Summary
[...] approximately between the release of "Sergeant Pepper" in 1967 and that of Star Wars a decade later, our culture saw a stunning reversal The official became for all practical purposes unofficial-that is, a merely private and voluntary indulgence for the few who continued to entertain a masochistic taste for self-denial-while the unofficial went public and official, becoming the new credo of the majority. The new pirates maybe at the end of the world-in more ways than one, some would say-but it is meant to be our world, since there is no other.\n "For the rare child who doesn't already think he's a pirate, the company provides the necessary props: scofflaw name (Angry Alex, Insane Ishmael), gold hoop earring, Vegas-style vest, painted body art of a mustache (curly, straight, or mean), scar, skull and crossbones, etc."
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Making It Official
TWO RECENT ANNIVERSARIES-the 40th of the Beatles' album, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and the 30th of Star Wars-and their attendant hoopla remind us of the extent to which the unofficial culture has become official since-well, since approximately "Sergeant Pepper." As Robert Sandall put it in the London Sunday Times:
This was the moment when anybody under 25 knew that the value system with which they [sic] had grown up was history. Caution, sexual reticence,...See the full content of this document
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