Life is interesting.
What the counterculture does not need is positivism, that is done and over. Counterculture needs paradox, the management of conflicting statements, something that is Mark Dery's strong point. You can like something, but also dis it. This is what mixing is about, it's not about selecting only the positive things, because that is so bland. We need a death trip of equal good and bad, not turning the blind eye to stuff that doesn't fit into our current overdated cyber-paradigm.