Writer Curtis White explains why we need counterculture - as people trapped in a dead end of capitalist stagnation and impending ecological collapse, hope for the future won't be found in clinging to the failing structures of this world, but in building and exploring new worlds of our own making. The Romantics might have some pointers.
Curtis is author of Living in a World that Can’t Be Fixed: Reimagining Counterculture Today from Melville House.
Curtis White is a novelist and social critic whose works include Memories of My Father Watching TV, The Middle Mind, and, more recently, The Science Delusion, We Robots, and Lacking Character. His essays have appeared in Harpers, Lapham's Quarterly, Orion, and Tricycle. He is founder (with Ronald Sukenick) of FC2, a publisher of innovative fiction run collectively by its authors. He lives in Port Townsend, WA.