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For review of the OG's There are four main
parts to this material in the following
order. Traditionalism against which Romanticism
revolted 1. Puritanism 2. Work Ethic 3.
Gender traditionalism Major points are in
gray/black boxes The Romantic revolt comes under
3 headings Authenticity Part One INTUITION
Discover one's true self Major points are in
green boxes Authenticity Part Two EXPRESSIVISM
Express your true self Major Points are in red
boxes Authenticity Part 3 INTEGRITY Have the
integrity to maintain your true self Major
points are in blue boxes
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Part Two of Authenticity Expressivism
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authenticity

• Discover ones nature
• Listen to the still small voice
• Ignore conventional wisdom

• 2. Express ones nature
• be nonconformist
• Develop ones inborn abilities

3. Have the integrity to resist coercion out of
ones authentic life and seduction back into a
conventional life.
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expressivism
Once one has discovered ones true nature or
self, one must express that self in ones
entire way of life and work
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A note on freedom
The meaning of the word freedom has undergone
an evolution in American history. In the early
days of the Republic when Americans said we are
a Free people they meant that they were a
sovereign nation, no Longer under the dominion
of England. They meant independence Later the
word came to have a primarily domestic
usage Americans boasted of their freedom meaning
that they were Politically free. They voted,
they decided what policies would be. This became
associated with democracy. Americans were Free
because they lived in a democracy
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Under the influence of Romanticism free came to
have a third Meaning to be able to live as one
wanted, free from the Requirement to live as
others lived, free from the requirement That
they define morality as their communities did.
John Stuart Mill expressed this new sense in
his Classic work On Liberty
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Protection therefore against the tyranny of
the magistrate is not enoughthere needs
protection also against the tyranny of the
prevailing opinion and feeling against the
tendency of society to impose, by means other
than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices
as rules of conduct on those who dissent from
them, to fetter the development, and if possible,
prevent the formation of, any individuality not
in harmony with its ways, and compel all
characters to fashion themselves upon the model
of its own. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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In On Liberty Mill proposed a rule for the
acceptability of government and social action
that has since become the standard around which
Romantics rally The sole end for which mankind
are warranted, individually or collectively, In
interfering with the liberty of action of any of
their number, is self- protection.The only
purpose for which power can be rightfully
exercised over any member of a civilized
community, against his will, is to prevent harm
to others.
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This means that we cannot coerce or compel
anyone To act a certain way just because we think
it is Morally correct or respectable or
normal. People are free to live as they wish as
long as their Actions dont directly harm someone
else. They may be unconventional, offensive,
eccentric, Weird, rude, and even immoral in the
eyes of others, But they have a right to be so
without interference From others. And if people
find their behavior unacceptable, they Are free
to try to persuade the weirdos to change Their
ways but they may not compel them to do so.
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Mill continues Human liberty requires liberty
of conscience. . . Liberty of Thought and
feeling absolute freedom of opinion and
Sentiment on all subjects. . .the principle
requires liberty of tastes and pursuits of
framing the plan of our life to suit our own
character of doing as we like, subject to such
consequences as may follow Without impediment
from our fellow creatures, so long as What we do
does not harm them, even though they should Think
our conduct foolish, perverse, or wrong.. . The
only freedom which deserves the name is that
of pursuing our own good in our own way So long
as we do not attempt to deprive others of
theirs, Or impede their efforts to attain it.
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Mill uses a quote from Wilhelm von Humboldt As
the epigram for his book The grand leading
principle . . . is the absolute and essential
importance of human development in its richest
diversity.
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Emerson agrees Whilst I do what is fit for me,
and abstain from what is unfit, my neighbor and I
shall often agree in our means, and work together
for a time to one end. But whenever I find my
dominion over myself not sufficient for me, and
undertake the direction of him also, I overstep
the truth, and come into false relations to him.
I may have so much more skill or strength than
he, that he cannot express adequately his sense
of wrong, but it is a lie, and hurts like a lie
both him and me. Love and nature cannot maintain
