The 1960s backfired:
the celebration of the self’s potentials turned into blinkered narcissism and narrowly focused expansion.
As Suzi Gablik wrote in 1985: “Our one common belief at this point seems to be that no one can be made accountable: any form of limitation is experienced as a prison.”
Now, self-actualization and freedom is construed as the right to fatally infect our national population so long as we never have to experience a moment’s inconvenience via mask, distancing, et. al.
While civil rights and economic autonomy are surrendered without a second thought.