Revolutionary euphoria can function like a drug with a dangerous comedown

Evidence

For some of them, the horrible comedown, the plunge into depression that came after things did not work out, was something like a hangover. You can get yourself all fucked up on revolutionary élan, just like you can drink alcohol or take drugs. But it warps your senses and causes you to make poor decisions. It isn’t real, and you’re going to pay for it later. If you want the feeling of mass ecstasy you should go to a music festival instead of encouraging vulnerable young people to go out and get killed. Indeed, it seems you can probably draw a line from the ethos of the New Left and the arrival of Woodstock, and then, ultimately, to Coachella. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 913

Categorization

• XREF: The line from New Left ethos to Woodstock to Coachella echoes the retreat into identity/personal experience traced in earlier chapters. — connects to: Power is an addictive drug that shifts from serving dreams to serving itself. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 96; Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116; A single vivid individual can seize and exaggerate a mass’s existing mood
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• Schizophrenic disjunction as cultural style loses its morbid content and yields euphoria. #expands (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 116
• A single vivid individual can seize and exaggerate a mass’s existing mood #corroborates (0.75)