the assumption it must be executed by a
practical lie, namely, by force. This undertaking
for another, is the blunder which stands in
colossal ugliness in the governments of the
world. It is the same thing in numbers, as in a
pair, only not quite so intelligible. I can see
well enough a great difference between my setting
myself down to a self-control, and my going to
make somebody else act after my views but when a
quarter of the human race assume to tell me what
I must do, I may be too much disturbed by the
circumstances to see so clearly the absurdity of
their command. Therefore, all public ends look
vague and quixotic beside private ones
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It is no accident that major social movements
in the last fifty years have been liberation
movements, or that the keyword in these struggles
has been freedom, rather than equality or
justice. Nor is it surprising that the Womens
Movement felt it necessary to struggle for
womens liberation even though women had the vote
and had (almost) all the same political freedoms
as men.
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It was Mill, himself a very proper Victorian
English gentleman, who put forth the idea that a
society needed to encourage eccentrics because,
he said, they are a laboratory for social
experimentation. It is they who try things out
that should not be first tried on a large-scale,
things that most of us would be unwilling or
afraid to try. We all benefit, Mill argues,
because we can learn from these experiments, and
then incorporate whatever works and avoid
whatever doesnt. Let those hippies experiment
with free love-- if all goes well, perhaps
we can loosen the conven- tional rules about
courtship to allow pre-marital sex and living
together before marriage.
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Every law, every convention or rule of art that
prevents self-expression or the full enjoyment
of the moment should be shattered and
abolished. Puritanism is the great enemy. The
crusade against puritanism is the only crusade
with which free individuals are justified In
allying themselves Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989),
literary critic
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Each mans, each womans, purpose in life is to
express himself, to realize his full
individuality through creative work. --Malcolm
Cowley Sara Wheeler, in Terra Incognita,
quotes a man who drives a very very large ice
tractor in Antarctica You see, Sara,said
Gerald, taking off his glasses,I cant paint,
or write, or hold a rhythm. I express myself by
making perfect surfaces on ice.
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Contrast 6 what is the meaning of
life?Romantics to express ones true
natureChristians version 1 to get to Heaven,
glorify God etc.Reformers to make the world a
better placeAltruists to do good for
othersChristians version 2 the Social Gospel
to feed the hungry, clothe the naked as commanded
in the Sermon on the MountJews to do justice on
earthtraditionalists to fulfill the duties of
ones situationmoralists to always do whats
right.Existentialists to avoid bad faith and
live freelyPlato et al. to find the truth, to
live a life of the mind--this is not an
exhaustive list.
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Cameo Dorothy Day
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For the ease and pleasure of treading the old
road, accepting the fashions, the education, the
religion of society, he takes the cross of
making his own, and, of course, the
self-accusation, the faint heart, the frequent
uncertainty and loss of time, which are the
nettles and tangling vines in the way of the
self-relying and self-directed and the state of
virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to
society, and especially to educated society. For
all this loss and scorn, what offset? He is to
find consolation in exercising the highest
functions of human nature.
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Pathologically resistant to authority
imposed from above, he was intent on creating
...something using all the means of expression at
his disposal which he would then personally unify
into a piece of work bearing the unmistakable
imprint of his own personality. It may be no
good, he was often to say of his work, but at
least its mine. More than anything else, more
than any idea or concept, more than any human
feeling or interpretation of experience, this is
what Welles stood for the insistence on
imprinting his own personality on his work.
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Be Yourself
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Believe in yourself for what you are, There is
only one judge of your work, and that is
yourself to hell with those who dont
understand! --Henry Matisse, 20th century
French painter
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I say, play your own way. Dont play what the
public wants. You play what you want and let
the public pick up on what youre doing-even if
it does take them fifteen, twenty
years. --Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist and
composer
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• Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. .
  .
• nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of
  your
• own mind.
• I have my own stern claims . . . If anyone
• imagines that this law is lax, let him keep
• its commandment one day.
• --Emerson

