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The Antifada

Armed Love 3 - Black Mask w/ Ben Morea (part 2 preview)

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

Music, Arts

4.2970 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of our interview ben tells us more about his affinity for indigenous struggle, why he moved back to NY, his views on COVID mandates and public health, his hatred of Jerry Rubin, and if he beat up the MC5.

In the spirit of the Motherfuckers, the full episode is available FREE at patreon.com/theantifada... but while you're there, why not support the show for the rest of our bonus content and access to our discord commune!

check out ben's art: https://www.instagram.com/ben_morea/?hl=en

Transcript

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0:18.7

I mean I think there's an interesting I'm curious to get back maybe to the historical trajectory where it's like so you have the 70s and there's this fragmentation that happens of the 60s youth cultural movement as maybe it becomes consumerist or as you know the war ends etc and these various things sort of happen but then by the 80s you have this kind of yuppification of,

0:27.0

you know, the 60s kind of era.

0:31.0

And you have people like Jerry Rubin or Stewart Brand or others like making a lot of money and kind of thinking that like the

0:38.4

Jerry Rubin was as the as a $3 bill.

0:47.0

Like, I'll give you an example.

0:49.0

One time we had a riot on the street on Lower East Side. It was a Saturday night so Sunday morning you

0:57.5

could get the Sunday times. So here comes Jerry Rubin and Abbey Hopin got their Sunday Times and they all of a sudden passed this

1:05.7

riot on the street. Jerry Rubin took his New York Times and ran home. Abby Hoffman joined

1:12.4

the riot.

1:15.0

Right. But I mean... That'll tell you something right there about happy Hopin.

1:20.0

And then he became a stockbroker.

1:22.0

Right, that's what I'm kind of trying to think about or get at.

1:24.1

So in the 60s, you have this kind of peer pressure,

1:27.0

social pressure, that people should participate

1:30.2

in some kind of subversive countercultural movement but by the 80s that same peer pressure

1:37.6

is now funneling you into like a financial success or something and...

1:43.0

No, you're funneling yourself into it.

1:45.0

You're allowing yourself to be sucked into it.

1:48.0

So you could be comfortable and you could receive remuneration.

1:57.0

Do you think that was just with people's age,

1:59.6

you know, as this kind of youth movement got older?

2:01.9

Or was it political or psychological what what

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