The underbelly

Voltaire had been a critic of religion. Nietzsche, Shaw, and others had written that Victorian surface-morality was hypocritical. Freud wrote that the clandestine unconscious mind could be a caldron of often insalubrious … stuff.

Based on all those prior expositions — suddenly, circa 1970, revelation became the order of the day:

The Selling of the President (1970, Joe McGinniss) — politics
Company (1970, Stephen Sondheim) — marriage
Sexual Politics (1970, Kate Millet) — gender relations
Ball Four (1970, Jim Bouton) — sports
MASH (1970, Robert Altman) — the army
Our Bodies, Ourselves (1970, Boston Women’s Health Book Collective) — somatic repression
The Greening of America (1970, Robert Reich) — American culture
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (1970, David Reuben) — sexuality
Deschooling Society (1971, Ivan Illich) — the schooling system
Technology, the God That Failed: The environmental catastrophe (1971, Dorothy Slusser) — technology, ecology