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The one thing a man fears next to death is the
loss of his good name...the only way he can
find respect for himself is by getting other
people to say he's a nice fellow. But some men
don't need the respect of their neighbors, and
so they aren't afraid to speak the
truth. --Arthur Miller
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In every work of genius we
recognize our own rejected thoughts they come
back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Great works of art have no more affecting lesson
for us than this. They teach us to abide by our
spontaneous impression with good-humoured
inflexibility, then most when the cry of voices
is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger
will say with masterly good sense precisely what
we have thought and felt all the time, and we
shall be forced to take with same our opinion
from another. --Emerson
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The danger is not that loyalties are divided
today but that they may be undivided tomorrow. .
. . I would urge each individual to avoid total
involve- ment in any organization to seek to
whatever extent lies within his power to limit
each group to the minimum control necessary for
performance of essential functions to struggle
against the effort to absorb to lend his
energies to many organizations and give himself
completely to none to teach children,in the
home and in the school, "to be laws unto
themselves and to depend on themselves," as Walt
Whitman urged us many years ago--for that is the
well source of the Independent spirit. --Clark
Kerr, creator and chancellor of the UC system.
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NONCONFORMISMone must not followthe
conventional paths in life.

Robert Frost, The Road not Taken
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most of Walt Whitmans "Song of Myself" has to
do not with the self searching for a final
identity but with the self escaping a series of
identities which threaten to destroy its lively
and various spontaneity
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• Where the old capitalist had a rock glint, "I'm a
  crazy old bastard," he would confide to any
  reporter, thinking of his ability to water the
  stock of widows and head the drive to distribute
  Christmas packages to the poor, proud of every
  paradox in him, as if in the boil of his
  contradictions were the soups and nutrients of
  his strength, so his son was a dull-eyed
  presence, a servant of reason-contradictions as
  odious to him as words of filth before a table of
  the immaculate conception.
• -Norman Mailer
• Here we see a semi-Romantic view the old
  capitalist may have been nasty and immoral but he
  was an individual his son is a nonentity,
  dull-eyed, a servant of reason. (Emerson
  though would not have agreed that an immoral self
  was authentic. Nature is good, he thought. But
  the idea that its better to be a bad oneself
  than a good imitation of someone else is
  persistent in Romantics after Emerson.)

John D. Rockefeller
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• Hart, a reader of NR from the start and a
  on-andoff staffer since 1969, knew and worked
  with most of these old lions of the right his
  nostalgic yearning for the days of irrepressible,
  unique characters is palpable. (Check out Harts
  accounts of Kendalls drunken late-night calls to
  Yales dean demanding his tenure be bought out,
  or his speeding the wrong way down California
  freeways.) Love them or hate them, these fellows
  were originals, not well suited to building up or
  following any party line. Thats one reason
  youll hardly hear about them in the magazine
  these days. Over the years National Review became
  more and more a GOP salesman, cementing the
  Burnham attitude that NR must stand for the most
  conservative electable candidate, must always
  plump for the possible, must never stand
  outrageously outside the status quo.
• Even conservatives hunger for individualism

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• You shall not look through my eyes either, nor
  take things from me,
• You shall listen to all sides and filter them
  from your self.
• Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

