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Thus I don't think that "the" counterculture even offered us new ways of thinking about old conundrums. Economic warfare, natural abundance, the stream and interconnectedness of data, stories, cultures and all... they all appear the same when seen from the prespective of systems thinking, of ecology, of environmentalism etc. Which is obviously a prerequisite to first merge, then substitute the topics of societal and individual liberation (i.e., the liberation of people) and the different topic of "freeing the minds", "information wants to be free", and widening the personal horizons" (i.e., the Capitalism-affine and Capitalism-supporting creation of the online sphere since the late 1960s).

Not only did the #counterculture not provide alternatives, they provided all the conceptual and technical means to harden, broaden, and put in into overdrive extractive Capitalism. (No #globalisation without the web.) And I'm not even talking right now how 50 years old images of small town "soft technolgy" are all there is to guide our current understanding of how to turn sustainable whole societies, their economies, industries, and infrastructures. Use these old images, no harm in that, just scale'em up, baby. #ecocolonialism is the least of the consequences that result from that approach.