Living in a World That Can't Be Fixed : Re-Imagining Counterculture Today

At a time when we've damanged the environment beyond repair, and we can no longer trust our politicians to save us, this book argues for the crucial importance of establishing new countercultures to start living in the world we want . . . now

"This is a book about counterculture, and that's a problem . . . " So begins Curtis White's thrilling call for the revitalization of counterculture today.

The problem, White argues, is twofold: most people think of counterculture as a phenomenon stuck in the 1960s, and what passes as counterculture today . . . simply isn't. But in reality, counterculture is our only hope to save the planet, bypass partisan gridlock, and create the world we actually want to live in.

White--"the most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment" (Elle)--shows how the products of our so-called resistance, from Ken Burns to Black Panther, rarely offer a meaningful challenge to power, and how our own patterns of consumption keep us from making any real social change. The result is an inspiring case for practicing civil disobedience as a way of life, and a vision for a better world--full of play, caring, and human connection.