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Ordinary work suppresses individuality
?For more on this theme, see any Dilbert cartoon
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A classic film on this theme is Charlie Chaplins
Modern Times where Charlie gets caught in the
cogs and wheels of industrialization
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Traditional family/gender roles suppress
individuality
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Traditional roles repress sexuality
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Traditional roles repress joy and spontaneity
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You will lose touch with your intuition Your
imagination will wither.
To dream magnificently is not a gift given to
all men, and even for those who possess it, it
runs a strong risk of being progressively
diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of
modern life and by the restlessness engendered
by material progress. The ability to dream is a
divine and mysterious ability because it is
through dreams that man communicates with the
shadowy world which surrounds him. But this
power needs solitude to develop freely the more
one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream
fully, deeply. --Charles Baudelaire
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Success in dealing with the world as it is
inevitably diminishes the ability to imagine it
as it might be. --Thomas Carlyle
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It reminded me of how children always thought too
big how the world tackled and chiseled them to
keep them safe. Certainly safe is what I am
now-or am supposed to be. Safety is in me, holds
me straight, like a spine. My blood travels no
new routes, simply knows its way, lingers, grows
drowsy and fond. Though there are times..in the
small city where we live, when Ive left my
husband for a late walk, the moon out hanging
upside down like some garish, show-offy bird,
like some fantastical mistake-what life of
offices and dull tasks could have a moon in it
flooding the sky and streets, without its seeming
preposterous-and in my walks, toward the silent
corners, the cold mulchy smells, the treetops
suddenly waving in the wind, Ive felt an old
wildness again. Revenant and drunken. It isnt
sexual, not really. It has more to do with
adventure and escape, like a boys desire to run
away, revving thwartedly like a wish, twisting in
me like a bolt, some shadow fastened at the feet
and gunning for the rest, though, finally, it
has always stayed to one side, as it were some
other impossible life and knew it, like a good
dog, good dog. It has always stayed. --Lorrie
Moore, From the Frog Hospital
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• You must shock the Bourgeois.
• (Il faut epater
• le bourgeois.)
• Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), French poet

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The shock of the new
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• Lige and I, reflecting a new generation,
  had--before 1970-- grown our locks, donning those
  fashionable breeches of the time, bell bottoms.
  No longer did I have what Whitman called "the
  blanched, shaved face of an orthodox citizen."
  Lige's long hair, a feared symbol to
  conservatives who worried about too much likening
  of males and females, fell in sunny blondness
  over his shoulders. As he walked proudly past
  straight-identified hard-hats mending Manhattan
  streets, I noted with satisfaction that many
  would cruise him, thinking, it appeared, the
  unthinkable.
• Jack Nichols, gay liberation pioneer

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Turn of the century lesbians Acting like men and
(at left) Dressing like them.
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An early 20th century painting advocating the
shocking idea that women artists should get to
study from live nude models too.
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She shocked America by getting a sex-change
operation
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Brigitte Bardot, on the right, was shocking and
disreputable to the American middle-class
because she was openly sexual and not in the
least demure.
bad girls
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The sexuality of some women Was so shocking that
they were Invisible.
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• Interracial sex was definitely not okay--its
  tabu.

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• During the 50s 92 of Americans in the north
  and
• 99 in the south approved of laws banning
  marriage
• Between whites and non-whites. As late as the
  mid-
• Sixties, more than half of northern whites and
  over
• 3/4 of southern whites still opposed interracial
• Marriage.
• Elaine Tyler May, Homeward Bound

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The attempts in the 50s to publish Lady
Chatterleys Lover and Ulysses led to legal
prosecution and law suits which
eventually allowed for greater freedom to publish
erotic material.
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1. The high value put on emotion
2. The serendipitous, unplannable, nature of
   experience
3. Openness to experience of whatever sort
4. Living for the moment, for brief hours

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What got Ulysses into trouble was the ending
where Molly Bloom is lying in bed thinking about
her husband, her sexual experiences, bodily
functions. . . "...I was a Flower of the
mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like
the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red
yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall
and I thought well as well him as another and
then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes
and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my
mountain flower and first I put my arms around
him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel
my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was
going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes. "
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• It is out of this passage, it seems to me now -
  like a down-to-earth goddess out of ocean
• weather - that Molly Bloom arises. From here on,
  the woman of fractions comes together
• with her plump arms, her wild dreams, her
  underwear thrown around her bedroom, her
• dead baby son, her downright sexuality and wilful
  fantasies, Molly breaks the mould. The
• milkwoman, who is a sign for the frozen symbolism
  of national Ireland, reminds Stephen
• of the lowly form of an immortal. Joyce reverses
  the sign. He makes Molly the immortal
• form of lowliness. She is fearless, profane,
  disrespectful of known authorities. As such,
• she marks an extraordinary liberation from the
  rigid diagrams of womanhood Joyce
• sensed in his own culture. She also signposts his
  own freedom from the expectations
• which might be imposed on a national writer. . .
  Molly Bloom . . .is at the centre of
• Ulysses and she has lived into the future. Not
  her own future, of course, because her
• soliloquy in no sense promises that. On the
  contrary, there is something bleak and heart-
• stopping at times in her memories and
  acceptances. But, in the wider sense, she has
• lived into the future of the country and the city
  she comes from. Molly Bloom's soliloquy
• is now part of the consciousness of a country
  which once could no more have
• accommodated her than it could have tolerated
  her restless creator. As the mark of
• his freedom she is an important figure. As the
  sign of ours, she is a beloved one.

