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Scottish Culture
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Whilst wishing to be associated with the current renaissance in Scottish art, I am actually a recessionist and have only joined to see if that's where the real money is.
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The counter-culture was global - or so we thought. For the first time we felt in touch with California and Paris, Poland and India and together we would change the world. Even Edinburgh would move to a more open and humane and anarchic direction. It and we would be a tonic to the nation and the very idea of 'nation' would become irrelevant.
Scottish culture believed itself to be 'European' but surely it gloried in a powerful insularity too. And that was all to be moribund, this was a brave new
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― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000
― Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000