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			*In 1951, McLuhan conceived his first book, The Mechanical Bride, as an attempt to train readers’ senses to resist commercial propaganda
	*The perceptual politics animating Happenings, on the other hand, led away from the collective political action of the New Left and toward the individual psyche as the source of social change.		*The perceptual politics animating Happenings, on the other hand, led away from the collective political action of the New Left and toward the individual psyche as the source of social change.
	*In 1962, a group of college students calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, and drafted a statement that put the political case succinctly. An American government that had permitted racism, poverty, and the development of the atom bomb could not be trusted, they suggested, but it could be changed.		*In 1962, a group of college students calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, and drafted a statement that put the political case succinctly. An American government that had permitted racism, poverty, and the development of the atom bomb could not be trusted, they suggested, but it could be changed.

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			*The perceptual politics animating Happenings, on the other hand, led away from the collective political action of the New Left and toward the individual psyche as the source of social change.
	*In 1962, a group of college students calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, and drafted a statement that put the political case succinctly. An American government that had permitted racism, poverty, and the development of the atom bomb could not be trusted, they suggested, but it could be changed.		*In 1962, a group of college students calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, and drafted a statement that put the political case succinctly. An American government that had permitted racism, poverty, and the development of the atom bomb could not be trusted, they suggested, but it could be changed.
	*Happenings use special devices to overcome communication barriers in a manipulated consumer society, in an age of TV addiction, public relations credibility gap, mass propaganda techniques marketing everything from pollutants to genocidal imperialist wars such as in Vietnam. In such a context, a re-education of audience perceptions, a depollution of senses, is most urgent.		*Happenings use special devices to overcome communication barriers in a manipulated consumer society, in an age of TV addiction, public relations credibility gap, mass propaganda techniques marketing everything from pollutants to genocidal imperialist wars such as in Vietnam. In such a context, a re-education of audience perceptions, a depollution of senses, is most urgent.

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			*In 1962, a group of college students calling themselves Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) gathered in Port Huron, Michigan, and drafted a statement that put the political case succinctly. An American government that had permitted racism, poverty, and the development of the atom bomb could not be trusted, they suggested, but it could be changed.
	*Happenings use special devices to overcome communication barriers in a manipulated consumer society, in an age of TV addiction, public relations credibility gap, mass propaganda techniques marketing everything from pollutants to genocidal imperialist wars such as in Vietnam. In such a context, a re-education of audience perceptions, a depollution of senses, is most urgent.		*Happenings use special devices to overcome communication barriers in a manipulated consumer society, in an age of TV addiction, public relations credibility gap, mass propaganda techniques marketing everything from pollutants to genocidal imperialist wars such as in Vietnam. In such a context, a re-education of audience perceptions, a depollution of senses, is most urgent.
	*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.		*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.

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			*Happenings use special devices to overcome communication barriers in a manipulated consumer society, in an age of TV addiction, public relations credibility gap, mass propaganda techniques marketing everything from pollutants to genocidal imperialist wars such as in Vietnam. In such a context, a re-education of audience perceptions, a depollution of senses, is most urgent.
	*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.		*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.
	*A few years later, performance theorist Richard Schechner argued that “just as pop art has made us somewhat immune to certain kinds of advertising, so, perhaps, we become somewhat immune to other forms of mass persuasion after participating in a Happening.		*A few years later, performance theorist Richard Schechner argued that “just as pop art has made us somewhat immune to certain kinds of advertising, so, perhaps, we become somewhat immune to other forms of mass persuasion after participating in a Happening.

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	*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.		*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.
			*A few years later, performance theorist Richard Schechner argued that “just as pop art has made us somewhat immune to certain kinds of advertising, so, perhaps, we become somewhat immune to other forms of mass persuasion after participating in a Happening.
	*Not only did he recommend the creation of soundscapes without linearity or structured climax, but he urged the physical separation of performers. Pulling them apart, he explained, facilitated their independence and allowed individual sounds to emerge “from their own centers.” Lest a recently de-Nazified German audience underestimate the political implications of this auditory model, Cage not so subtly reminded them that “There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they’ll act like sheep rather than nobly.”		*Not only did he recommend the creation of soundscapes without linearity or structured climax, but he urged the physical separation of performers. Pulling them apart, he explained, facilitated their independence and allowed individual sounds to emerge “from their own centers.” Lest a recently de-Nazified German audience underestimate the political implications of this auditory model, Cage not so subtly reminded them that “There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they’ll act like sheep rather than nobly.”
	*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.		*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.