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My two-year old can paint better than that. A
commonly- heard reaction to a painting style one
didnt under- stand.
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Elvis the Pelvis was not allowed to be
shown below the waist when he appeared on Ed
Sullivans TV show. His gyrations were thought
to be too sexually suggestive for middle class
teenagers to see.
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If mom dad drink, Ill shock them by doing my
own drugs. But time passes, cultures adjust And
before you know it. . .
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prime time!
Suburban mom becomes neighborhood pot dealer?
Notice which side The City Council is On now
Will she be the worlds most popular soccer mom
or what? Can Mrs. Botwin bring the snacks
again, please?
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In 1948 Norman Mailer published the novel that
made him famous The Naked and the Dead . It was
a realistic work depicting soldiers in World War
II. Mailer wished to show them using the kind of
language Tthat soldiers in fact used. He said
that he couldnt possibly have a soldier respond
to the violent death of his buddy with Oh
fiddlesticks! So he used the word fuck where
soldiers would have used it, but his publishers
forced Mailer to use the euphemism "fug" in lieu
of "fuck". Mailer's version of a subsequent
incident follows
shocking language
". . . The word has been a source of great
embarrassment to me over the years because, you
know, Talullah Bankhead's press agent, many years
ago, got a story in the papers which went..."Oh,
hello, you're Norman Mailer," said Talullah
Bankhead allegedly, "You're the young man that
doesn't know how to spell..." You know, the
four-letter word was indicated with all sorts of
asterisks... I thought she Bankhead should have
hired a publicity man who had a better sense of
fair play."
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Twenty years later, there appeared this notorious
group
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In the late 60s, comedian George Carlin got in
some serious trouble with a routine called Seven
Words You Cant Use on Television. Pacifica
Radio was not allowed to let him use this bit
over the air which led to a landmark lawsuit over
what was acceptable on the public airwaves.
See next slide for a sample
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There are some people who would have you not use
certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in
the English language, and there are seven of
them that you can't say on television. What a
ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really
be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be
separated from a group that large. All of you
over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what
they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad
word.' 'Awwww.' There are no bad words. Bad
thoughts. Bad Intentions. And words, you know
the seven don't you? Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt,
Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits, Those are
the heavy seven. Those are the ones that will
infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the
country from winning the war. . . There are some
two-way words. There are double- meaning words
like prick. It's okay if it happens to your
finger. Yes, you can prick your finger, but
don't finger your prick. No, no."
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By now, things have loosened a bit On an
episode of South Park called Raisins, Comedy
Centrals Standards and Practices dept. allowed
the use of the word cunt (in a way) over the
air, because Stan asked Jimmy, who has a speech
problem to tell Wendy she is the continuing
source of his inspiration. Jimmy Hey
W-W-Wendy, S-Stan says tha-that Youre a c- a cu-
a cunt-a cun Wendy, Well, tell Stan to fuck
off! Jimmy A continuing s-s-source of
in-inspiration Standards and Practices apparently
had no problem with the word fuck.
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Allen Ginsberg Neil Cassady Beat Icons
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English Teddy Boys from the early 60s
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They scandalized adults with their long
hair. Seriously.
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• But, in a few years. . .

