America Has Become a War Machine—and It Has Destroyed Our Ability to Function as a Democracy @alternet

America Has Become a War Machine—and It Has Destroyed Our Ability to Function as a Democracy @alternet: “Violence abroad breeds violence at home. On successive days recently, I saw two museum shows that caught something of a lost American world and seemed eerily relevant in the Age of Trump.  The first, “Hippie Modernism,” an exploration of the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s (heavy on psychedelic posters), was appropriately enough at the Berkeley Art Museum.  To my surprise, it also included a few artifacts from a movement crucial to my own not-especially-countercultural version of those years: the vast&n