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			*In 1962, Susan Sontag hoped Happenings might “stir the modern audience from its cozy emotional anesthesia.
	*Not only did he recommend the creation of soundscapes without linearity or structured climax, but he urged the physical separation of performers. Pulling them apart, he explained, facilitated their independence and allowed individual sounds to emerge “from their own centers.” Lest a recently de-Nazified German audience underestimate the political implications of this auditory model, Cage not so subtly reminded them that “There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they’ll act like sheep rather than nobly.”		*Not only did he recommend the creation of soundscapes without linearity or structured climax, but he urged the physical separation of performers. Pulling them apart, he explained, facilitated their independence and allowed individual sounds to emerge “from their own centers.” Lest a recently de-Nazified German audience underestimate the political implications of this auditory model, Cage not so subtly reminded them that “There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they’ll act like sheep rather than nobly.”
	*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.		*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.

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			*Not only did he recommend the creation of soundscapes without linearity or structured climax, but he urged the physical separation of performers. Pulling them apart, he explained, facilitated their independence and allowed individual sounds to emerge “from their own centers.” Lest a recently de-Nazified German audience underestimate the political implications of this auditory model, Cage not so subtly reminded them that “There is the possibility when people are crowded together that they’ll act like sheep rather than nobly.”
	*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.		*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.
	*Even as they embraced the utopian humanism of earlier decades, many young Americans turned inward, away from campaigns for racial and sexual equality and toward a new psychological politics: the politics of consciousness.		*Even as they embraced the utopian humanism of earlier decades, many young Americans turned inward, away from campaigns for racial and sexual equality and toward a new psychological politics: the politics of consciousness.

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			*'''As Theodore Roszak explained in his 1968 bestseller The Making of a Counter Culture, the young communards of the 1960s, like their parents, assumed that the individual psyche was the ultimate basis of social order and that to change or preserve society, one must engage in “the reformulation of the personality.”2 Yet, unlike their parents, young adults who had come of age in the shadow of the atomic bomb distrusted the state, its experts, and even reason itself. For many young Americans in the early 1940s, to lose oneself in irrational, ecstatic gatherings was to enjoy the forbidden fruits of fascism. For their children in the 1960s counterculture, it was to reject the ostensibly fascist tendencies of their own government. Within the politics of consciousness, the individual reason and the governing institutions of the state mirrored one another: each sought to constrain the otherwise natural, organic, and pleasurable growth of the regions under its control. In order to subvert that control, individuals turned toward media, and especially music, multiscreen images, and light shows, to shut down the analytical mind, awaken the unconscious, and allow individuals to come together in communities organized around a shared state of awareness.''' This is a substitute for deeper internal work - but appears to be a step in the right direction.
	*Even as they embraced the utopian humanism of earlier decades, many young Americans turned inward, away from campaigns for racial and sexual equality and toward a new psychological politics: the politics of consciousness.		*Even as they embraced the utopian humanism of earlier decades, many young Americans turned inward, away from campaigns for racial and sexual equality and toward a new psychological politics: the politics of consciousness.
	*About Cage - When they did, they helped infuse an emerging counterculture with elements of the '''person-centered collectivity''' called for by promoters of democratic morale twenty years before.		*About Cage - When they did, they helped infuse an emerging counterculture with elements of the '''person-centered collectivity''' called for by promoters of democratic morale twenty years before.

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			*Even as they embraced the utopian humanism of earlier decades, many young Americans turned inward, away from campaigns for racial and sexual equality and toward a new psychological politics: the politics of consciousness.
	*About Cage - When they did, they helped infuse an emerging counterculture with elements of the '''person-centered collectivity''' called for by promoters of democratic morale twenty years before.		*About Cage - When they did, they helped infuse an emerging counterculture with elements of the '''person-centered collectivity''' called for by promoters of democratic morale twenty years before.
	*They also took the fusion of Bauhaus aesthetics, Gestalt psychology, and pro-American psychological training born during World War II and turned it to a new purpose: integrating the psyches of our potential enemies, the citizens of the Soviet Union		*They also took the fusion of Bauhaus aesthetics, Gestalt psychology, and pro-American psychological training born during World War II and turned it to a new purpose: integrating the psyches of our potential enemies, the citizens of the Soviet Union

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			*About Cage - When they did, they helped infuse an emerging counterculture with elements of the '''person-centered collectivity''' called for by promoters of democratic morale twenty years before.
	*They also took the fusion of Bauhaus aesthetics, Gestalt psychology, and pro-American psychological training born during World War II and turned it to a new purpose: integrating the psyches of our potential enemies, the citizens of the Soviet Union		*They also took the fusion of Bauhaus aesthetics, Gestalt psychology, and pro-American psychological training born during World War II and turned it to a new purpose: integrating the psyches of our potential enemies, the citizens of the Soviet Union
	*Nowhere was this new kind of democratic person more visible than in the work of Ray and Charles Eames, who had become entranced with the information theories of mathematicians Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener. In 1953 they made a film to introduce the general public to these ideas, entitled A Communications Primer.		*Nowhere was this new kind of democratic person more visible than in the work of Ray and Charles Eames, who had become entranced with the information theories of mathematicians Claude Shannon and Norbert Wiener. In 1953 they made a film to introduce the general public to these ideas, entitled A Communications Primer.