Four years later
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The female version of the Beatles looked like
this.
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The female counterculture version
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For after having observed thousands of Oxford
students, and seeing certain fashion mistakes
being made repeatedly, I have come to the
conclusion that there is one general course
Oxford should require all of its students to
take Fashion Etiquette 101. But, alas, this
course is not available to students not even as
an elective. Hence, I have taken it upon myself
to draw your attention to certain don'ts' of
which you may inadvertently be falling foul via
a brief instruction. Our first lesson is a
numerical study in the ratio of skin to clothes.
Micro-mini skirts, low-cut tops, backless dresses
all of these items can look good, but not if
worn simultaneously. Your amazing legs will not
be as noticeable in a miniskirt if the rest of
your body is naked as well. The trick is to show
off just one strategic part of your body.
Suggestiveness is much sexier than being
completely naked don't ruin the mystery by
baring it all too soon. --advice from a
coed in 2005
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• Well, you walk into the room
• like a camel and then you
• frown
• You put your eyes in
• your pocket and your nose on
• the ground-- There ought to be
• a law against you comin' around
• You should be made to wear
• earphones because something
• is happening here but you don't
• know what it is,
• Do you, Mister Jones?
• --Bob Dylan, Ballad of a Thin Man 1965

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1967 The Human Be-In
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To freak out was to lose it, to go
temporarily nuts, to have hysterics. Parents
were always freaking out over their kids
hair and dress and music, drug use and sexual
behavior. Freak was also one of the preferred
terms for someone who was part of
the Counterculture, a hippie. A freak would
call himself a freak, but would never refer to
himself as a Hippie.
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Wedding in New Buffalo
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Were all born naked, Honey--after that, Its
all drag. --RuPaul, famous Drag queen
"If they hate you in drag, they're probably going
to hate you out of drag too - you're the same
person both ways, except when you're in a dress
you have more attitude, ---Queen Kaluha Ice,
drag queen
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Robert Mapplethorpe Broke taboos On
photographing The nude male Body as a
sexual Object as well As by depicting Interracial
gay Couples.
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Guess who?
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White gauze Is it too obvious to see this as
a metaphor for the creative soul
being smothered by conformity?
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In 1989 Andres Serrano caused a huge uproar over
this work called Piss Christ, which was a
photo of a crucifix submerged in a jar of the
artists urine. Detractors accused Serrano of
blasphemy and others defended it on grounds of
artistic freedom. On the floor of the
United States Senate, Senators Al D'Amato and
Jesse Helms expressed outrage that the piece was
supported by the National Endowment for the
Arts, since it is a federal taxpayer-financed ins
titution. Surprisingly, the art critic and
Catholic Nun Sister Wendy Beckett voiced her
approval of Piss Christ whose public exhibition
offended all conservative, most moderate and
even some liberal Catholics.
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Self-development
The most important thing in life is to develop
the talents Nature gave you
Being different just to shock is not what
Romantics advocate but one must be willing to
shock if that is what it takes to become who you
really are, to fully develop ones talents.
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REJECT the TYRANNY of the FUTURE
Dont postpone living now for the sake of some
future goal. Seize the day Gather ye
rosebuds while ye may. Dont be cautious live
in the moment.

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Pleasantville Bill says to Bud, referring to
the fact that the one thing he really enjoys is
painting the Christmas scenes on the Malt Shop
windows Why should I have to wait all year long
for one moment that I really enjoy? Whats the
point of that? Bud So people can get their
hamburgers! The work ethic requires deferred (or
possibly no) gratification.
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"the emancipation of the present tense, which
now informs every new product or advertisement,
is a deceptively radical force. It undermines
the authority of work, school, church and
family, which all demand that we subordinate the
present to the future."
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Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig My candle
burns at both ends It will not last the
night But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It
gives a lovely light. . .
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In 1915, The Dean of Women at the University Of
Wisconsin lamented the tidal wave of
irresponsible joyousness that had apparently
swept over the campus. Here is the Puritan Ethic
speaking If one is to have joy, it must be
responsible joy.
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• For me, the principal fact of life is the free
  mind. For good and evil, man is a free creative
  spirit. This produces the very queer world we
  live in, a world in continuous creation and
  therefore continuous change and insecurity. A
  perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous
  one, full of tragedy and injustice. A world in
  everlasting conflict between the new idea and the
  old allegiances, new arts and new inventions
  against the old establishment.
• Joyce Cary (1888-1957), British author.

