It is by no means everything that happened or that I learned. I could never get that down on paper. Language is one of the first things to go. Nobody communicates with words anymore. Words have lost their ability to shock and make love.
Language prevents communication.
To move beyond the limits of language and explanation, the yippies sought to create a new set of myths, codes and signifiers for the new order. Ironically, as they tried to fashion a language of protest uncontaminated by the traditional rhetoric and conventions of leftist politics, the language of mainstream consumer culture crept in. This new sixties politics reveled in blurring the distinctions between the counterculture and straight' society. LBJ was dropping out of politics. Oh, fuck,' we moaned.