The Beatles were right at the centre of the countercultural revolution, often involuntarily. A story from…

The Beatles were right at the centre of the countercultural revolution, often involuntarily. A story from that time reveals the BS of that revolution. (And still our culture.) McCartney was the driving force in The Beatles. The one who organised and pushed them. 1/4 https://t.co/1haRb5lvpT

After a while this grated on the others, who felt the band needed to be more democratic. So McCartney said OK, that’s fine. Let’s try that. 2/4

And then…nothing. Nothing was happening. Ringo Starr is then reported to have turned to McCartney to ask if he was going to lead them again. Humans never spontaneously self-organise. ‘The people’ is a fiction. They’re always led. 3/4

Even within this nucleus of the countercultural fantasy, we could see firsthand the nonsense of the ideas. And The Beatles themselves of course collapsed not long afterwards. It’s taken countercultural societies many more decades to catch up. /end