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Bloom correlated the origin of wave of dunces arriving at college (and currently leading the country astray) with the Summer of Love in the 1960s.
by smitty1e 4y ago
Bloom correlated the origin of wave of dunces arriving at college (and currently leading the country astray) with the Summer of Love in the 1960s.
- yesenadam 4y agoI read it a long time ago and loved it, though wasn't at all sure how true its account was. Wasn't there a lot about how Nietzsche had taken over the USA and was just the air we breathe? - e.g. our talk of "values" and "lifestyle", key Nietzschean terms. I learned elsewhere how much Nietzsche got from Emerson, and how much Emerson in turn had got from Germans. A convoluted story! Also, the philosopher of the Summer of Love was German—Marcuse, from the Frankfurt School.
- goto11 4y agoBut the described language change correlates with 80's Reaganism rather then late-60s summer of love and counterculture. So I guess Blooms correlation have been falsified?