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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
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A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
No such problems are to be found in fascistic societies, such as in Spain and Portugal: whatever countercultures exist in such countries are readily identifiable when they are not completely underground. It is only in the relatively democratic nations that the nature of the counterculture is elusive. (We may wonder if there is, for instance, a Portuguese counterculture; but once we find it, its nature and direction are clear. The opposite problem exists in a democracy: we know there is a counterculture, but its direction is obscure.) The process which obscures the counterculture is one that resides at the heart of any democratic system: co-optation. --Jim Hougan, see The 1960s never occurred in Spain

Fernando Ribeiro de Mello

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