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• It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the
  martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk
  without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on
  virtue, as you wish.
• Charles Baudelaire (1821?1867),

Or maybe on sex, drugs, rock n roll
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• Do not consider present time as clock tme, but
  rather as a timeless moment when all aremutually
  engaged in experiencing an experience, the
  outcome of which is yet unknown. You're right
  there. You're connected and you don't know what's
  going to happen and that's where the excitement
  is and that's where the spontaneity is and that's
  where the vitality is and that's where the joy is
• --Viola Spolin, the mother of
  Improvisational Theatre

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• It is stupid to pile up treasures that we can
  enjoy only in old age, when we have lost the
  capacity or enjoyment. Better to seize the moment
  as it comes, to dwell in it intensely, even at
  the cost of future suffering.
• Malcolm Cowley

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Contrast 7 Live for today or live for tomorrow?

• Romantics live for today
• Puritans live for tomorrow (salvation)
• Ben Franklin live for tomorrow (worldly
• success

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Live life to the full
Be open Be sensual Be unafraid Seize the day
"I only regret, in my chilled old age, certain
occasions and possibilities I didnt embrace."
--Henry James to Hugh Walpole
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• Of all the emotions celebrated by the Romantics,
  the most popular was love. Although the great
  Romantic works often center on terror or rage,
  the motive force behind these passions is most
  often a relationship between a pair of lovers. In
  the classical world love had been more or less
  identical with sex, the Romans treating it in a
  particularly cynical manner. The Medieval
  troubadours had celebrated courtly adultery
  according to a highly artificial code that little
  reflected the lives of real men and women while
  agreeing with physicians that romantic passion
  was a potentially fatal disease. It was the
  romantics who first celebrated romantic love as
  the natural birthright of every human being, the
  most exalted of human sentiments, and the
  necessary foundation of a successful marriage.

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• The transcendent, irrational, self-destructive
  passion of a Romeo and Juliet came to be
  considered the birthright of every European and
  American citizen but this conviction which
  continues to shape much of our thinking about
  relationships, marriage, and the family found its
  mature form during the Romantic age. So
  thoroughly has love become identified with
  romance that the two are now generally taken as
  synonyms, disregarding the earlier associations
  of "romance" with adventure, terror, and
  mysticism.

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• It is stupid to pile up treasures that we can
  enjoy only in old age, when we have lost the
  capacity or enjoyment. Better to seize the moment
  as it comes, to dwell in it intensely, even at
  the cost of future suffering.
• Malcolm Cowley

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Although artistic revolt, radical politics and
the need to escape from Philistine America
accurately characterized the Village leadership,
the prime element attracting many to the Village
was more mundane...the Village offered a new
sexual freedom to those who lived there. Just as
in the youth revolt of the 1960s, sexual
experimentation was as vital a component of
intellectual and
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social release as was a new political
consciousness. . . Much of polite scholarship
has also obscured the Fact that it was the woman
feminist residents of the village who pioneered
and led this sexual rebellion.. . .we should
remember that it took more courage, in the teens
and for a woman, to advocate free love than it
took to preach social revolution. Mary
Heaton Vorse
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Contrast 8 live life to the full or
not? Romantics Live life to the full Puritans
Repress your nature, for much of it is
evil Freud Some repression of sexual instincts
is necessary for people to live in society. A
society in which everyone sought pleasure at all
times would be impossible. This means that
civilized people can never be truly happy.
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REJECT the WORK ETHIC
Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, encouraging his
followers not to worry about their worldly
needs Why take ye thought for raiment?
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow
they toil not, neither do they spin. And yet I
say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one of these.
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• art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself
  bodily above necessity and neediness for art is
  the daughter of freedom, and it requires its
  prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the
  necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.
  But in our day it is necessity, neediness, that
  prevails, and bends a degraded humanity under its
  iron yoke. Utility is the great idol of the time,
  to which all powers do homage and all subjects
  are subservient. In this great balance of
  utility, the spiritual service of art has no
  weight, and, deprived of all encouragement, it
  vanishes from the noisy Vanity Fair of our time.

