
  • treat life as art

Questions to consider

  • What culture are you building?
  • How do you live as art?

Another view

It romanticizes the era without acknowledging its social costs.

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