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The Dust of Death: The Sixties Counterculture and How It Changed America Forever by Os Guinness. In it, Guinness dissects the American West Coast counter-culture of the 1960s, albeit from a Christian perspective. It's been many years since I last read it, but it is an interesting book. I'm not sure how relevant it is to Peterson's agenda, but it probably has some echoes in today's cultural shifts, even after 50 years.
> I read an older edition of this, and as I recall, it was the greatest "culture" study of the 60's that I have ever read, and it was the greatest work of cultural history that I have ever read, also. Guinness' time with Francis Schaeffer was well-spent and he developed a knack for being able to "read" a movement and understand not just what they believed (philosophy, world-view, politics, etc.) but also where they got their ideas from (influences etc.) and where that group was going. Very few historians and students of culture are capable of doing this these days. He is also brilliant at being able to keep his own views from clouding his views of each group. Not too shabby a skill to have. It's a shame that almost nobody cares about the truth these days, since everybody is just interested in getting their own ideology into power... that or just avoiding the tough questions altogether.
> A book which I have read and reread so many times it is now falling apart. It sets the scene for what has been the dramatic collapse of western culture following the advent of postmodernism. It is a must read for anyone trying to understand how we got where we are.
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