10 Years Ago - Boing Boing: The Anarchist Cookbook
Via @BoingBoing a great look back at a retrospective on the Anarchist Cookbook. The 20/20 perspective (read: maturity) offered by the author of this iconic counter-culture tomb is pretty fascinating.
The Anarchist Cookbook was written during 1968 and part of 1969 soon after I graduated from high school. At the time, I was 19 years old and the Vietnam War and the so-called “counter culture movement” were at their height. I was involved in the anti-war movement and attended numerous peace rallies and demonstrations. The book, in many respects, was a misguided product of my adolescent anger at the prospect of being drafted and sent to Vietnam to fight in a war that I did not believe in.
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The central idea to the book was that violence is an acceptable means to bring about political change. I no longer agree with this.