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In data collected by Alfred Kinsey in the 50s
we find that both men and women widely believed
that providing sexual pleasure for ones
spouse Is a central requirement for a happy
marriage. According to marriage manuals, sexual
technique Was an important thing to acquire,
something Akin to a sex as work ethic. Nothing
could be farther from Romanticism than to make a
duty out of sex. --Elaine Tyler May,
Homeward Bound, p. 117
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"I never wrote for money. . . ," she says. "I've
always written for the joy of it. . .Diane di
Prima
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art was still looked upon by mother and father,
aunt and uncle, the grocer-the Common Man- as a
way of escaping the reasonableness of working
for a living. What stuck in the Common Craw was
the passion of art, its thrills and leaps of the
imagination. Larry Rivers, avant-garde
painter and musician
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• Thoreau claimed that there was no
• time when he was at Walden Pond.
• His days at Walden are such that he
• can sit rapt in a revery, amidst the pines...
• in undisturbed solitude and stillness...
• his time there is not segmented into
• hours and fretted by the ticking of a
• clock. he said that he grew like corn
• by sitting on his doorstep from dawn
• to noon, too busy to engage in work of
• head or hand

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• And this natural unclocked time is not "idleness"
  in the sense that the men of the village, the Ben
  Franklins would understand it, and condemn it
  for being so. It is rather the best possible use
  of time. It's one's own time, unsold to anyone
  else, undevoted to the chores of the world, it's
  a sacred chunk of one's life, which is nothing
  but time, so one better be careful how one spends
  it.
• Thoreau, walden

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Matisse simply refused to get a job, or to be
anything but a painter. The once or twice he
considered it, when things were truly desperate,
his wife Dissuaded himshe believed he was a
painter too. He never got a day job, he never
did what practical people would do, paint in
his spare time.
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• Contrast 9
• Make sure your kids have plenty of enriching
  things
• to do during the summer violin lessons, camp,
  summer
• school. Fill up their time so they dont waste
  it. If you dont,
• theyll fall behind in the race to get to
  Harvard.
• Let your kids loaf and lie under trees during the
  summer.
• Let them be children.

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REJECT ELITISMbe a democrat
1. We all have a Natural genius, we are all
worthwhile. No one exists simply to serve someone
else. 2. Ones worth is inborn it is not
measured by ones social status or wealth or race
or gender. 3. Insist that your life matters and
is not to be lightly thrown away or wasted.
.
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Do you know so much that you call the meanest
ignorant? Do you suppose you have a right to a
good sight, and he or she has no right to a
sight? Do you think matter has cohered
together From its diffuse float, and the soils on
the Surface, and water runs, and vegetation
sprouts For you only and not for him and
her? --Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric
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"Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the
son Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating,
drinking, and breeding No sentimentalist, no
stander above men and women or apart from them
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• one aspect of Romanticism
• the belief that products of the uncultivated
  popular imagination could equal or even surpass
  those of the educated court poets and composers
  who had previously monopolized the attentions of
  scholars and connoisseurs.
• Whereas during much of the 17th and 18th
  centuries learned allusions, complexity and
  grandiosity were prized, the new romantic taste
  favored simplicity and naturalness and these
  were thought to flow most clearly and abundantly
  from the "spontaneous" outpourings of the
  untutored common people.

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Contrast 10

• Romantics we are all equally unique and valuable
  individuals.
• Puritans some of us are the Elect and will go to
  Heaven some are not.
• Franklin some of us can be successful some are
  lazy and cant
• Rand some few individuals are Geniuses
• Racists white people are superior to people of
  color
• Sexists men are superior to women
• Patriots people of my country are superior to
  people of your country.